Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Featured Topic Drive

This page is an effort to bring the United States tallest building lists up to Featured topic status. It is based on WP:HOCKEY/FTD, a recent Featured Topic Drive that similarly focused on Hockey Award FLs. The purpose of this page is to make the tallest building lists of the 20 largest skylines in the United States into individual Featured lists and then the entire subject into a Featured topic.

If you have any questions, simply leave a note on the talk page. If you would like to participate, please add your name to the Participants list below.

Tasks
There are several ways you could participate in this process. Here are just a few:
 * Work on building lists covered by the FT drive, and help bring them to FL status.
 * Review FL candidates at WP:FLC, and help indetify problems with the list candidates so that they can be addressed and the list can be passed.
 * Note: It is generally not be a good idea to vote support in building list candidacies nominated by another member of this drive. This may appear to be vote fixing, and is discouraged at WP:FLC and could hinder attempts to get the FT passed at WP:FTC. However, if a user who is a part of the drive brings up concerns at the candidacy (i.e., you originally Oppose based on some issues), and they are addressed, then this would be an acceptable situation for that user to offer Support.
 * Take photos of prominent buildings for use in the building lists, if you live in one of the cities.
 * Identify articles below you are interested or willing to "claim".
 * Nominate and review already featured building lists at WikiProject Architecture/Peer review.

Participants
If you are interested in working on this FTD, please just sign your name below using  three  tildes :
 * Rai - me
 * Hydrogen Iodide (HI!)
 * Cherub79 (talk)
 * Zonafan39 (talk)

Scope
The FTD has gone through several different scopes; originally intended to include the twenty largest skylines in the US in a single featured topic List of tallest buildings in the United States, the drive has been revised to include all tallest buildings lists in the US (as listed on US tallest buildings lists) per this discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured topic questions. However, the scope is split into four different featured topics based on the four Census Bureau-designated regions of the U.S. - the Northeast, South, Midwest, and West. List of tallest buildings in the United States would remain the lead article for each, although the link would be "hidden" with the displayed title "List of tallest buildings in the Northeastern United States".

The new revised scope could take years to complete, but it is a good long-term goal for the project and will allow for the cleanup of several tallest building lists of smaller cities that may have otherwise been overlooked. An overview list of which lists would be included in which featured topic are listed here.

Northeastern United States
This featured topic would include lists. Lists that are already FLs are marked accordingly, and all redlinks are lists that need to be created.
 * 1)  List of tallest buildings in Boston
 * 2)  List of tallest buildings in Jersey City
 * 3)  List of tallest buildings in New York City
 * 4)  List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
 * 5)  List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh
 * 6)  List of tallest buildings in Providence
 * 7) List of tallest buildings in Albany
 * 8) List of tallest buildings in Atlantic City
 * 9) List of tallest buildings in Buffalo
 * 10) List of tallest buildings in Erie
 * 11) List of tallest buildings in Harrisburg
 * 12) List of tallest buildings in Hartford
 * 13) List of tallest buildings in New Haven
 * 14) List of tallest buildings in Newark
 * 15) List of tallest buildings in Rochester, New York
 * 16) List of tallest buildings in Syracuse, New York
 * 17) List of tallest buildings in Springfield, Massachusetts
 * 18) List of tallest buildings in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Original scope
The FT as originally propsoed would have include the building lists for all U.S. cities with completed or under construction buildings listed on List of tallest buildings in the United States. Cities with proposed or approved skyscrapers that are listed on the US list (that is, cities with proposed buildings 700 ft or taller), but no completed or under construction skyscrapers on the list, would not have been included. The last two columns were for reference purposes only.

Old scope
The original scope of the proposed FT would have included the building lists for the cities with the "largest" 20 skylines in the United States. In this case, skylines will be ranked by the number of buildings over 500 feet (122 m) that are built or under construction in a city. This methodology is mostly used to include cities such as Miami and Las Vegas, which have few completed buildings compared to under construction buildings. The scope of the original proposed Ft included tallest buildings lists for the cities of New York City, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Las Vegas, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Jersey City, Minneapolis, Denver, Detroit, Charlotte, Columbus, Cleveland, New Orleans, Tulsa, and Tampa.

This scope was altered, because several cities included in the FT did not have buildings on List of tallest buildings in the United States. It didn't really make sense for List of tallest buildings in Baltimore, for example, to be included in an FT with List of tallest buildings in the United States as the central article when no Baltimore buildings appeared in the main U.S. list. After a proposal on the talk page, the scope was changed to its current status.

Progress

 * Northeatern United States
 * 1)  List of tallest buildings in Boston
 * 2)  List of tallest buildings in Jersey City
 * 3)  List of tallest buildings in New York City
 * 4)  List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
 * 5)  List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh
 * 6)  List of tallest buildings in Providence


 * Midwestern United States
 * 1)  List of tallest buildings in Chicago
 * 2)  List of tallest buildings in Cleveland
 * 3)  List of tallest buildings in Columbus, Ohio
 * 4)  List of tallest buildings in Detroit
 * 5)  List of tallest buildings in Indianapolis
 * 6)  List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis


 * Southern United States
 * 1)  List of tallest buildings in Atlanta
 * 2)  List of tallest buildings in Baltimore
 * 3)  List of tallest buildings in Charlotte
 * 4)  List of tallest buildings in Dallas
 * 5)  List of tallest buildings in Houston
 * 6)  List of tallest buildings in Miami
 * 7)  List of tallest buildings in New Orleans
 * 8)  List of tallest buildings in Oklahoma City
 * 9)  List of tallest buildings in Tampa
 * 10)  List of tallest buildings in Tulsa
 * 11)  List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C.


 * Western United States
 * 1)  List of tallest buildings in Albuquerque
 * 2)  List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington
 * 3)  List of tallest buildings in Denver
 * 4)  List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas
 * 5)  List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles
 * 6)  List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon
 * 7)  List of tallest buildings in San Diego
 * 8)  List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
 * 9)  List of tallest buildings in Seattle

Featured List candidates

 * 1) List of tallest buildings in Milwaukee (FLC)

Featured Topic criteria

 * 1) The articles should have a clear similarity with each other, should be in the same category, and should be grouped under one collective name that does not arbitrarily exclude items.
 * 2) The topic should have a lead article (List of tallest buildings in the United States), which introduces and summarises the topic.
 * 3) There must be at least three separate articles.
 * 4) All articles in the series should be linked together, preferably using a template.
 * 5) There should not be any obvious gap (missing or stub article) in the topic.
 * 6) Each article should be of a good quality, including references. Not all articles need be featured class, but several should be.  The rest must be all Good Articles or A class except where achieving such a class is impossible.  Expect an audit of all articles not Featured or Good status to ensure that they are of a quality consistent enough with the other topics.

Recommendations
As well as these requirements, the following are recommended:
 * The structure of the articles should be similar, having the same section titles and order where possible.
 * The articles should use a common infobox when reasonable.
 * Each article should have been peer reviewed.
 * The topic should not be too big. There is no maximum number of articles, but as a rule-of-thumb any topic with more than 20 entries can likely be broken down into sub-topics.  For example, Science fiction movies would be too large a topic, but Star Trek movies would be good.  This rule-of-thumb does not apply to items in a series.  For example, every article from 1st Canadian Parliament to 39th Canadian Parliament could be included in one topic.