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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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review.

Participants

If you are interested in working on this FTD, please just sign your name below using three tildes ~~~ :

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.

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 feet (210 m) 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.

Nation / City	Building list	List status	# completed buildings in US list	# U/C buildings in US list
B-Class	United States	List of tallest buildings in the United States	—	—
	Atlanta	List of tallest buildings in Atlanta	5	0
	Boston	List of tallest buildings in Boston	2	0
	Charlotte	List of tallest buildings in Charlotte	1	1
	Chicago	List of tallest buildings in Chicago	15	7
	Cleveland	List of tallest buildings in Cleveland	2	0
	Dallas	List of tallest buildings in Dallas	5	0
	Denver	List of tallest buildings in Denver	2	0
	Detroit	List of tallest buildings in Detroit	1	0
	Houston	List of tallest buildings in Houston	10	0
	Indianapolis	List of tallest buildings in Indianapolis	1	0
	Jersey City	List of tallest buildings in Jersey City	1	0
	Las Vegas	List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas	2	2
	Los Angeles	List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles	8	0
	Miami	List of tallest buildings in Miami	3	4
	Minneapolis	List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis	3	0
B-class	Mobile	List of tallest buildings in Mobile	1	0
	New York City	List of tallest buildings in New York City	36	8
	Philadelphia	List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia	5	0
	Pittsburgh	List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh	2	0
	San Francisco	List of tallest buildings in San Francisco	2	0
	Seattle	List of tallest buildings in Seattle	3	0

Cities that have proposed 700 ft+ skyscrapers

City	Building list	List status	# approved buildings in US list	# proposed buildings in US list
Austin	List of tallest buildings in Austin	Start-class	0	1
New Orleans	List of tallest buildings in New Orleans		1	0
Nashville	List of tallest buildings in Nashville	Start-class	1	0
Oakland	List of tallest buildings in Oakland	B-Class	0	1
Oklahoma City	List of tallest buildings in Oklahoma City		1	0
Sacramento	List of tallest buildings in Sacramento	Start-class	0	1

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

Midwestern United States

Southern United States

Western United States

Featured List candidates

List of tallest buildings in Milwaukee (FLC)

Featured Topic criteria

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.
The topic should have a lead article (List of tallest buildings in the United States), which introduces and summarises the topic.
There must be at least three separate articles.
All articles in the series should be linked together, preferably using a template.
There should not be any obvious gap (missing or stub article) in the topic.
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.