Talk:Garden State Plaza

message: No, they are not repealing the blue laws, even partially (I think). If you want to put that in, give a source. Abeg92contribs 18:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also there are no state Blue Laws they were abolished over 25 years ago, any blue laws that are on the books are Bergen County and any local municipality in Bergen County that has such laws on their books. I am a former resident of New Jersey and lived in both Essex and Bergen counties from 1967 to 2018 and so I am very familiar with the blue laws. This needs to be changed but I wanted to discuss it first. YborCityJohn (talk) 03:00, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Blue laws are state laws that can be waived by the county. Every county has done so except for Bergen. — Mhawk10 (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue Laws 

message: This was originally posted at User Talk:Elevatorboy617, in response to the latest move of the article, but I decided it may be more appropriate and get more input placed here:
:Well, we've done this dance a few times, so I needed to bring it here. Firstly, per the naming conventions on article titles, common names are preferred for article titles. In the case of the Plaza, the "Westfield" part of the name is very rarely used. I believe this means that the article title shouldn't include "Westfield". 
:Secondly, and more importantly, it is utterly incorrect to include the Westfield name in any sentence covering material that dates from before the Westfield purchase of the mall in 1997. It wasn't then part of the name and shouldn't be part of the name. 
:I hope to hear your thoughts on this. oknazevad (talk) 01:37, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title (or, to Westfield or not to Westfield, that is the question) 

message: This article has been subject to paid editing - please see Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#User:MallExpert.  I have put a COI tag on it. The article needs to be reviewed for compliance with WP:NPOV and valid souring per the tag.  Once the article is reviewed by independent editors, the tag can be removed - please make a note here if you remove the tag.  Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 22:19, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: went through this quickly, seems oK Jytdog (talk) 23:49, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: COI tag

message: Hello. My name is Erik Even, and I am a Web Producer for Westfield Corporation. We're concerned that many of the Wikipedia pages for Westfield centers have incorrect or outdated information, and even content that is not NPOV.
I have read the rules for Conflict of Interest, and I will not be attempting to make any page edits. I will simply be going into talk pages, and suggesting edits, which the community may then either act on or not. I genuinely appreciate any help you can give. 
Our suggested text is below, which is meant to be the first paragraph.
Again, thank you for your help.
Suggested text:
Westfield Garden State Plaza is a two-story, 2.1 million-square-foot upscale shopping mall located in Paramus, New Jersey, and owned and managed by the Westfield Corporation. It is located at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 17 near the Garden State Parkway, about 15 miles west of Manhattan. Housing over 300 stores, it is the largest mall in New Jersey, the third-largest mall in the New York metropolitan area, and one of the highest-revenue producing malls in the United States. Its anchors include J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom. It was the first large-scale shopping mall in New Jersey.
Westfield Garden State Plaza was described by the New York Times as perhaps the single most influential retail destination in the U.S.(*)
(*)http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/business/welcome-to-the-potemkin-mall.html
ErikEvenWestfield (talk) 22:59, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Westfield Content Change Request 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
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*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20101211064743/http://americancity.org/magazine/article/taken-for-a-ride-the-inanity-of-escalators/ to http://americancity.org/magazine/article/taken-for-a-ride-the-inanity-of-escalators/
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Should mall articles list their anchor stores or is this a violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY. --RAN (talk) 01:19, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The material is already elsewhere in the article, though, so INFOBOXPURPOSE is already fulfilled. That's not been addressed: the anchors are already listed in the article in prose, and a separate Bullet list is redundant. oknazevad (talk) 03:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC

message: *Malls are defined by their anchors, so yes, it would be odd to have an article on a mall without listing the anchors. If we named every store in the mall, it would be a directory. There is nothing in WP:NOTDIRECTORY that demands we remove the list of the four anchors or two anchors in smaller malls. Anchor store is so important, it has its own article in Wikipedia. They are so important they should be in the infobox. --RAN (talk) 01:19, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The material is already elsewhere in the article, though, so INFOBOXPURPOSE is already fulfilled. That's not been addressed: the anchors are already listed in the article in prose, and a separate Bullet list is redundant. oknazevad (talk) 03:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: List them

message: *Even if only a partial list, it's still a plain list without context or prose discussion. It's also redundant to the mention in prose earlier in the article, which fulfills WP:NOTDIRECTORY's call for prose far better. oknazevad (talk) 02:37, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Do not list

message: American Dream Meadowlands has a retail area of 3,000,000 square feet according to the artice. 150.250.5.30 (talk) 22:32, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Garden State still the largest mall in NJ? 

message: Currently the only bits of information about the recent guardian requirement for minors 18 and under is the last sentence in the intro and a little bit in the history. Given that this is a pretty big deal with fierce reactions and that you can still sneak in easily (my little brother literally did it this past weekend) I think it makes sense to expand upon that, however I fear a WP:COATRACK ARTICLE and since I’m learning about the rules and regs of this supermassive website I’ll take whatever advice as a learning tool. Jason Ingtonn (talk) 08:27, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand upon guardian requirement