Talk:The Mall at the World Trade Center

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[edit] Clean up

What about a section talking about the history of the mall? I don't know much about this place but I know that it once used to be a mall serving primarily office workers and featuring mostly services relating to the WTC, and then in the 1990's, apparel chain stores and other specialty stores were added to create a more traditional shopping mall.

First off, after glancing at the article, I noticed that there is hardly any substansial information. I did not learn anything from this artile.

Also, if possible, perhaps a photo of the mall (before its collapse, of course).

I fixed up the list about the stores mention in the film World Trade Center, but is that really necessary? It might be to some I suppose, but it almost feels unimportant.

For any questions, leave me a message on my talk page. With Regards, --Renegade Replicant|^{leave me a message} 21:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll second the move to remove the list of stores. It's redundant and provides no useful information. Spilla 07:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed as well. I generally dislike long store lists in mall articles, and this one's not even complete. Note the appearance of "Strawberry" on the map and in the photo, but no mention in the list. Not good. So I'll happily support removing that list, and also tagging this soon-to-be-little article as a stub. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the un-needed list, made the main list into 3 columns and added a misc. category. Spilla 09:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

After searching for a pre-9/11 mall picture, the only one I could find was this one on flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jghawley/253844524/) I'm not familiar with Wikipedia copyright guidelines, but is there anyway we can use this under 'fair-use' or something similar?Spilla 09:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I've been gone... but it looks like you found a mall map. The photo would also be a good addition to the article (it would be best to place it near to middle to bottom of the article), but as far as I know (and I may be wrong) I do not believe there is any "fair-use" license for photos. Your best bet is to contact the person who took the photograph (which shouldn't be too hard since they have a flickr account) and ask them if they could either release the photo to public domian or upload it themselves to Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License or someting such as that.--Renegade Replicant|^{leave me a message} 03:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hours and store list removed entirely. These sections don't add anything to the article, and just make it unnecessarily lengthy without saying anything. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)