Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Featured Topic Drive

New Proposal for FTD

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This proposal is now the new scope of the FTD. Cheers, Rai • me  13:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I am starting to doubt that this featured topic, as currently proposed, will pass at WP:FTC. Ranking skylines is likely an acceptable topic, but the problem is that List of tallest buildings in the United States is not an appropriate lead article for that topic, and an article such as List of tallest skylines in the United States or List of largest skylines in the United States would likely never pass as featured lists due to issues with original research. Basing our topic criteria on number of a buildings in a city over 500 feet might also receive criticism at WP:FTC. Also, it seems a little strange to have List of tallest buildings in Baltimore as a sub-article for a List of tallest buildings in the United States-led featured topic when no Baltimore buildingsappear in the U.S. list. So, I have drafted a new proposal to use as a basis for a new proposed featured topic based on United States cities' tallest building lists. If you have time, please review and comment below.

Proposal
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 each city with a building listed on List of tallest buildings in the United States into individual Featured lists and then the entire subject into a Featured topic, with the main United States list serving as the lead article.

Scope
The proposed FT would 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, will not be included unless the aforementioned buildings begin construction. The last two columns are for reference purposes only.

Therefore, two cities, Indinanapolis and Mobile, will be added to the scope. This means that three remaining lists will need to become Fls: List of tallest buildings in the United States, List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas, and List of tallest buildings in Mobile (the latter may be exempt because of its short length, but still needs to be of FL-quality). Four cities, Columbus, New Orleans, Tulsa, and Tampa, would be removed from the scope of the proposed FT.

Cities that have proposed 700 ft+ skyscrapers
The following cities have no completed or under construction buildings at least 700 ft high, but they do have ones that are proposed or approved. Before submitting this FT, we should try to make each of these an FL should it be requested by a reviewer or should a building begin construction.

Comments
What do other users think?
 * Since there are no objections, I am going to alter the scope of the featured topic drive. Cheers, Rai • me  13:25, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.