A fact from Tri-City Pavilions appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that the $10 million Tri-City Mall in
Mesa, Arizona, began to lose stores and customers ten years after opening, and even a multimillion-dollar renovation could not save it?
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... that the
J. C. Penney store at Arizona's Tri-City Mall was profitable, but it was closed after the mall owner insisted on a long-term lease deal? Source:
[1]
The hook is rather uninteresting. You have so much more in the article; the oil masquerading as rain and other features are interesting; you could also play with the names of the stores.
Yoninah (
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13:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)reply
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Yoninah: A few other malls had "wonderfalls" like that around the same time period, so it isn't unique, and I don't see any funny DYKs emerging from the latter.
Raymie (
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20:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)reply
This article is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The hook facts of ALT0 and ALT1 are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done.
Cwmhiraeth (
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17:36, 4 September 2020 (UTC)reply
I'll let TPH handle most of this, but I fixed the remaining citation issues and clipped them to match the other clippings I'd supplied for this page.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
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c)
08:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)reply
A fact from Tri-City Pavilions appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 September 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the $10 million Tri-City Mall in
Mesa, Arizona, began to lose stores and customers ten years after opening, and even a multimillion-dollar renovation could not save it?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the
United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Shopping Centers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of enclosed
shopping malls, outdoor shopping centers, and
dead malls on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Shopping CentersWikipedia:WikiProject Shopping CentersTemplate:WikiProject Shopping CentersShopping center articles
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that the
J. C. Penney store at Arizona's Tri-City Mall was profitable, but it was closed after the mall owner insisted on a long-term lease deal? Source:
[1]
The hook is rather uninteresting. You have so much more in the article; the oil masquerading as rain and other features are interesting; you could also play with the names of the stores.
Yoninah (
talk)
13:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Yoninah: A few other malls had "wonderfalls" like that around the same time period, so it isn't unique, and I don't see any funny DYKs emerging from the latter.
Raymie (
t •
c)
20:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)reply
This article is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The hook facts of ALT0 and ALT1 are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk)
17:36, 4 September 2020 (UTC)reply
I'll let TPH handle most of this, but I fixed the remaining citation issues and clipped them to match the other clippings I'd supplied for this page.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c)
08:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)reply