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Keep. Something about this name is triggering weird responses among experienced editors, with two recent malformed/procedural closes. This logo
File:Dixie Outlet Mall logo.png comes pretty darn close to indicating this is or was a common name for that mall. It is what it is. The presence of this title on Wikipedia should not be construed as "support" for the name by Wikipedia editors. And in Illinois, "In a last-ditch effort to bring back shoppers and tenants, the mall underwent a renovation in 1976 and shortened its name to simply Dixie Mall." If we never redirected from former names, then {{R from former name}} would be deleted. There is also {{R from alternative name}}. –
wbm1058 (
talk)
03:41, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Note that the move request that triggered your experienced editor weird procedural close as malformed wasn't malformed. Redirects can be moved, and letting that discussion resolve would have avoided this one. --
JHunterJ (
talk)
11:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
JHunterJ, the fact that redirects can technically be moved doesn't mean that they should be moved. Your request was
flagged as malformed by my bot. Articles are moved; redirects are retargeted or deleted. If you wanted to move
Dixie Outlet Mall to Dixie Mall (Ontario) you should have said so. I don't really understand what you were proposing or why anything should have been done with that other than what I did.
wbm1058 (
talk)
12:15, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
at 12:23, 29 June 2020
Wbm1058 deleted page
Dixie Mall (G6: Deleted to make way for move)
That your bot flagged it as malformed doesn't mean it was malformed. I didn't want to (nor did I propose to) move the outlet mall to the qualified title. In this case, moving the redirect would have been useful for keeping its history for use in the disambiguation page (which the disambiguation page is using, but I had to re-create the redirect).
WP:MOVEREDIRECT. In any case, if in your opinion the request was malformed, the result shouldn't have been to simply execute the request, but to re-form it. Consider updating your bot to allow for
WP:MOVEREDIRECT cases, or at least examine its reports with that caveat. --
JHunterJ (
talk)
12:24, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
I moved some of the history to
Dixie Mall (Illinois)] (a redirect). The history of the redirect (which was my edit) to the Canadian mall could have been moved to
Dixie Mall (Ontario) (a redirect). The current disambiguation page uses both of those redirects. How would any reader be confused by those redirects' edit histories? --
JHunterJ (
talk)
13:01, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
An "
outlet mall" is a specific type of mall, but it's still a mall. Some reviewers
here are questioning the worthiness of the term "outlet" as a proper description of the mall.
wbm1058 (
talk)
11:19, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete: It's really not needed. Also, locals call the Ontario one the Dixie Outlet Mall, from my experience. But we could get the same amount of information by just having a link at the top of each page says "For the Dixie Mall in XXXX, click here"
TimeEngineer (
talk)
05:04, 5 July 2020 (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.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
Keep. Something about this name is triggering weird responses among experienced editors, with two recent malformed/procedural closes. This logo
File:Dixie Outlet Mall logo.png comes pretty darn close to indicating this is or was a common name for that mall. It is what it is. The presence of this title on Wikipedia should not be construed as "support" for the name by Wikipedia editors. And in Illinois, "In a last-ditch effort to bring back shoppers and tenants, the mall underwent a renovation in 1976 and shortened its name to simply Dixie Mall." If we never redirected from former names, then {{R from former name}} would be deleted. There is also {{R from alternative name}}. –
wbm1058 (
talk)
03:41, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Note that the move request that triggered your experienced editor weird procedural close as malformed wasn't malformed. Redirects can be moved, and letting that discussion resolve would have avoided this one. --
JHunterJ (
talk)
11:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
JHunterJ, the fact that redirects can technically be moved doesn't mean that they should be moved. Your request was
flagged as malformed by my bot. Articles are moved; redirects are retargeted or deleted. If you wanted to move
Dixie Outlet Mall to Dixie Mall (Ontario) you should have said so. I don't really understand what you were proposing or why anything should have been done with that other than what I did.
wbm1058 (
talk)
12:15, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
at 12:23, 29 June 2020
Wbm1058 deleted page
Dixie Mall (G6: Deleted to make way for move)
That your bot flagged it as malformed doesn't mean it was malformed. I didn't want to (nor did I propose to) move the outlet mall to the qualified title. In this case, moving the redirect would have been useful for keeping its history for use in the disambiguation page (which the disambiguation page is using, but I had to re-create the redirect).
WP:MOVEREDIRECT. In any case, if in your opinion the request was malformed, the result shouldn't have been to simply execute the request, but to re-form it. Consider updating your bot to allow for
WP:MOVEREDIRECT cases, or at least examine its reports with that caveat. --
JHunterJ (
talk)
12:24, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
I moved some of the history to
Dixie Mall (Illinois)] (a redirect). The history of the redirect (which was my edit) to the Canadian mall could have been moved to
Dixie Mall (Ontario) (a redirect). The current disambiguation page uses both of those redirects. How would any reader be confused by those redirects' edit histories? --
JHunterJ (
talk)
13:01, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
An "
outlet mall" is a specific type of mall, but it's still a mall. Some reviewers
here are questioning the worthiness of the term "outlet" as a proper description of the mall.
wbm1058 (
talk)
11:19, 30 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete: It's really not needed. Also, locals call the Ontario one the Dixie Outlet Mall, from my experience. But we could get the same amount of information by just having a link at the top of each page says "For the Dixie Mall in XXXX, click here"
TimeEngineer (
talk)
05:04, 5 July 2020 (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
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