Talk:Canary Wharf

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The IRA bomb that killed two people was at South Quay, not Canary Wharf - after the foiled attempt to blow up Canary Wharf itself (following two equally large bombs in the City of London) security at the Canary Wharf development was tightened considerably, so the IRA instead hit South Quay, just to the south. Because most people (in Britain at least) have heard of Canary Wharf, there's a tendency to call almost everywhere on the Isle of Dogs Canary Wharf.

I'll also update the South Quay DLR station entry accordingly.

The whole article rather conflated CW and Docklands. CW was something that happened to LDDC not something they did. I've fleshed out the history, meaning that my vast amount of time working in or writing about the London property market wasn't entirely wasted. Icundell 18:30, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Great job! The article looks much better now. honeydew 21:44, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nice to be appreciated - and ta muchly for the copyedit jon on the Economic geography page. Wow, I left some howlers in there. Icundell 21:52, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Tallest? 2 How high is it? 3 See also 4 Huge deletions 5 Banning of the protest march 6 Copyvio? 7 Canary Wharf protest 8 Reuters Plaza

[edit] Tallest?

I may be mistaken, but i believe they are no longer the tallest buildings. I think that award has to go to the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth. Can anyone confirm?

Someone is messing around with this. Canary Wharf does have the top 3 tallest buildings in the UK. The NatWest tower (or Tower42 as it is now) is NOT the tallest. Tallest buildings in the London are 1st - 1 Canada Square (235.1m); 2nd (equal) - 8 & 25 Canada Square i.e. HSBC and Citigroup buildings (199.5m) and 4th Tower42 (183m). (Source: http://skyscraperpage.com). The Spinnaker Tower is even shorter than these at 170m (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4326932.stm). I will try and edit the page accordingly, but I suspect that this is one of those where people will keep editing it back. Mister Ant 07:38, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How high is it?

Can anyone put how high the building is and how much office space does it have ? [[User:Robin48gx|Robin48gx]Sat Aug 27 13:31:34 BST 2005]

Which building? Canary Wharf is the name for the whole development. 83.245.24.88 19:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] See also

Does the see also section make any sense at all? Many of the linked articles have an almost identical 'see also' sections, so I guess the idea that all these cities have similar business/industial suburbs. If so they could all use a better introduction to the see also section. -- Solipsist 23:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany is also more or less similar (in idea) to Canary Wharf -- 172.178.182.82 12:26, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huge deletions

Where did Howard Dawber's additiosn go? Did someone just rv to the an ancient version? Icundell 12:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banning of the protest march

The banning of a protest march in a major section of the capital is very important socially, economically, and in terms of basic human rights in a free democracy

The “despicable” banning of the protest march is an important point in the continuing story of the liberalisation of labour and the widening gap between rich and poor in Anglo-Saxon economies.

The trite drivel of the current page does nothing to tell the reader of the huge undercurrent of resentment that such high-handed treatment and oppression idiots such as those at Canary Wharf are causing.

The entry is truthful, accurate and topical. It is also part of the history of this ghastly development and the awful oppression of its poorly paid workers.

Yes, the Wharf has many hidden aspects. Gordo 21:18, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio?

Part of the section "The Idea of Canary Wharf is born" seems to be copied from [1], which states that copyright of the text is held by English Partnerships, having inherited the copyright of LDDC. Almost the same section is found in the article about G Ware Travelstead. Maybe someone should take a closer look at this. /130.243.135.41 22:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I believe that we have permission to use the LDDC text. Howard Dawber 03:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, apparently you do, as you seem to be the one who added it to the articles. However, Crown copyrighted material, as I think the LDDC text is, is usually not allowed in Wikipedia. If English Partnerships agrees to publish the material under the GNU Free Documentation License or a compatible license, as described on the page Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission, the text can be included, but otherwise it will unfortunately have to be deleted. /217.208.24.136 21:47, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canary Wharf protest

This comment should remain. Why remove it?

[edit] Reuters Plaza

Hello. Does anybody think that this image could make it onto the page? It kind of shows what the Canary Wharf area is like after work. By the way, the area with the clocks outside the station is called Reuters Plaza. The Blackfriar 22:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)