Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SM City Bacoor

=[[SM City Bacoor]]=

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A shopping mall in Philippines that fails WP:N. Unable to find independent WP:RS with no claims of notability as internet search turned up directory type listings and websites of shops within the mall. It was De-PRODed in 2008 with the claims that it was large. Michaela den (talk) 10:47, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. Michaela den (talk) 10:47, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Shopping malls-related deletion discussions. Michaela den (talk) 10:47, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

::@nom, a google search for exact words "SM City Bacoor" produces 165,000 results, are you telling the community that you've checked them ALL and found none, or that you checked a few and then came to the conclusion there were none and nominated this for deletion based on your incomplete search? I find the former hard to believe and I find the latter disingenuous. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

::*I am more than happy for you to prove me wrong. If independent reliable soures can be found please let the AfD know and add them to the article.--Michaela den (talk) 09:24, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

  • Delete, as per nom and WP:NOT DIRECTORY. All other SM Supermalls except the flagship ones should be deleted as well.Rxlxm (talk) 06:34, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Keep until we have a uniform policy on notability of shopping centers otherwise the US-bias, where nearly any shopping mall will have easily findable sufficient coverage in local media to establish notability quickly, whereas such notability-establishing sources no doubt exist for these places as well, it's just that they haven't been found (and are less likely to be easily found). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

::We have a uniform policy on shopping centers, it's found at WP:GNG. I think you mean English language-bias and developed world-bias, rather than US-bias, but that's not a card you can play in AfD. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:03, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

:::Thank you, Mr. Hoyle. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 03:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

::Because you too have checked the 165,000 references?? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 03:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


:Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

:Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


  • Keep -- Article needs a lot of work, though, but I dunno the notability criteria for shopping malls, but if SM Mall of Asia exists, so should this one. –HTD 14:17, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Comment: simply stating that it has lots of internet hits, per WP:GNUM, and there are other articles, per WP:OTHERSTUFF, does not provide an argument on how it passes the notability test, per WP:N, to decide whether a topic should be a standalone article. If there are no independent reliable soures on the topic, then it should not have a separate article.--Michaela den (talk) 09:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

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