Talk:The Allston Mall

I have made a deletion in this entry due to a lack of external documentation. Entries are welcome, but should be accompanied by some form of external documentation, meaning something not solely generated by the writer-at-hand. This could be an existing link or a reference to a defunct publication, provided that we can find some proof of its existence.

As it says below "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable"

Vanity article?

Seems like this is a vanity article promoting a developers property. I've lived in Allston for years and never heard of the "Allston Mall" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.236.252.231 (talk) 22:47, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

re: Vanity Article?

I suppose an encyclopedia partially concerns things that one knows nothing about - so that part of this comment seems superfluous. As to this entry promoting a developer's property - this "developer" is no longer in existence, let alone that most of the content of this entry concerns other matters, using the location as a stepping off point for the activity and people situated in that time and place.

Now, as far as "Vanity Article", all writing, let alone the historical record, contains aspects of the vain, and vanity is certainly something that wikipedia is prey to. Just enter a name and then wonder who wrote the content.

Nevertheless, as the main writer of this entry I have striven to link to outside sources, to objectively document the things noted here - which indeed is one of the purported strictures of wikipedia. I made this entry after coming into contact with those mentioned here and being impressed by the energy of that place and its seeming obscurity.

I have already complained about (and then deleted) Keith Restaurant's Outside of America entry, which was then resubmitted. Please sir (or madam) please address this question of vanity and whether you are piggy-backing on my own questioned vanity - can you please supply some documentation besides your own poetic outburst? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenny Graph (talk • contribs) 03:56, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]