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THere is a dispute of the naming conventions for article titles on skyscrapers in London. Some such as 30 St Mary Axe use the postal address others use the "common" name such a V building I think the article titles should be stadardised to the postal address as over time the "common" name will change but the postal address will not.-- Lucy-marie ( talk) 00:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
User:Angcr added {{ Skyscrapers}} to Talk:List of tallest buildings in Kansas City. Angcr labelled its class as "NA" and its importance as "High." I feel as though both of these are incorrect. Can someone please have a look at this and change the class and importance to the appropriate classification? Thank you. Leitmanp ( talk | contributions) 00:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
class=List
(other than FLs and lists being ranked for purposes relating to the
featured topic drive, list class seems appropriate for building lists) and importance=Mid
, as the city is not home to a great number of tall and/or notable skyscrapers. Thanks for bringing this up. Cheers,
Rai-
me
00:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)I have noticed that there is no category for FL-Class Skyscraper articles ( Category:FL-Class Skyscraper articles). All Featured lists are put into the Featured article category ( Category:FA-Class Skyscraper articles), even though they are classified as "Featured Lists." Should a new category be created and the class be changed on the lists' talk pages? Leitmanp ( talk | contributions) 00:33, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Does any one else think we need to standardize skyscraper article titles? Right now, the majority of the articles who need disambiguation use the "NAME (CITY)" format, but a few (such as Citigroup Centre, London) use "NAME, CITY". As the majority use the former, I believe we should set up a guideline and move all pages that use the comma format to the parentheses format. Comments? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raime ( talk • contribs) 15:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
(un-dent) I think the basis of the argument isn't that skyscrapers should not use the comma method because they are not geographic locations, and that ones that already use the comma method therefore are geographic locations; it is that skyscrapers aren't themselves geographic locations, and therefore the comma method is no more appropriate than the parentheses method. And, since the comma method is used more widely than the parentheses method to describe geographic locations, that the parentheses method may even be more appropriate. I think that very few schools incorporate parentheses into their official names (I could be wrong), so this is not a major issue, but no matter what disambiguation would be very clumsy - is "Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), Singapore" any less clumsy than "Raffles Girls' School (Secondary, Singapore)"? It is also very doubtful that such schools with parentheses in their official names are going to need disambiguation in the first place.
It appears that the vast majority of US, Dubai, Hong Kong, Canada, etc. skyscrapers use the "NAME (CITY)" method and the majority of Singapore, UK, etc. skyscrapers use the "NAME, CITY" method. Although not my original proposition, we could discuss separate naming conventions for individual countries at WP:NC; standardization/consistency is only required within countries, not for all articles about similar topics. Cheers, Rai- me 13:27, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester is up for WP:FL status here. Thought the project might be interested! -- Jza84 · ( talk) 13:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Per this discussion at WP:LOTD, I believe we should consider adding wikiliks to image captions of tallest building lists. See List of tallest buildings in Boston as an example, which was recently changed as a part of its LOTD nomination. The reason for the removal of the linking in caption stems from old concerns brought up at WP:FLC that weren't even related to building lists. Since then, the concerns seem to have completely subsided, as several image-filled FLs contain caption wikilinking (see List of the most populous counties in the United States and List of Buffalo Sabres players). Does anyone else agree that we should add links to building articles in captions? -- Rai- me 03:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Can we come to a decision on whether "Tallest buildings in CITY NAME's suburbs" sections are suitable for placement in tallest building lists? At present, guidelines for including such sections are not specified at Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists. I have in the past removed/hid the tallest suburb section of List of tallest buildings in Detroit, using the basis that the suburbs are not a part of the city, that the list is already long enough, and that such a topic may warrant its own individual page, but it has since been reinstated by User:Thomas Paine1776. Also, similar sections have been removed from List of tallest buildings in Chicago and List of tallest buildings in New York City. I am interested in other editors' thoughts on this matter. If we were to accept "tallest suburbs" section in building lists, then we should re-add the appropriate sections to the NYC and Chicago lists, create new sections for any other city that warrants it, and add guideline information to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists. However, if not, then the information should be removed from the Detroit list. Also, if we are to include such sections, can a better word then "suburbs" be used? Cheers, Rai- me 02:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Should we start archiving old threads like what was done to the Engineering project talk page? Some of the threads here are over three months old and the page is getting a bit long. Cheers. Trance addict 03:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems like all SkyscraperPage diagram links don't work anymore on the building lists. This is because SkyscraperPage underwent a major overhaul of their site and changed servers. Therefore, all links to SkyscraperPage diagrams need to be fixed. Cheers.
Trance addict
07:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon is a featured list candidate. Please comment here. Cheers. Trance addict 08:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Could someone clean up and add to Hearst Tower, Bank of America Plaza (Charlotte), Wachovia Corporate Center, and One Wachovia Center (Charlotte). Also if someone could add some pictures. Alaskan assassin ( talk) 19:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
User:Susanlesch has recently opposed the Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis based on the fact that the list does not list the architcets of the buildings. This topic hasn't ever really been brought up; List of tallest buildings in Toronto, now an FL, listed the architects of the 10 tallest buildings for a short time, but they have since been removed. My question is, do other editors believe that architects need to be listed?
My opinion on the matter is that architects shouldn't be listed for a number of reasons:
Well, that is the basis of my thoughts. I hope that other project members and editors in general will express their opinions. Obviously, if there is consensus to add architects to building lists, then we would need to find a way to include this information in all 17 tallest building lists without "crunching" the tables. Comments? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raime ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 7 April 2008
One recent edit to the Burj Dubai article suggested that the term "supertall" should not be used. I've never been comfortable with that specific term so tend to agree with the assessment that it is made-up word that has worked it way into common usage. What does the project think? Should we go on a hunt to remove "supertall" from all articles and templates covered by the project? Astronaut ( talk) 12:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just added my name to the list of participants. I don't know enough about skyscrapers to create lists or articles, but I am willing to do image mapping of lead images, such as that on List of tallest buildings in Jersey City. I understand this has been discussed before but it hasn't occurred yet because no-one knows exactly how to do it.
If anyone knows of any articles with images that need mapping, let me know on my talk page and make it clear which buildings need doing. For example the image in the above article, you could just say something like, "The big glass one in between the green building and the tall building at the right of the picture." Anything that is equally simple for me to understand will be good! Just don't give me the names of the buildings, because obviously I'm not likely to know what they are! Also let me know if there are any structures on the image that are part of the skyscrapers, but are not very high, such as the 9-storey building of the Liberty View Towers as I wouldn't want to leave any part of it out by mistake. Thanks, guys! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have seen a lot of articles about proposed buildings that does not seem notable. Many of these are not built. What is the criteria for having such articles? Rettetast ( talk) 22:21, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Quick question, is it really necessary to have the Chinese name of every skyscraper listed in building lists? See List of tallest buildings in Shanghai and List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong. While I'm generally against linguistic ignorance, this is the English Wikipedia, and the Chinese names provide no useful information to most readers. Plus the the table is very cramped on lower resolutions, and the Chinese name is available on the skyscraper's article. -- Joowwww ( talk) 15:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Done Changed the policy for tallest buildings list to exclude foreign names. Cheers.
Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond
05:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
IF POSSIBLE CAN EVERYONE IN THE PORTAL SUPPORT THE SKYSCRAPER WIKIA @ [4] Houstontowers ( talk) 20:39, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
The Wiki was Accepted!!!!!!!!!! Link: skyscrapers.wikia.com Houstontowers ( talk) 22:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey, User:Keeper76 has kindly started offloading some of the completely unwatched pages on Wikipedia to me, and I wondered if someone could look after this one - seems to be the right Wikiproject for it! :) Easy either way, but I'm looking at taking loads of these things on, and it'd be good if people interested in the subjects claimed them (like a lost and found!) Fritzpoll ( talk) 22:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Two extra ones have cropped up: 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza and 101 Independence Center. This'll be it for a bit, hopefully there'll be a few more within a couple of weeks. Fritzpoll ( talk) 22:11, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you are familiar with http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/ I just created my first maps from the service this week. One is at Historic Michigan Boulevard District and another is at Trump International Hotel & Tower (Chicago). A better example is Image:Rush Street via tiger.census.gov.gif, which is at a scale to show street detail. I think it might make sense to reformat some of the infoboxes to accommodate maps as well as images. The TIGER maps above just need latitude and longitude and then scaling parameter. I think all buildings should have maps. I think WP:SKY, WP:NRHP and WP:WPARCH should probably get involved because we would need to goose some infobox templates to make room for maps. What do you think?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 21:05, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
There has been some unsourced information added to Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower. However, the link to the sourced information it has replaced has died. Feel free to help if you can.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I redirected Bank One Building to Bank One Center and created Regions Bank building, and I would like to propose a convention:
Any thoughts? -- Random832 ( contribs) 17:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I know is is a little late in teh game to be discussing a reworking of the FTD, but as we get closer and closer to the 24th featured list, I am becoming worried that our "skyline ranking" system of number of buildings over 500 feet / 152 m, while interesting info to include in list leads, will not hold up at WP:FTC. So, I have thought of a new possible scope:
Comments? Cheers, Rai• me 04:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)/1
The FL List of tallest buildings and structures in London has been nominated for removal. The nom can be found here. -- Scorpion 0422 03:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
See
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1801 California Street; th following articles are up for deletion:
Any improvement of these stubs would be great. Cheers,
Rai•
me
13:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Ever notice most, if not all, AFD debates involving skyscrapers / highrises go like this:
Most of these debates involve building articles without properly cited refs and infoboxes. Perhaps its time to "renovate" WP:SKY articles with proper formatting and refs to reduce the possibility of an article going to AFD. Cheers. Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond 19:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I started an article on the Houston Center, an office and retail complex in Houston. I then found out that articles about One Houston Center and Two Houston Center already exist! The buildings are both part of the complex and are managed by the same company.
Should they be merged into the "Houston Center" article, or should they remain separate? WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:53, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Support merger. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 05:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I truley don't understand how American Commerce Center will be taller then the sears tower, There seems to be some contreversy on the American Commerce Center, talk page. I changed the text in the article to say 4th tallest, an edit likley to be reverted due to the "is the spire and an antennea the same" act. Please explain the reasoning to me. - Marcusmax ( talk) 20:05, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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The Wachovia Corporate Center is part of a complex called the Wachovia Cultural Campus with Wachovia Condominium Tower, Afro-American Cultural Center, and the Bechtler Art Museum [5], all of wich don't have articles. Should all these be merged into one article or be kept as seprate ones, when they get created? Alaskan assassin ( talk) 16:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I've been taking some photos of the skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles and thinking of improving the articles. A couple of the taller buildings in LA are "centers", composed of more than one building. Since there is more than one building in these articles, should there be 2 infoboxes? The Wells Fargo Center (Los_Angeles) has buildings of different heights & sizes, while the City National Bank Plaza has twin towers. Any thoughts? Minnaert ( talk) 01:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Go to
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/China 117 Tower to see the discussion. Cheers.
Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab
17:58, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Result was keep. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 16:44, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, while going through Category:Wikipedia requested diagram images I noticed there are a lot of requested diagrams for articles on particular towers. Can anyone tell me what is a good kind of a diagram for a tower? (Do we have an example one?) Is a diagram better than a photograph? A lot of these diagram requests have no detail and are therefore probably rather hard for wouldbe illustrators to assess. (If you could drop me a line on my talk page when you reply, that would be grand.) thanks, pfctdayelise ( talk) 15:59, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
There is a skyscrapers wiki at HERE.
It would be helpful if this project contributed to it.
Houstontowers ( talk) 21:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
16 East Broad Street and
1600 Broadway are both up for deletion. The deletion discussions are at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/16 East Broad Street and
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1600 Broadway. --
Leitmanp (
talk |
contributions)
02:07, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Another article,
1000 Connecticut Avenue, is also up for deletion. Please see the discussion at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1000 Connecticut Avenue. Thanks.
Leitmanp (
talk |
contributions)
02:26, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Result was keep all. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 04:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
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For some reason, all buildings and projects over 101 m have disappeared from the city listing. (See Dubai, for example). As for buildings with only floor counts listed, all entries with 40 or more floors have also vanished. ( Look here). Does anyone know what happened? Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 07:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
After stumbling upon this website, I thought I would suggest that your project make a List of the tallest skylines in the world. It could have several columns like # high rises, # skyscrapers, average height of tallest 10 buildings, etc.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 15:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Several editors have recently been attempting to update the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat article. The problem is that the content was copied directly from the CTBUH website ( http://www.ctbuh.org). This is clearly a copyright violation. I have reverted the edits twice, but the editors have restored the article to their own version. I would appreciate some help in keeping the copyrighted content off the article and/or hopefully resolving this issue.
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Since I am not a building guy, I might have erred. I have seen the Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) move into the completed section of the tallest lists so I moved it in Template:Supertall skyscrapers, and Template:Chicago Skyscrapers.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 06:47, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
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THere is a dispute of the naming conventions for article titles on skyscrapers in London. Some such as 30 St Mary Axe use the postal address others use the "common" name such a V building I think the article titles should be stadardised to the postal address as over time the "common" name will change but the postal address will not.-- Lucy-marie ( talk) 00:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
User:Angcr added {{ Skyscrapers}} to Talk:List of tallest buildings in Kansas City. Angcr labelled its class as "NA" and its importance as "High." I feel as though both of these are incorrect. Can someone please have a look at this and change the class and importance to the appropriate classification? Thank you. Leitmanp ( talk | contributions) 00:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
class=List
(other than FLs and lists being ranked for purposes relating to the
featured topic drive, list class seems appropriate for building lists) and importance=Mid
, as the city is not home to a great number of tall and/or notable skyscrapers. Thanks for bringing this up. Cheers,
Rai-
me
00:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)I have noticed that there is no category for FL-Class Skyscraper articles ( Category:FL-Class Skyscraper articles). All Featured lists are put into the Featured article category ( Category:FA-Class Skyscraper articles), even though they are classified as "Featured Lists." Should a new category be created and the class be changed on the lists' talk pages? Leitmanp ( talk | contributions) 00:33, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Does any one else think we need to standardize skyscraper article titles? Right now, the majority of the articles who need disambiguation use the "NAME (CITY)" format, but a few (such as Citigroup Centre, London) use "NAME, CITY". As the majority use the former, I believe we should set up a guideline and move all pages that use the comma format to the parentheses format. Comments? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raime ( talk • contribs) 15:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
(un-dent) I think the basis of the argument isn't that skyscrapers should not use the comma method because they are not geographic locations, and that ones that already use the comma method therefore are geographic locations; it is that skyscrapers aren't themselves geographic locations, and therefore the comma method is no more appropriate than the parentheses method. And, since the comma method is used more widely than the parentheses method to describe geographic locations, that the parentheses method may even be more appropriate. I think that very few schools incorporate parentheses into their official names (I could be wrong), so this is not a major issue, but no matter what disambiguation would be very clumsy - is "Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), Singapore" any less clumsy than "Raffles Girls' School (Secondary, Singapore)"? It is also very doubtful that such schools with parentheses in their official names are going to need disambiguation in the first place.
It appears that the vast majority of US, Dubai, Hong Kong, Canada, etc. skyscrapers use the "NAME (CITY)" method and the majority of Singapore, UK, etc. skyscrapers use the "NAME, CITY" method. Although not my original proposition, we could discuss separate naming conventions for individual countries at WP:NC; standardization/consistency is only required within countries, not for all articles about similar topics. Cheers, Rai- me 13:27, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester is up for WP:FL status here. Thought the project might be interested! -- Jza84 · ( talk) 13:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Per this discussion at WP:LOTD, I believe we should consider adding wikiliks to image captions of tallest building lists. See List of tallest buildings in Boston as an example, which was recently changed as a part of its LOTD nomination. The reason for the removal of the linking in caption stems from old concerns brought up at WP:FLC that weren't even related to building lists. Since then, the concerns seem to have completely subsided, as several image-filled FLs contain caption wikilinking (see List of the most populous counties in the United States and List of Buffalo Sabres players). Does anyone else agree that we should add links to building articles in captions? -- Rai- me 03:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Can we come to a decision on whether "Tallest buildings in CITY NAME's suburbs" sections are suitable for placement in tallest building lists? At present, guidelines for including such sections are not specified at Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists. I have in the past removed/hid the tallest suburb section of List of tallest buildings in Detroit, using the basis that the suburbs are not a part of the city, that the list is already long enough, and that such a topic may warrant its own individual page, but it has since been reinstated by User:Thomas Paine1776. Also, similar sections have been removed from List of tallest buildings in Chicago and List of tallest buildings in New York City. I am interested in other editors' thoughts on this matter. If we were to accept "tallest suburbs" section in building lists, then we should re-add the appropriate sections to the NYC and Chicago lists, create new sections for any other city that warrants it, and add guideline information to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists. However, if not, then the information should be removed from the Detroit list. Also, if we are to include such sections, can a better word then "suburbs" be used? Cheers, Rai- me 02:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Should we start archiving old threads like what was done to the Engineering project talk page? Some of the threads here are over three months old and the page is getting a bit long. Cheers. Trance addict 03:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems like all SkyscraperPage diagram links don't work anymore on the building lists. This is because SkyscraperPage underwent a major overhaul of their site and changed servers. Therefore, all links to SkyscraperPage diagrams need to be fixed. Cheers.
Trance addict
07:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon is a featured list candidate. Please comment here. Cheers. Trance addict 08:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Could someone clean up and add to Hearst Tower, Bank of America Plaza (Charlotte), Wachovia Corporate Center, and One Wachovia Center (Charlotte). Also if someone could add some pictures. Alaskan assassin ( talk) 19:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
User:Susanlesch has recently opposed the Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis based on the fact that the list does not list the architcets of the buildings. This topic hasn't ever really been brought up; List of tallest buildings in Toronto, now an FL, listed the architects of the 10 tallest buildings for a short time, but they have since been removed. My question is, do other editors believe that architects need to be listed?
My opinion on the matter is that architects shouldn't be listed for a number of reasons:
Well, that is the basis of my thoughts. I hope that other project members and editors in general will express their opinions. Obviously, if there is consensus to add architects to building lists, then we would need to find a way to include this information in all 17 tallest building lists without "crunching" the tables. Comments? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raime ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 7 April 2008
One recent edit to the Burj Dubai article suggested that the term "supertall" should not be used. I've never been comfortable with that specific term so tend to agree with the assessment that it is made-up word that has worked it way into common usage. What does the project think? Should we go on a hunt to remove "supertall" from all articles and templates covered by the project? Astronaut ( talk) 12:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just added my name to the list of participants. I don't know enough about skyscrapers to create lists or articles, but I am willing to do image mapping of lead images, such as that on List of tallest buildings in Jersey City. I understand this has been discussed before but it hasn't occurred yet because no-one knows exactly how to do it.
If anyone knows of any articles with images that need mapping, let me know on my talk page and make it clear which buildings need doing. For example the image in the above article, you could just say something like, "The big glass one in between the green building and the tall building at the right of the picture." Anything that is equally simple for me to understand will be good! Just don't give me the names of the buildings, because obviously I'm not likely to know what they are! Also let me know if there are any structures on the image that are part of the skyscrapers, but are not very high, such as the 9-storey building of the Liberty View Towers as I wouldn't want to leave any part of it out by mistake. Thanks, guys! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have seen a lot of articles about proposed buildings that does not seem notable. Many of these are not built. What is the criteria for having such articles? Rettetast ( talk) 22:21, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Quick question, is it really necessary to have the Chinese name of every skyscraper listed in building lists? See List of tallest buildings in Shanghai and List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong. While I'm generally against linguistic ignorance, this is the English Wikipedia, and the Chinese names provide no useful information to most readers. Plus the the table is very cramped on lower resolutions, and the Chinese name is available on the skyscraper's article. -- Joowwww ( talk) 15:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Done Changed the policy for tallest buildings list to exclude foreign names. Cheers.
Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond
05:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
IF POSSIBLE CAN EVERYONE IN THE PORTAL SUPPORT THE SKYSCRAPER WIKIA @ [4] Houstontowers ( talk) 20:39, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
The Wiki was Accepted!!!!!!!!!! Link: skyscrapers.wikia.com Houstontowers ( talk) 22:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey, User:Keeper76 has kindly started offloading some of the completely unwatched pages on Wikipedia to me, and I wondered if someone could look after this one - seems to be the right Wikiproject for it! :) Easy either way, but I'm looking at taking loads of these things on, and it'd be good if people interested in the subjects claimed them (like a lost and found!) Fritzpoll ( talk) 22:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Two extra ones have cropped up: 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza and 101 Independence Center. This'll be it for a bit, hopefully there'll be a few more within a couple of weeks. Fritzpoll ( talk) 22:11, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you are familiar with http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/ I just created my first maps from the service this week. One is at Historic Michigan Boulevard District and another is at Trump International Hotel & Tower (Chicago). A better example is Image:Rush Street via tiger.census.gov.gif, which is at a scale to show street detail. I think it might make sense to reformat some of the infoboxes to accommodate maps as well as images. The TIGER maps above just need latitude and longitude and then scaling parameter. I think all buildings should have maps. I think WP:SKY, WP:NRHP and WP:WPARCH should probably get involved because we would need to goose some infobox templates to make room for maps. What do you think?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 21:05, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
There has been some unsourced information added to Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower. However, the link to the sourced information it has replaced has died. Feel free to help if you can.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I redirected Bank One Building to Bank One Center and created Regions Bank building, and I would like to propose a convention:
Any thoughts? -- Random832 ( contribs) 17:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I know is is a little late in teh game to be discussing a reworking of the FTD, but as we get closer and closer to the 24th featured list, I am becoming worried that our "skyline ranking" system of number of buildings over 500 feet / 152 m, while interesting info to include in list leads, will not hold up at WP:FTC. So, I have thought of a new possible scope:
Comments? Cheers, Rai• me 04:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)/1
The FL List of tallest buildings and structures in London has been nominated for removal. The nom can be found here. -- Scorpion 0422 03:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
See
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1801 California Street; th following articles are up for deletion:
Any improvement of these stubs would be great. Cheers,
Rai•
me
13:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Ever notice most, if not all, AFD debates involving skyscrapers / highrises go like this:
Most of these debates involve building articles without properly cited refs and infoboxes. Perhaps its time to "renovate" WP:SKY articles with proper formatting and refs to reduce the possibility of an article going to AFD. Cheers. Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond 19:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I started an article on the Houston Center, an office and retail complex in Houston. I then found out that articles about One Houston Center and Two Houston Center already exist! The buildings are both part of the complex and are managed by the same company.
Should they be merged into the "Houston Center" article, or should they remain separate? WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:53, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Support merger. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 05:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I truley don't understand how American Commerce Center will be taller then the sears tower, There seems to be some contreversy on the American Commerce Center, talk page. I changed the text in the article to say 4th tallest, an edit likley to be reverted due to the "is the spire and an antennea the same" act. Please explain the reasoning to me. - Marcusmax ( talk) 20:05, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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The Wachovia Corporate Center is part of a complex called the Wachovia Cultural Campus with Wachovia Condominium Tower, Afro-American Cultural Center, and the Bechtler Art Museum [5], all of wich don't have articles. Should all these be merged into one article or be kept as seprate ones, when they get created? Alaskan assassin ( talk) 16:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I've been taking some photos of the skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles and thinking of improving the articles. A couple of the taller buildings in LA are "centers", composed of more than one building. Since there is more than one building in these articles, should there be 2 infoboxes? The Wells Fargo Center (Los_Angeles) has buildings of different heights & sizes, while the City National Bank Plaza has twin towers. Any thoughts? Minnaert ( talk) 01:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Go to
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/China 117 Tower to see the discussion. Cheers.
Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab
17:58, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Result was keep. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 16:44, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, while going through Category:Wikipedia requested diagram images I noticed there are a lot of requested diagrams for articles on particular towers. Can anyone tell me what is a good kind of a diagram for a tower? (Do we have an example one?) Is a diagram better than a photograph? A lot of these diagram requests have no detail and are therefore probably rather hard for wouldbe illustrators to assess. (If you could drop me a line on my talk page when you reply, that would be grand.) thanks, pfctdayelise ( talk) 15:59, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
There is a skyscrapers wiki at HERE.
It would be helpful if this project contributed to it.
Houstontowers ( talk) 21:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
16 East Broad Street and
1600 Broadway are both up for deletion. The deletion discussions are at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/16 East Broad Street and
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1600 Broadway. --
Leitmanp (
talk |
contributions)
02:07, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Another article,
1000 Connecticut Avenue, is also up for deletion. Please see the discussion at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1000 Connecticut Avenue. Thanks.
Leitmanp (
talk |
contributions)
02:26, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Result was keep all. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 04:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
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For some reason, all buildings and projects over 101 m have disappeared from the city listing. (See Dubai, for example). As for buildings with only floor counts listed, all entries with 40 or more floors have also vanished. ( Look here). Does anyone know what happened? Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 07:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
After stumbling upon this website, I thought I would suggest that your project make a List of the tallest skylines in the world. It could have several columns like # high rises, # skyscrapers, average height of tallest 10 buildings, etc.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 15:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Several editors have recently been attempting to update the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat article. The problem is that the content was copied directly from the CTBUH website ( http://www.ctbuh.org). This is clearly a copyright violation. I have reverted the edits twice, but the editors have restored the article to their own version. I would appreciate some help in keeping the copyrighted content off the article and/or hopefully resolving this issue.
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Thanks. Leitmanp ( talk | contributions) 20:34, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
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Since I am not a building guy, I might have erred. I have seen the Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) move into the completed section of the tallest lists so I moved it in Template:Supertall skyscrapers, and Template:Chicago Skyscrapers.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 06:47, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
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