WikiProject Shopping Centers, formerly WikiProject Dead Malls, is a project to better organize information in articles related to
shopping centers. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other
Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the
talk page and see the
to-do list there.
WikiProject Shopping Centers exists to better coordinate efforts to enlarge and improve Wikipedia's coverage of notable shopping centers. Specifically, it deals with all articles relating to indoor shopping malls, outdoor shopping centers, and also
dead malls.
Our easiest way to do this is to try and improve an article in the Good Article list, I would suggest
Southdale Center, the first modern "shopping mall" in America!
In Related Areas:
In terms of shopping malls in particular, as of June 22, 2020, I have found three malls that have directly attributed the pandemic to the permanent closure of their business. These malls are
Northgate Mall in Durham, North Carolina,[1]Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix, Arizona,[2] and
Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington.[3]
Lists
Malls
Let's start with our stubs. We have 1,321 stubs within the scope of our project! Help where you can!
Insert more here!
Participants
Active: (active in 2022)
GeekBurst (
talk) 12:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC) - Focused on Shopping Centres in the United Kingdom.reply
Intotheblueagain (
talk) 02:26, 27 May 2022 (UTC) Fairly new to Wikipedia. Here to help out however I can.reply
User:Windyshadow32 (
talk) 23:00, 15 June 2020 (UTC) Interested in expanding articles with as much-cited history as possible, beginning with Alabama and going down the list. Interested in assessing the articles and putting them into proper categories (trying to revive this project!)reply
WM86 (
talk)
WM-86 03:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Had a vivid dream about a young woman with a striking resemblance to
Jessica Stroup from 90210 last night (
November 20,
2008) and I shopping at a mall, so I had to join. I would also like to revert vandalism. :) (Active)reply
MelbourneStar1 (
talk) - Main interests:
Westfield Group shopping centres and Australian / US shopping centres. (will pop in here and there.)
Bouncy Glow 09:24, 11 September 2012 (UTC) (active; awaiting new response!)reply
Saberclaw84 (
talk) 3:52, 20 September 2021 (UTC) Still a little new to Wikipedia editing, but I'm learning, and intend to do as much as I possibly can. Current focus: fixing grammatical errors in articles and editing articles to reflect ownership changes.
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Caldorwards4 05:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC) (left message on talk page.)reply
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talk) 20:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC) Any copy editing tasks. (will leave message on talk page.)reply
Colmiga 11:45, 26 March 2008 (UTC) Knowledge on lots of shopping centres located in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. (left message on talk page.)reply
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Articles about individual malls, especially defunct ones, should take a look primarily at the mall's history. Most reasonable people would not build a retail center like a shopping mall intending for it to fail. Thus the guiding question on these kinds of articles is, "What brought this facility to the state it is in today?"
A few points worth including when writing or refining an article on a shopping mall if sources can be found:
Planning - What was there before? Why did the design take on the attributes it did?
Construction - How long did it take to build? Any problems?
Opening - What was the grand opening like?
Ownership - Who owned/owns it? Were there any changes in ownership?
Renovations - Was the mall ever renovated? When? How many times was it renovated? What was changed? Does a source state why the mall was renovated?
If the mall is a dead mall, the following may also be taken into consideration:
Decline - What factors caused stores to leave the mall? Was it a single event, or a series of events? Was the cause local (e.g. crime in the area, better shopping elsewhere in the town), or outside the local area (e.g. corporate decisions to close stores, especially when an anchor store is closed).
Closure - When did the mall close (if applicable)? What caused the plug to finally be pulled on this mall? Which stores were the last to leave? Did any stores remain open after the mall itself closed?
Disposition - What happened to the mall following its closure? Was it demolished? What replaced it? Does it remain standing and abandoned? Was the mall converted for other non-retail uses?
Ideally, such information should be listed in chronological order.
Similar to the
Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.