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The intro to that page says: "(…) and a height of at least 340 metres (1,120 ft)."
But according to Skyscraper (and its sources) "Modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least 100 meters (330 ft) or 150 meters (490 ft) in height".
Can we change it? Qubkon ( talk) 12:03, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
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Egypt is building a 1000m skyscraper, Obelisco Capitale. It should be added to the list of tallest buildings under construction: /info/en/?search=Oblisco_Capitale Ecaml ( talk) 08:35, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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In List of tallest buildings, please remove The Illinois listed on the article section "buildings under construction" because it is not under construction with reliable sources in line with WP:OP state that there are no intentions to build it, and it is the reason why the protection is put in place to begin with. Bearnard55 ( talk) 06:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
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Please update the lead sentence from 340 to 350. At some point recently the cutoff was moved up a bit in the main table, but whoever did so neglected to update the lead sentence to match. Thank you. 71.62.176.24 ( talk) 21:25, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
The CN tower held the record of tallest building in the world for more than 30 years and isn’t on the list. Whoever put this article together is a moron. 2607:F2C0:E34C:3980:1C37:55A0:2A87:D96A ( talk) 17:00, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I would like to suggest the numbers in the final section titled "countries with most buildings on list" be changed slightly to more accurately reflect the updated main list of tallest buildings at the beginning of the article. This involves the following:
-change China from 48 to 46
-change United States from 13 to 11
-change Malaysia from 5 to 4
-change Russia from 4 to 3
-change Taiwan from 2 to 1 [dropping its rank to 9]
The main cause of these changes is that someone changed the standard for a building's inclusion on the list from 340 m tall to 350 meters tall, which eliminated several buildings from the list.
Additionally, "Hanking Center" in Shenzhen should have its ranked be 72, not 71, and every building after it should be brought down by one rank place as well. This is because "Jinan Ping An Finance Center Tower 1" is tied with "Almas Tower" for number 70, which means it claims the 71 spot by proxy.
I would also like to suggest the comments column of "Autograph Tower" in Jakarta include the descriptor of "Tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere". EthanWork ( talk) 18:01, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
There are several inconsistencies in this page, which I feel should be addressed.
A simple one is that the Tianjin CTF Finance Centre is listed as the tallest building in the world with fewer than 100 floors; but two places above it in the table is One World Trade Center, which also has fewer than 100 floors and is 11.3 metres taller.
A trickier one is the statment near the top of the article that "Such definition excludes non-building structures, such as towers." I don't believe most people would believe that 'towers' is a proper subset of 'non-building structures'. ('Non-building structures' is a terribly clunky phrase anyway.) 21 of the top 50 buildings currently on this list have the word 'tower' in their names, either in English or in Arabic or both. I think most native English speakers would agree that as a matter of fact, every building on this page is or includes a tower. I appreciate that there's got to be some logic for separating things that are obviously usable buildings from other structures like radio masts - but declaring that towers aren't buildings seems absurd on the face of it.
I'm interested in other editors' thoughts on this. GenevieveDEon ( talk) 12:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
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The intro to that page says: "(…) and a height of at least 340 metres (1,120 ft)."
But according to Skyscraper (and its sources) "Modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least 100 meters (330 ft) or 150 meters (490 ft) in height".
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Egypt is building a 1000m skyscraper, Obelisco Capitale. It should be added to the list of tallest buildings under construction: /info/en/?search=Oblisco_Capitale Ecaml ( talk) 08:35, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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In List of tallest buildings, please remove The Illinois listed on the article section "buildings under construction" because it is not under construction with reliable sources in line with WP:OP state that there are no intentions to build it, and it is the reason why the protection is put in place to begin with. Bearnard55 ( talk) 06:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
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Please update the lead sentence from 340 to 350. At some point recently the cutoff was moved up a bit in the main table, but whoever did so neglected to update the lead sentence to match. Thank you. 71.62.176.24 ( talk) 21:25, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
The CN tower held the record of tallest building in the world for more than 30 years and isn’t on the list. Whoever put this article together is a moron. 2607:F2C0:E34C:3980:1C37:55A0:2A87:D96A ( talk) 17:00, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I would like to suggest the numbers in the final section titled "countries with most buildings on list" be changed slightly to more accurately reflect the updated main list of tallest buildings at the beginning of the article. This involves the following:
-change China from 48 to 46
-change United States from 13 to 11
-change Malaysia from 5 to 4
-change Russia from 4 to 3
-change Taiwan from 2 to 1 [dropping its rank to 9]
The main cause of these changes is that someone changed the standard for a building's inclusion on the list from 340 m tall to 350 meters tall, which eliminated several buildings from the list.
Additionally, "Hanking Center" in Shenzhen should have its ranked be 72, not 71, and every building after it should be brought down by one rank place as well. This is because "Jinan Ping An Finance Center Tower 1" is tied with "Almas Tower" for number 70, which means it claims the 71 spot by proxy.
I would also like to suggest the comments column of "Autograph Tower" in Jakarta include the descriptor of "Tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere". EthanWork ( talk) 18:01, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
There are several inconsistencies in this page, which I feel should be addressed.
A simple one is that the Tianjin CTF Finance Centre is listed as the tallest building in the world with fewer than 100 floors; but two places above it in the table is One World Trade Center, which also has fewer than 100 floors and is 11.3 metres taller.
A trickier one is the statment near the top of the article that "Such definition excludes non-building structures, such as towers." I don't believe most people would believe that 'towers' is a proper subset of 'non-building structures'. ('Non-building structures' is a terribly clunky phrase anyway.) 21 of the top 50 buildings currently on this list have the word 'tower' in their names, either in English or in Arabic or both. I think most native English speakers would agree that as a matter of fact, every building on this page is or includes a tower. I appreciate that there's got to be some logic for separating things that are obviously usable buildings from other structures like radio masts - but declaring that towers aren't buildings seems absurd on the face of it.
I'm interested in other editors' thoughts on this. GenevieveDEon ( talk) 12:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)