Talk:Muscatine Mall

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SonOfYoutubers talk 16:34, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that when Walmart opened at Muscatine, Iowa's Muscatine Mall in 1983, the location was referred to as their "Yankee store" due to it being their northernmost at the time?

• Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-muscatine-journal/175438549/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Lincoln Tally

Created by TenPoundHammer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:38, 28 June 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was nominated for DYK within 7 days of creation. It is more than 1,500 characters in prose and properly cited. Earwig picked up an unlikely copyright violation of 1.0%; I looked through the wording and didn't see any close paraphrasing. The hook is relatively interesting and caught my eye. QPQ done. I would say this is good to go. lullabying (talk) 00:35, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Muscatine Mall/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: TenPoundHammer (talk · contribs) 01:34, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Reconrabbit (talk · contribs) 14:44, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

I enjoyed reviewing the last mall article of yours so I might as well review another. -- Reconrabbit 14:44, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@Reconrabbit: Still working on this? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:56, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

I am! Please give me a little time, reading sources is always my weakest point in these reviews. -- Reconrabbit 01:36, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

I am nearly done but will look over it one more time when I'm not half asleep and close out the source checks. -- Reconrabbit 04:34, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Prose

• Is the penultimate anchor store "Compton's Furniture & More", "Compton Furniture", or "Furniture & More"? The first two are used in this article but I see the latter in the Muscatine Journal.
• Copyright: Nothing noted immediately.

• I went with "Compton's Furniture & More" for consistency, as that's what the logo in the article says. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:14, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

• an approximately 287,000-square-foot (26,700 m2) enclosed shopping mall on Park Avenue (then part of US 61) the north side of Muscatine, Iowa. Should be 'in' or 'on' the north side
• I don't know if "then-mayor" is a needed construct but I can't find the manual of style page that describes this. Could just be "mayor" but don't take my word for it.
• Got the missing word and shortened it to just "mayor". Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:25, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

References

• No issues with the reflist layout.
• Most of the newspaper articles can be read through the OCR.

Spot checking

Reviewing 10 sources/15% of sources, whichever is larger (on this article: 10). Numbering is based on this revision.

• [2] Y
• [11] Y
• [22] Y
• [29] Y
• [37] Y
• [46] Y
• [48] Y
• [50] Supports change of anchor store but name of the store is unclear. Y
• [51] Y
• [53] Y Presumably the shoe store is still open in 2025, I don't expect to find a press release stating "yep, it's still open".

Scope

• Broad: The article is entirely history, but any useful details that could be separated into their own sections is better encapsulated in this way (ex. current stores or similar, which could be considered going against WP:NOTDIRECTORY etc). The architecture is unremarkable enough (the whole structure being a hallway) that it's not a notable omission.
• Narrow: Where there is coverage of additions, it is noted (such as the alterations to the central court and changes in anchor stores).

Stability

• Neutrality: As even-handed and impartial towards the mall and its occupants as can be expected. Y
• Edit warring: No disruption noted.

Images

• Free/Fair use: Images are CC BY SA 4.0. Thanks to this user whose sole contribution was several pictures of the interior of this mall.
• Relevance: There are some nicer photos out there but I don't have any major complaints about the ones used here. They are representative of the mall. Having seen the entrance in a video (perhaps the most nondescript mall entrance of all time) I don't see much value in scrounging around for a photo.

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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