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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.

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

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

Open tasks

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.

 Retired List

Articles and files

Featured content

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

As of November 2019, 40 featured lists have a {{Skyscrapers}} project tag:

Former featured content

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

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review

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

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:

{{WikiProject Skyscrapers| 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, 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
For talk pages
For user pages and user talk pages

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 {{WikiProject Skyscrapers}}. 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 {{WikiProject Skyscrapers}} 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
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 Wikipedia:Copyrights, files that are subject to copyright should not be used in any article. For further details, see Commons:Freedom of panorama#Situation in different countries.

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.
  • 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:

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 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.

Resources

CTBUH

Other databases

Journals, magazines, newspapers, and others

Parent projects

Other projects

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