Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salisbury Mall
Once encyclopedic, always encyclopedic. The fact that this mall may be demolished soon does not detract from the fact that it was once an important retail area where many people were employed. Understanding the rise and fall of shopping malls in an era of widespread car ownership is an important part of economic history, in the same way that the development of electric streetcars meant that downtown department stores could tap a larger geographic catchment area, at the expense of neighborhood merchants. One role that Wikipedia can play is answering a reader's questions about the sort of company where the reader's grandparents worked. Articles about vanished factories, department stores and even malls play a role in answering those questions. In any event, the references meet , but there are a number of ways in which the article could be expanded
— User:TruthbringerToronto, 05:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CORP (Wikipedia:Notability)