Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of shopping malls in North Carolina

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The result was delete. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a bare list with no explanatory text. All the malls are blue links to be sure, but Category:Shopping_malls_in_North_Carolina also exists and seems to serve exactly the same purpose. I'm not sure I see why this list should exist. The talk page doesn't give much support although I note the question has been raised. ++Lar: t/c 15:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as nominator ++Lar: t/c 15:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Indrian 15:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - No reason to have both a list and a category Geoffrey Spear 15:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per existence of the category. Can we Redirect to the category? AdamBiswanger1 15:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I thought this didn't work, previously, but it does seem to now. Follow this link: User:Lar/testRedir... it seems to work. I could be confused though ++Lar: t/c 16:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - duplicates category. If someone wants to find a mall in North Carolina surely they would use the phone book not an encyclopaedia? BlueValour 17:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, category does this already, but I'm unsure why we have the individual articles as it is...were they created from the list, perhaps? Nice Catch-22. -- nae'blis _(talk) 17:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete since it's redundant with the category. I'm also far from convinced that the mere existance of a mall is enough to justify it having an article, but that may be a battle that's not worth fighting. Friday (talk) 17:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment The size/importance of a mall that determines notability on Wikipedia has been debated for quite some time on AFD. The NC list seems to be pretty fleshed out, more so than other states. I created lists for a few states (but not NC) that actually survived AFD a few months back (back then most of them were redlinked), but as most of them have articles created about them, I think they can be replaced with categories if needed. Kirjtc2 17:53, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia is not the North Carolina Yellow Pages -- GWO
• Delete. Per the Yellow Pages comment. The Gecko 11:58, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.