Talk:University Mall (Arkansas)

University Mall (Arkansas) was one of the Art and architecture good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 2, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
April 27, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 11, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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GA on hold

this article has been placed on hold due to lack of references and red links. RC-0722 (talk) 16:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the red links. As for the lack of references, the article references every known credible source there is. --The_stuart (talk) 21:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA

Congratulations, you now have a good article! You missed a red link and you needed to rearrange a few things but I fixed those myself. BTW, go get a combine and we'll go race the Amish. RC-0722 ^communicator/_kills 05:26, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed this, but all the references here need to be properly formatted as per WP:CITE, probably using a template from Wikipedia:Citation templates.--Jackyd101 (talk) 12:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for picking up on that. I never would have noticed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RC-0722 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FAC

Featured article candidate Featured article candidates/University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas)/archive1|withdrawn]] by nominator. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Uncontroversial delist. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:56, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed tags which have been there since August 2022. Steelkamp (talk) 05:16, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is in extremely poor shape, and I've been meaning to get it to GAR for a while myself but keep forgetting.

1. Some of the [citation needed] tags were in violation of WP:LEADCITE, but I did find a decent amount of uncited content elsewhere in the article.
2. Only nine sources is extremely pathetic for a supposedly GA-class article. Compare Merle Hay Mall, which was promoted to GA in 2008 but has held up pretty well. Also compare Tri-City Pavilions or Swifton Center, which are both also GA-class mall articles and considerably more thorough in sourcing than this one is.
3. Tone issues such as " when the Main Street Mall succumbed to the effects of Little Rock's dying downtown", "tenants voiced concerns", "felt that it was a good buy", etc.
4. Most importantly, seven of the nine sources are dead links. For this alone, I think it's a good idea to WP:IAR and speedy delist. Pinging @Lee Vilenski:, @Iazyges:, @Chipmunkdavis:, and @Trainsandotherthings: for their thoughts. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:00, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My word, this even went to FAC! Erm, yeah, we'd need the citations needed fixed. It's not so much of an issue that there is only a few sources, but everything in the article needs to be suitably attributed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:18, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note, something being a deadlink doesn't make the citation any less reliable. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:19, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's still a pretty glaring maintenance issue that severely compromises the article. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:33, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is not really a good article in its current state, obviously. Yes the deadlinks need fixing but this isn't really a speedy delist, either. We do need the citation needed tags resolved as well. If no improvements are made, this would likely be delisted in a week or two. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:18, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.