Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers

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.

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.

News

 * August 8, 2021 - Singer Building gains featured article status.
 * July 20, 2020 - List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh featured on the Main Page as Today's featured list

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.

Guidelines

 * For articles relating to high-rises, skyscrapers, and towers, WikiProject Skyscrapers/Articles serves as a guideline for creating new structure articles, with an example article to base new articles on. For guidelines on writing and improving articles, see Guide to writing better articles for more information.
 * For tallest building lists, WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists has a complete outline of list formatting and an example list to bases new city entries on.
 * For building lists, which list all notable structures in a city, buildings should generally be listed in alphabetical order.

Participants
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.

There are also two additional lists for semi-active and inactive members who have few or no edits in the last 365 days respectively. If you have recently returned to Wikipedia after an extended absence and can't find your name below, it may have been moved to one of those; please feel free to move it back. You may also move your own name to from here to the inactive participants list at any time if you wish to cease participating in the project or retire from Wikipedia.

Semi-Active Participants
This list includes members who have seldom edited over the last 365 days. Members in this group should not receive project notifications unless they explicitly opt-in in order to avoid talk page clutter. Members who have not edited in over 365 days should be moved to the inactive list. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active members list whenever you decide to return to full activity, or alternatively, to move it from here to the inactive participants if you wish to cease participating in the project or retire from Wikipedia.

Inactive Participants
This list includes members who have not edited for at least 365 days, or have otherwise indicated permanent retirement from the project or from Wikipedia. No project notifications should be sent to them. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active members list upon your return.

Thanks for all the time and effort you volunteered for the project.

Featured articles
As of November 2019, five featured articles have a Skyscrapers project tag:


 * Chicago Board of Trade Building
 * Construction of Rockefeller Center
 * Construction of the World Trade Center
 * Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
 * Monadnock Building

Featured lists
As of November 2019, 40 featured lists have a Skyscrapers project tag:
 * List of tallest buildings in Albuquerque
 * List of tallest buildings in Atlanta
 * List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington
 * List of tallest buildings in Boston
 * List of tallest buildings in Brooklyn
 * List of tallest buildings in Bucharest
 * List of tallest buildings in Chicago
 * List of tallest buildings in Cleveland
 * List of tallest buildings in Columbus, Ohio
 * List of tallest buildings in Dayton
 * List of tallest buildings in Denver
 * List of tallest buildings in Detroit
 * List of tallest buildings in Dubai
 * List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
 * List of tallest buildings in Houston
 * List of tallest buildings in Indianapolis
 * List of tallest buildings in Jersey City
 * List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas
 * List of tallest buildings and structures in London
 * List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles
 * List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester
 * List of tallest buildings in Miami
 * List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis
 * List of tallest buildings in Mobile
 * List of tallest buildings in New Orleans
 * List of tallest buildings in New York City
 * List of tallest buildings in Oakland, California
 * List of tallest buildings in Oklahoma City
 * List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
 * List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh
 * List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon
 * List of tallest buildings in Rhode Island
 * List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford
 * List of tallest buildings in San Diego
 * List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
 * List of tallest buildings in Seattle
 * List of tallest buildings in Shanghai
 * List of tallest buildings and structures in Tokyo
 * List of tallest buildings in Tampa
 * List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C.
 * List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C.

Featured pictures



 * File:4_cilindros_y_museo_BMW,_M%C3%BAnich,_Alemania_2012-04-28,_DD_02.JPG
 * File:30 St Mary Axe - The Gherkin from Leadenhall St - Nov 2006.jpg
 * File:Bangkok skytrain sunset.jpg
 * File:Calle_E_Monroe_St,_Chicago,_Illinois,_Estados_Unidos,_2012-10-20,_DD_04.jpg
 * File:Chicago_Skyline_Hi-Res.jpg
 * File:Chicago_sunrise_1.jpg
 * File:Melbourne Docklands - Yarras Edge - marina panorama.jpg
 * File:Montreal Twilight Panorama 2006.jpg
 * File:NYC Top of the Rock Pano.jpg
 * File:SeattleI5Skyline.jpg
 * File:Skyline Frankfurt am Main.jpg
 * File:Torre Agbar - Barcelona, Spain - Jan 2007.jpg
 * File:View of Woolworth Building fixed.jpg

Featured pictures on Commons

 * File:Lower Manhattan from Staten Island Ferry Jan 2006.jpg
 * File:Moon Monster2.jpg
 * File:Portland Night panorama edit.jpg
 * File:San Diego Reflecting Pond.jpg


 * File:September 14 2001.jpg

Former featured content

 * List of tallest buildings in Austin
 * List of tallest buildings in Baltimore
 * List of tallest buildings in Charlotte
 * List of tallest buildings in Dallas
 * List of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris region
 * List of tallest buildings in Singapore
 * List of tallest buildings in Toronto
 * List of tallest buildings in Tulsa
 * List of tallest buildings in Vancouver

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.


 * Haitian Center Tower 2 - 13 November 2020
 * Evergrande Center - 11 November 2020
 * Carnegie Building (Atlanta) - 14 January 2020
 * 110 East 42nd Street - 30 October 2019
 * Tulsa Club Building - 11 October 2019
 * One Hundred Above the Park - 5 October 2019
 * Blue Flame Building - 13 September 2019
 * The Lumen (Cleveland) - 2 September 2019
 * 7Seventy7 - 13 July 2019
 * Essex on the Park - 11 July 2019
 * The Estate Makati - 4 July 2019
 * Re:Invent - 29 June 2019
 * Skyline Tower (Queens) - 24 June 2019
 * Block_216 - 20 June 2019
 * Tower Fifth - 17 June 2019‎
 * Park Avenue Tower - 4 June 2019
 * 450 Park Avenue - 3 June 2019
 * 3 Manhattan West - 28 May 2019
 * Bestseller Tower - 1 April 2019
 * Aziz Court Imperial - 25 March 2019
 * Zero-2-One - 22 March 2019‎
 * River District (Chicago) - 19 February 2019
 * Fifth & West Residences - 2 February 2019
 * Burj Jumeirah - 1 February 2019


 * DYKs


 * 500 Fifth Avenue - 20 November 2019
 * Beekman Tower - 12 November 2019
 * Essex on the Park - 29 September 2019
 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building - 4 April 2019

Collaboration and review

 * Collaboration of the week

Note: As this is a daughter project of WikiProject Architecture and WikiProject Engineering, please feel free to use WikiProject Architecture/Peer review or WikiProject Engineering/Peer review as alternatives.
 * Peer review
 * Assessment
 * Assessment

Assessments
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:

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


 * November 8, 2007: Article tagging and assessments have been implemented.
 * November 10, 2007: Over 750 pages have been tagged and more than 500 articles have been assessed.
 * December 18, 2007: Over 1500 pages tagged and assessed.
 * August 1, 2008: Over 1850 pages tagged and assessed.
 * September 4, 2008: Over 2000 pages tagged and assessed.
 * November 30, 2015: Over 3600 pages tagged and assessed.
 * November 12, 2019: Over 4200 pages tagged and assessed.

Templates and project size

 * For articles
 * Infobox building
 * TBSW
 * China tallest buildings lists
 * Tallest buildings in Japan
 * UK tallest buildings lists
 * US tallest buildings lists
 * For talk pages
 * Skyscrapers
 * Skyscrapers
 * Skyscrapers
 * Skyscrapers
 * Skyscrapers
 * For user pages and user talk pages
 * WikiProject Skyscrapers/Invitation
 * WikiProject Skyscrapers/Welcome
 * User WP Skyscrapers
 * User WP Skyscrapers

WikiProject Skyscrapers tag
The Skyscrapers template can be used for tagging different types of pages:

Categorization
The root categories for this WikiProject are Category:Skyscrapers and Category:Towers. Both root categories and their associated subcategories should be tagged with. 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 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, area-specific, and city-specific skyscraper category as neccesary, e.g. Category:Skyscrapers in the United States, Category:Skyscrapers in Osaka Prefecture, Category:Skyscrapers in Dubai. 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
 * Category:Art Deco skyscrapers
 * Category:Skyscrapers by city
 * Category:Skyscrapers by country
 * Category:Former world's tallest buildings
 * Category:Residential skyscrapers
 * Category:Skyscraper hotels


 * Towers
 * Category:Bell towers
 * Category:Campaniles
 * Category:Chimneys
 * Category:Clock towers
 * Category:Towers by country
 * Category:Fictional towers
 * Category:Guyed masts
 * Category:Inclined towers
 * Category:Pylons
 * Category:Shot towers
 * Category:Water towers

Images
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. Beware that certain countries do not have freedom of panorama. In accordance with Copyrights, files that are subject to copyright should not be used in any article. For further details, see Freedom of panorama.

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

Issues of ongoing concern

 * Any patterns of of obvious vandalism should be reported to AIV, once the perpetrator has been appropriately warned.


 * Copyright violations should be reported to CP for text or FFD for files. Particularly wide-ranging problems may be reported to CCI.


 * Violations of the three revert rule, or obvious but extended edit warring should be reported to AN/EW.


 * The spamming of unsourced changes may also be reported to AIV if the offending user has ignored warnings to stop following a discussion.


 * Other issues that fall below these levels of concern, i.e. do not require immediate action, can be listed below or addressed on the talk page here, or on the architecture, or engineering talk pages for wider input. This may include reports of persistent but low levels of vandalism, pages that need some additional watching, talk page discussions that need wider input, current XFDs or RFCs that concern the project, etc.

Current issues listed here:


 * See Articles for deletion/List of tallest buildings in Ludhiana. Discussion closed as delete 25 November 2019.

Please consider adding persistently vandalized articles to your watchlist, to help in reverting, and to counter any vandalism that resumes once semi-protection expires. Even during the period of semi-protection, some articles continue to be vandalized by recently registered accounts. Registered users who chronically vandalize articles can be reported to AIV even if they have not received many recent warnings if the user is obviously NOTHERE, or running a VOA. Unregistered users (or IPs) may also be reported with few or no recent warnings if they resume disruption immediately upon expiry of a previous block.

If you find any other articles within the scope of this project which are being heavily vandalized by multiple users whether registered, unregistered, or some combination of both, so that requesting individual blocks is unlikely to prove effective (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 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.

CTBUH

 * CTBUH Tall Building Database
 * CTBUH Global Tall Building News (Please cite the original source as this website is a hub for global tall building news)
 * CTBUH Research Paper Library (Require application; a good start to find in-depth sources about anything that related to the skyscraper)

Other databases

 * Emporis.com
 * SkyscraperPage.com City Diagrams
 * Structurae.de
 * Phorio.com

Journals, magazines, newspapers, and others

 * ArchDaily
 * Architects' Journal (For United Kingdom)
 * Architectural Digest
 * Construction News (For United Kingdom)
 * Construction Week Online (For Middle East)
 * Construction Kenya
 * Curbed (For United States)
 * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
 * New York YIMBY
 * UrbanToronto

Parent projects

 * WikiProject Architecture
 * WikiProject Engineering

Other projects

 * WikiProject Civil engineering
 * WikiProject Urban studies and planning