Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers

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WikiProject Skyscrapers

The Empire State Building in New York City
Shortcuts: WP:SKY, WP:SKYS, WP:SKYSCR
WP:TALL, WP:SKYSCRAPER
Category: Skyscrapers, Towers
Portal: Portal:Architecture Architecture Portal, Portal:EngineeringEngineering Portal
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Welcome to WikiProject Skyscrapers. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Skyscrapers and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

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[edit] Goals

This WikiProject aims:

  1. To improve Wikipedia's coverage of skyscrapers by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles relating to skyscrapers, highrises, towers, building lists and related articles.
  2. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles related to skyscrapers.
  3. To serve as a point of discussion for issues related to skyscrapers in general in Wikipedia.

[edit] News

[edit] Scope

  • All articles relating to skyscrapers, high-rises, and towers are considered to be within the scope of this project. This includes all "tallest building" lists.

Please feel free to join the project and expand its scope in any necessary directions

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Requests:
    Identify articles needing creation.
  • Expand:
    Expand skyscraper articles which are stubs; this can be accomplished by adding relevant information, using proper referencing, and adding images.
  • Other:
    • Add the WikiProject Skyscrapers message box {{Skyscrapers}} to talk pages of articles within the scope of this project, including appropriate assessments if needed.
    • Assess all articles and lists with quality and importance ratings.
    • Ensure that all skyscrapers and towers are properly noted as such in the article text, with proper references.
    • Add appropriate skyscraper-type categories to articles, and verify the accuracy of any existing categories. See the section "Categorization" below.
    • Add images to skyscraper / tower articles tagged with imageneeded=yes. Project articles that don't have images can be found at Category:Wikiproject Skyscrapers articles needing images.
    • Add skyscraper-related fields to existing infoboxes if these are missing.
    • Add accurate conversions of heights and floor areas to all articles.
    • Invite more members using the template {{WikiProject Skyscrapers/Invitation}}
    • Welcome any new members using the template {{WikiProject Skyscrapers/Welcome}}
    • Add references to the corresponding articles or lists tagged with unref=yes on the article / list talk page. Unreferenced articles can be found at Category:Unreferenced skyscraper articles. This can also be followed by the addition of the {{noref}} or {{refimprove}} templates to article pages.
    • Address issues associated with articles / lists / templates / categories / images / project pages if the project banner located on the corresponding talk page is tagged with attention=yes. Pages in need of attention can be found at Category:Skyscraper pages needing attention.

[edit] Participants

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Members should also feel free to add {{User WP Skyscrapers}} or {{User WP Skyscrapers2}} to their user pages to identify themselves as members of this project. The appearance of the userbox is shown to the right.




User Area of interest Comments
Raime (talk · contribs)
Sahmeditor (talk · contribs) Wherever I become equipped with knowledge
Hydrogen Iodide (talk · contribs) Just about any place that has tall buildings or Manhattanization.
Huang7776 (talk · contribs)
And-Rew (talk · contribs) UK Skyscrapers, especially in Manchester
Astronaut (talk · contribs)
VerruckteDan (talk · contribs)
Leitmanp (talk · contribs) Skyscrapers and general development in Dubai
EaglesFanInTampa (talk · contribs) Mainly East Coast buildings (since I've seen most of them) and famous ones
Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs) Probably primarily limited copyediting and tagging/assessment, unfortunately
OOODDD (talk · contribs) Pretty much any kind of skyscrapers
Jklamo (talk · contribs)
Averette (talk · contribs) Mostly Miami, but I travel to other major cities about twice a year.
Izzudin (talk · contribs) Any super-tall buildings...
Taifarious1 (talk · contribs) Any Sky Scrapers in the world, but more importantly, New Zealand and USA.
Simalto (talk · contribs) Canada, translation, and any other skyscraper.
Erebus555 (talk · contribs) Mainly British skyscraper and highrise articles but occasionally goes international.
Trulystand700 (talk · contribs) Any Skyscraper
Angcr (talk · contribs) Skyscrapers in Singapore and South-East Asia
huaiwei (talk · contribs) Singaporean, Asian, and just about any high-rise building or structure there is! Senior Editor with Emporis and former moderator in SkyscraperCity
Basketball110 (talk · contribs) Dallas, Bucharest, London
Thomas Paine1776 (talk · contribs)
Alaskan assassin (talk · contribs)
Blue Laser (talk · contribs) American and Canadian skyscrapers.
Juthani1 (talk · contribs)
Joowwww (talk · contribs) Hong Kong and Shanghai skyscrapers for now.
Matthewedwards (talk · contribs) None in particular, though I am quite happy to do image mapping (see the lead image at List of tallest buildings in Jersey City)
Houstontowers (talk · contribs) History of skyscrapers; Texas, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Washington, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Nashville, Albuquerque, Charlotte, Florida, Miami, Miami Beach, Jacksonville, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Buffalo, Ohio, Cleveland, Columbus, Jersey City, Providence, Tulsa, and tallest west of the mississippi. In Progress: None.

Future Projects for me will include Portland and Des Moines.
Timsdad (talk · contribs) Mainly skyscrapers and tall buildings in Australia, but also interested in improving pages on new structures and developments in Dubai and the United States. Also creating new and updating existing diagrams Significantly developed this list and started this list. Diagrams: see Image:Tallest Buildings new3.png and Image:Tallest buildings and structures in australia.PNG
DubaiTerminator (talk · contribs) Skyscrapers located in Chicago, New York City, Shanghai, and mainly Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Chicago Spire, Burj Dubai, Sears Tower, and many more skyscrapers.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

As of mid December 2007, three featured articles have been given a {{Skyscrapers}} project tag:

[edit] Featured lists

As of May 2008, 24 featured lists have been given a {{Skyscrapers}} project tag:

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured pictures on Commons

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Skyscrapers-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. If you would like to request the creation of a particular article, please post on the project talk page.

DYKs

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review

Note: As this is a daughter project of WikiProject Architecture, please feel free to use Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review as an alternative peer review process.

Assessment
Skyscraper
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 1 3
Featured list FL 2 9 11 2 24
A 1 1 1 1 4
Good article GA 3 4 2 6 15
B 10 2 4 22 38
Start 9 6 31 22 311 379
Stub 7 12 15 129 1034 1197
List 2 2 3 4 3 14
Assessed 34 34 70 157 1379 1674
Unassessed 32 32
Total 34 34 70 157 1411 1706

In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the {{Skyscrapers}} project banner on an article's talk page:

{{Skyscraper | class= | importance= }}

The statistics at right are updated daily (or every other day) by an automated bot. See the subpage /Assessment for details.

  • November 8: Article tagging and assessments have been implemented.
  • November 10: Over 750 pages have been tagged and more than 500 articles have been assessed.
  • December 18: Over 1500 pages tagged and assessed.

[edit] Templates and project size

For articles
For talk pages
For user pages and user talk pages

[edit] Multiple WikiProject Skyscrapers tags

The original {{Skyscrapers}} template has now been supplemented by four additional ones for tagging different types of pages:

Template Page type Category for tagged pages   Number of tagged pages  
{{Skyscrapers}} Articles and lists Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers articles and lists 1,572
  {{Skyscraper category}}   Categories Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers categories 176
{{Skyscraper template}} Templates Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers templates 17
{{Skyscraper project}} Project pages   Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers project pages   5
{{Skyscraper image}} Images Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers images 567
Total tagged pages as of May 17, 2008   2,337

[edit] Categorization

The root categories for this WikiProject are Category:Skyscrapers and Category:Towers. Both root categories and their associated subcategories should be tagged with {{Skyscraper category}}. Please note that both main categories themselves are subcategories of Category:Buildings and structures, which contains some categories that are out of scope of this project. Consider discussing with other project members if you are unsure if a particular category belongs to this project before adding {{Skyscraper category}} on the category talk page.

The major categories, Category:Skyscrapers and Category:Towers, should be reserved for articles about types of skyscrapers and towers, respectively, while specific individual skyscrapers, towers and high-rises should be listed in the appropriate subcategories.

If an article about a skyscraper is added to the project, please ensure that it has the correct country-specific, region-specific, or height-specific skyscraper category, e.g. Category:Skyscrapers in the United States, Category:Skyscrapers in San Francisco, Category:Skyscrapers over 350 meters. For towers, please ensure that it has the correct country-specific, region-specific, or type-specific tower category, e.g. Category:Clock towers in Turkey , Category:Pylons, Category:Fictional towers. Also consider adding a link to the article in the appropriate list article, such as List of tallest buildings in New York City, List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong, List of towers, etc.

Next, please ensure that it has the correct skyscraper and/or tower type categories (one or more, in some cases). Here are some major categories for skyscrapers and towers:

Skyscrapers
Towers

[edit] Images

Commons logo
Wikimedia Commons has image media such as pictures and art related to:

Wikimedia Commons has many images of skyscrapers, towers and city skylines. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations.

Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching on Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.

[edit] Issues of ongoing concern

Please report vandalism, copyright violations, addition of unsourced material and edit-warring to skyscraper / tower articles here:

(none)

Please consider adding these articles to your watchlist, to help in reverting the ongoing vandalism which is certain to resume once semi-protection expires. Even during the period of semi-protection, some articles continue to be vandalized by recently registered accounts. Consider reporting users who chronically vandalize articles to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

If you find any other articles within the scope of this project which are being heavily vandalized (as a rough standard, over 10 vandals per day, or continual vandalism for several days such that the last 50+ edits are all vandalism and reverts, or 10+ vandalism / revert edits in 30 minutes), please report them at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and add them to the list above.

More articles or pages in need of attention could be found here at Category:Unreferenced skyscraper articles and Category:Skyscraper pages needing attention.

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