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Post Oak Mall[edit]

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Result: delisted Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • First off, the article has no photos of the mall. It should be trivially easy to get a picture of a mall that is still in operation, but the Free Image Search Tool yielded none. This alone should almost be an instant failure.
  • "Stores" section has an "As of 2009" statement which reads incredibly outdated and goes into trivial detail.
  • "As of 2008" in "economic impact" section needs updating.
  • Anchors section needs a cleanup; far too many "In X, Y happened" sentences and overlinking of store names (Macy's is linked three times in the same sentence)
  • "The Sonic closed in 2012" unsourced
  • References 16 and 29-32 are all bare URLs
  • Lots of dubious sources, including:
  1. Texas A&M's website which has little to no relevance to the mall (source 9)
  2. a water table with questionable relevance (source 10)
  3. an uncredited press release (source 12)
  4. The mall's directory of shops; malls constantly update their directories as stores come and go, so this seems like an inefficient way to document the shops present (source 17)
  5. A book on movie theater chains, which seems to have no relevance to the mall proper (source 18)
  6. A number of press releases from CBL Properties (sources 15, 17, 22, 23)
  7. A newspaper advertisement (source 21)

I also think the article would benefit from a restructuring. Compare Colonial Plaza, Castleton Square, Forest Fair Village, and other GA-class shopping mall articles where the information is presented in a purely chronological fashion from development to present-day. I think that this kind of linear approach reads better than the way the current article covers development first, and then goes back and forth on which stores were where.

ETA: It looks like the entire GA review from 2009 was only a single sentence long, and was being contested even then. Images were added to the article in 2009, but inexplicably G7'd in 2010.

Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:50, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment I am so used to community GARs that I forgot to file this one as an individual reassessment instead. Because of this, I am delisting and possibly invoking WP:IAR in the process. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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