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I have always found Seattle's skyline to be one of the best on the west coast. Included in region?


69.70.145.236: What is special about the montreal skyline? I am curious as to why user 69.70.145.236 keeps adding montreal pictures. I used Chicago because it is the city that gave birth to the skyscraper and contains 3 of the top 20 tallest buildings in the world (only Hong Kong can equal that). Hong Kong has one of the fastest growing skylines. I used Sao Paulo to demonstrate the city's density, Cairo to show the contrast of old and new, and Sydney and Frankfurt because they are their respective continents most noteworthy skylines. I don't feel montreal has any of these assets.

The pictures are too Western-oriented, neglecting the growing Asian skylines. I am changing it to one from each continent, to best compare trends and growth

You forgot the most beautiful skyline in the world: Hong Kong! Please post a picture.

I linked to the picture on the Hong Kong page, although it's not exactly a skyline...but it's good enough. Adam Bishop 20:44, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] How many more?

I changed the list to a table of images, what do people think? Should the images be split into another article? Here are some other cities we could add: [- PHOTOS REMOVED -].

[edit] Change

I believe Belo Horizonte can be better represented by these pics:

http://www.chicorulez.com.br/bhrulez/vistadarm.jpg http://www.chicorulez.com.br/bhrulez/bhrulez1.jpg

Doidimais Brasil July 9, 2005 00:35 (UTC)

There aren't any photos on the page anymore, so there is no need to dicuss which photos to have. If you want photos of Skylines see Category:Skylines on Wikimedia Commons. Edward 2005-07-09 07:01:48 (UTC)
Since this is an article about Skylines, we should have at least one or two photos on that page, in the right hand column or some such. Although, we'd have to nominate which one(s) of them of them to put there. -- BMIComp (talk) 9 July 2005 07:21 (UTC)

Insanedrivers added a photo

[edit] Bias/Excessive/Unnecessary

'Best Skylines'? I believe this should be renamed to 'Most Impressive Skylines', in keeping with what the source is actually attempting to rank. Whoever gave the title 'Best Skylines' probably did so to suit their city. I also think that the amount of photos is excessive. Perhaps there should only be photos of the top five skylines. You can go to the individual page of a city to see a picture of its skyline. Likewise the list should be reduced from top twenty to, at most, top ten. Very few Wiki articles have lists that are so long unless it is making a useful contribution (eg. team lists, lists ranking only twenty of something, etc.). Top twenty seems arbitrary and has probably been chose to, again, suit somebody's favourite city.

I've taken on board these suggestions and made some changes. I reduced the list to top 10 and the photos to top 5. The page is now much neater and is more in line with Wiki standards. Ben Barone 7 July 2006 22:32 (EST)

[edit] This article

This article was made up entirely of original research, and what little sourcing there was did not nearly meet wikipedia's requirements for reliability and verifiability. Just because some website publishes lists of the "best" skylines by a variety of arbitrary reasons does not mean this information needs to make it into wikipedia. Furthermore, the list of skylines by region was indiscriminate. This article essentially needs a complete rewrite starting from a dictionary definition, which I have stubbed it to.-Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 05:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

The page ended up getting reverted, and I reverted again. Please do not just revert to the long but unsourced, unverifiable, list-filled, and POV version of the page. If there are specific parts of the previous version you want restored, you can do so using the page history, but please add reliable sources. Websites of unknown provenance that compile "best-of" lists are NOT reliable sources.-Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 04:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-Skyline Pictures

Image:Bangkok_at_Night.jpg, Image:Ortigas_full_moon.jpg and Image:New-York-Jan2005.jpg aren't depicting skylines. These three are pictures taken from an elevated point of view, depicting buildings more from above than as a silhouette or "the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates". In Image:New-York-Jan2005.jpg, not even a single building is projecting into the sky above the city! Therefore, nice as the pictures are, they don't fit into this article's scope and I will remove them from the gallery. Gestumblindi 23:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery deletion

I don't think it's appropriate for a single user to decide to delete a gallery, and to cite a failed AFD in defense of it. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 01:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Citing the failed AfD is very relevant. Just because an AfD failed doesn't mean that the discussion that took place there should be ignored. The consensus was there were too many pictures. The relevant views were - "Way too many pictures", "Ridiculously large galleries can be deleted to leave a short stub article", "needs massive cleanup", "take many pictures away", "toss the gallery", "Perhaps not the huge image gallery though", "the overload of pictures", "Article needs rewrite, clean up", "needs a rewrite". Also, note that there is already a link in the article to skyline images on Commons. Ha! (talk) 01:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
It is also not appropriate for a single user to decide to add a gallery, Bugs. The result of the afd was pretty much "It does not need to be deleted, but it needs to be cleaned up". The gallery was the biggest problem, so I got rid of it. Don't add a gallery without a good reason. --PlasmaTwa2 01:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)