User talk:Houstonbuildings

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Little context in Niels Esperson Building

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Your move of Chicago

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Short articles on tall buildings

Hi. I noticed you've been creating some rather stubby articles on skyscrapers and other buildings. While it's better to have short articles than no articles at all, some of the articles you're creating provide no context to the reader. For example, Alaska Building in Seattle doesn't say anything about where it's located, what it was originally used for, or what it's currently used for. Also, it isn't located in any category (such as Category:Buildings and structures in Seattle), so it's hard to find the article.

Would you be willing to add a little more information to the articles when you create them? That way, other editors can expand on the articles. Structurae and Emporis are good places to find some of the basic information. If you can fill in a little more information about these buildings, it'll make it easier for readers and other editors. Thanks. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 17:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please start adding references, infoboxes and categorys to your articles? It would really improve your articles and decrease there chances of being nominated for deletion. Also it would make them a lot easier to improve. Alaskan assassin (talk) 23:03, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Skyscrapers/Articles#Example. Cheers. _{Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond} 18:52, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That example and the description preceding the sample will show you the basics of a skyscraper / highrise article. Cheers. _{Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond} 18:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As a note: List of tallest buildings in San Diego, List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas, and List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington have too many redlinks. If you have the time, consider creating articles for buildings in those cities. Cheers. _{Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond} 19:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fitzgeralds Casino Hotel Las Vegas

Hello. The Fitzgeralds Casino Hotel Las Vegas article that you contributed apparently duplicates the Fitzgeralds Las Vegas article. The duplicate article has been redirected to Fitzgeralds Las Vegas. Content will be merged as it is verified. Please note that you did not cite sources or references. • Gene93k (talk) 19:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

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If you do chose to join, do you think you could also join Featured Topic Drive? Me and three other editors are trying to imporve the tallest building list of the U.S. to feautured. You could probaly help out making articlus for the redinks, and improving the list. Alaskan assassin (talk) 23:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Ritz Plaza Hotel

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References needed for Barnett National Bank Building

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Timeline of tallest buildings

Houstontowers, I noticed that you have made many edits concerning buildings that were at one time the tallest in the city or state. I was wondering if you could have a look at List of tallest buildings in the United States#Timeline of tallest buildings, where there is a list of buildings that once stood as the tallest in the United States. I used SkyscraperPage diagrams to create the timeline, but I believe that there are some errors. I explained by concerns at Talk:List of tallest buildings in the United States#Timeline. I would be grateful if you could make any necessary changes. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 00:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of 1801 California Street

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Tallest buildings in Toronto/Canada

Good work with the templates, they're quite useful. Were you planning to do a tallest buildings in the British Empire/Commonwealth one? If not, no big deal, since I'm pretty sure they're the same as tallest in Canada up to the Petronas Towers. Keep up the good work! -Oreo Priest ^talk 19:11, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed an error: according to the template, Trader's Bank Building (Toronto) (60m) is replaced by Dominion Building (53m) as tallest in Canada. Could you fix this? Thanks, Oreo Priest ^talk 12:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of 16 East Broad Street

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Re:Skyscraper Wiki

Thanks for the invitation; I definitely plan to sign up and contribute at some point, but right now I am a little too busy in real life; Wikipedia is all that I can handle at the time being! ;-) Cheers, Rai•me 01:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Houston montage

Hi, the montage is a great idea and you did a great job with the current montage. You second version looks much better. My only problem is several of the images used within the montage. The TMC and Astrodome images I think are bad. I wish we had some better images. The other cities have the best images available representing their city. The Houston article is a featured article, we should also have the best. Thanks, Postoak (talk) 19:42, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think better choices for the montage would be -

Statue of Sam Houston in Hermann Park - here's one but it should be close up and centered.
A ship docked at the ship channel
a better picture of the Astrodome
the San Jacinto Monument
downtown
better pictre of TMC

Postoak (talk) 19:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bill White

I was looking for the discussion about the Bill White page move, but I can't even find the talk page. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I recently moved Bill White (Disambiguation) to Bill White using admin tools per a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disambiguation/Malplaced_disambiguation_pages. If you stronly disagree with this move because you feel there is a primary meaning, please let me know so that I can undo my move. Since User:Tassedethe made the move request, you may also want to approach him/her. – sgeureka ^t•c 09:56, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was just about to make Bill White (mayor) the primary topic when I noticed this article has never physically been at the spot of Bill White, and that Bill White has always been either a disambigation page or a redirect to the mayor. May I suggest that you take this to WP:RPM? If there is consensus that the mayor really is the primary topic, he should have his article at Bill White, not Bill White redirecting to him. – sgeureka ^t•c 09:40, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Galveston montage

You do know that the Balinese Room no longer exists? It was destroyed by Hurricane Ike. Postoak (talk) 01:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:US City Montages

For every category you create, you should specify parent categories to which it belongs. You do this by listing the parents near the bottom of the page, each enclosed in double brackets like so:

[[Category:Images of cities in the United States]]
[[Category:Parent2]]

Contact me if you have questions about this. Best regards,--Stepheng3 (talk) 04:14, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Charlottesvillemontage.jpg

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Speedy rqst for person. Non notable, forthcoming candidate in city election.

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Your !votes at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Polargeo

Just FYI – you are listed at the above-linked page twice – oppose #7 on 17 Dec and neutral #12 at 20 Dec. Perhaps you meant to strike the earlier comment? — æk ^Talk 05:40, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Largest" city

In this edit, do you mean by population or by area? Perhaps you could edit the succession boxes so as to clarify this? --Cybercobra (talk) 03:33, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Skyscraper Template

Hi there, Just thought I'd let you know that I am hoping to initiate some discussion on improvements on a new skyscraper template over at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Houston. Any input would be greatly appreciated. --Hourick (talk) 17:22, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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