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Proposed Move

I have listed this page at WP:RM as an uncontroversial move, with the goal of moving the page to List of tallest buildings in Seattle.

Per this FL discussion related to the List of tallest buildings in Dallas page, it was decided that United States building lists that contain only one freestanding tower (with all other entries habitable buildings) should not be dubbed with "and structures" in the title. The change would be consistent with other U.S. tallest buildings lists, and reduce confusion, as "structures" more or less implies multiple structures, not just one observation tower. As long as a note is added to the observation tower entry, the clarification in the title is not needed. Rai-me 01:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The two towers in the Proposed at 1901 Minor have been Approved, I would move them but it is locked. Here is a source.
http://news.theregistryps.com/miami-based-crescent-heights-approved-move-forward-737-unit-residential-project-seattles-denny-triangle — Preceding unsigned comment added by IanScott1337 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Done Please put comments at the bottom of the talk page next time and use {{Edit semi-protected}}. Sounder Bruce 17:32, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

I just wanted to mention: there are pictures of most of these on the Commons. Someone might want to add a column to the tables with a 100 px picture of each (perhaps rather than having quite so many larger images in the article). - Jmabel | Talk 05:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the list to this format. It's consistent with list of tallest buildings in New York, Chicago, Miami, etc. Doing this also fixed the whitespace below the table and removed the need to keep the captions up-to-date (One Union Square was called 17th tallest in the caption even though it's 18th in the list, presumably due to the later addition of 1918 Eighth Avenue). —Mrwojo (talk) 22:52, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of tallest buildings

The succession box at the bottom of the Alaska Building article lists the Hoge Building as its successor for the tallest building in Seattle, while Timeline of tallest buildings lists King Street Station (Seattle) as having this distinction. This apparent conflict should be resolved or explained. — Myasuda (talk) 03:57, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Old Tall Buildings

This list excludes interesting buildings that were very tall for their time, such as the 1927 Seattle Tower (347 ft), while including comparatively uninteresting buildings of our own time, as 400ft is not especially tall by today's standards.

Rather than a blanket cap of 400ft, it would be more interesting to have a moving cap based on building completion date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greglovern (talk • contribs) 17:39, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dependent and dated information

The information in this list seems highly dependent on other information. For example, I've tried to fix issues where values in feet didn't match the given values in meters by using {{convert}}. There were numerous statements that were out of date (simple things like "the list below contains 22 buildings" when it has 24 now). Some of the proposed buildings haven't been talked about for years, so who knows when those should be considered "not proposed". The statement that the "skyline is ranked [1st, 3rd, 11th]" is based on looking at the Emporis lists for the major cities of the US – so if any of those cities change, the statement can become out-of-date. Some simplification might be in order. —Mrwojo (talk) 23:26, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Space Needle not a Building?

Can someone provide some context for the Space Needle not being a building? That seems at least contentious enough to require a cite. The nearest footnote to the claim ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1294 ) refers to it as a building. Wikipedia's 'Building' page defines a building as "Any human-made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy". The 'any use' certainly seems to apply, since there's a restaurant that's being both supported and sheltered. The implication seems to be that it's not continually occupied, but of course that applies to office buildings as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simianvector (talk • contribs) 00:53, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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37 or 39 buildings

I'm not 100% certain because I haven't compared side by side all the entries for all 37 (or 39) buildings, but from what I can tell, The Skyscraper Center has 37 buildings over 400 ft, and Emporis has 39. From what I can tell the Hayatt Regency, 520 ft, 45 floors, completed 2018) is missing. So I'm not sure who we're matching our sources. Emporis has precedence, and the Center only verifies some of them, without contradicting the other? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:34, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I generally prefer The Skyscraper Center, since it's maintained by the CTBUH (an organization that, among other things, decides what qualifies as a "skyscraper"). Emporis is fine, but it's a looser database and often gets details wrong because it's partially fed by user data. Skyscraper Center is slower to update as a result, but has more consistent data. The Hyatt Regency has not been completed (and thus not eligible for the Skyscraper Center listing), given that the sidewalk hasn't re-opened and the roof isn't fully furnished. It's only topped out at this point. Sounder Bruce

#	The Skyscraper Center	#	Emporis	#	List of tallest buildings in Seattle #Tallest completed buildings
1	1000 Second Avenue	1	1000 Second Avenue	1	1000 Second Avenue
2	1201 Third Avenue Tower	2	1201 Third Avenue Tower	2	1201 Third Avenue
3	1918 8th Avenue	3	1918 8th Avenue	3	1918 8th Avenue
4	2nd & Pike Tower	4	West Edge Tower	4	West Edge Tower
5	2nd and Pine	5	Helios	5	Helios
6	901 Fifth Avenue	6	901 Fifth Avenue	6	901 Fifth Avenue
7	Amazon Tower I	7	Doppler	7	Doppler
8	Amazon Tower II	8	Day One	8	Day 1
9	AMLI Arc Tower	9	AMLI Arc Tower	9	AMLI Arc
10	Aspira Apartments	10	Aspira	10	Aspira
11	Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza	11	Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza	11	800 Fifth Avenue
12	Cirrus	12	Cirrus	12	Cirrus
13	City Centre	13	City Centre	13	U.S. Bank Centre
14	Columbia Center	14	Columbia Center	14	Columbia Center
15	Eleven-Eleven Third Avenue	15	Eleven-Eleven Third Avenue	15	1111 Third Avenue
16	F5 Tower	16	F5 Tower	16	F5 Tower
17	Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue	17	Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue	17	Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue
18	Fourth and Madison Building	18	Fourth and Madison Building	18	Fourth and Madison Building
19	Henry M. Jackson Federal Building	19	Henry M. Jackson Federal Building	19	Henry M. Jackson Federal Building
20	Insignia North Tower	20	Insignia North Tower	20	Insignia North Tower
21	Insignia South Tower	21	Insignia South Tower	21	Insignia South Tower
22	Kiara	22	Kiara	22	Kiara
23	Kinects	23	Kinects	23	Kinects
24	Madison Centre	24	Madison Centre	24	Madison Centre
25	Olive 8	25	Olive 8	25	Olive 8
26	One Union Square	26	One Union Square	26	One Union Square
27	Premier on Pine	27	Premiere on Pine	27	Premiere on Pine
28	Qwest Plaza	28	Qwest Plaza	28	1600 Seventh Avenue
29	Rainier Tower	29	Rainier Tower	29	Rainier Tower
30	Russell Investments Center	30	Russell Investments Center	30	Russell Investments Center
31	Safeco Plaza	31	Safeco Plaza	31	Safeco Plaza
32	Seattle Municipal Tower	32	Seattle Municipal Tower	32	Seattle Municipal Tower
33	Smith Tower	33	Smith Tower	33	Smith Tower
34	Two Union Square	34	Two Union Square	34	Two Union Square
35	Wells Fargo Center	35	Wells Fargo Center	35	Wells Fargo Center
36	Westin Building	36	Westin Building	36	Westin Building
37	Westin Seattle North Tower	37	Westin Seattle North Tower	37	Westin Seattle North Tower
		38	Hyatt Regency Hotel
		39	McKenzie Apartments	38	McKenzie Apartments
		40	Stratus	39	Stratus
				40	Space Needle[C]

OK, I think I was able to match them all up and compare the three lists, Emporis, The Skyscraper Center, and our first list here. Quite a few have different aliases to unmask. I don't have a problem with the criteria for any of these three versions, but if the lead says 39 buildings, we should have a list of 39. Or if The Skyscraper Center is the best source, then the first table, Tallest completed buildings should say 37 and we should have a table of 37 items. In that case, Hyatt, McKenzie, Stratus and Space Needle can still be included in the page, just not on that first table. Any version is good; I only want to be consistent. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:32, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Tallest seattle. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 25#Tallest seattle until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC678 16:30, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lead citations

A featured list is expected to have inline citations sourced where they appear (per WP:FLCR 3b), and this most definitely applies when half of the lead is original content and half is a summary. Per WP:LEADCITE, "there is no exception to citation requirements specific to leads". It has long been the consensus for this article that the lead should be cited since the statistical information in the first paragraph is not found in the rest of the article.

As for the recent reverts, the vast majority of the new paragraphs remain uncited; the addition of two Skyscraper Center entries is not sufficient to cite all of the information found in these passages. The third paragraph discusses Seattle's downtown, South Lake Union, and University District skylines; none of this information can be supported with this citation. Sounder Bruce 20:10, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Column ordering

@LivinAWestLife: A reminder that major changes to an FL must be discussed and implemented with consensus. Doesn't matter if I "haven't contributed" in a while, but for the record, I've been keeping some entries here updated from the DJC and PSBJ sources I am able to access.

The column ordering in the original version was deliberate, as height is the main method of sorting the buildings in the list. Having it moved so far inward is not a benefit to the reader. Sounder Bruce 01:56, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited several featured lists for other cities without much (well, any) controversy, and these changes have been welcome for others. I'd like to find the WikiProject guideline that says major changes to featured lists must be discussed first. Just my opinion of course, but, none of those recent edits constitute a major change, and they are just to make it consistent with the other articles which have the coordinates right after the image.

WP:BOLD would suggest if you know there is something that would most likely improve an article, it should be done.

In any case, I believe the cityscape image is not problematic. The clickable image map would be useful for many readers. Maybe that could be put back if you see no problem with it. LivinAWestLife (talk) 02:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It'd be fine to re-add the cityscape image, so long as it conforms with the updated MOS:IMGSIZE guidelines (which heavily discourage fixed width defined by pixels). As for the policy on discussing changes, it's in the FL criteria as well as WP:FAOWN, which applies to all forms of featured content. There is no precedent for making an FL more consistent with non-FLs, especially in a time where these lists are in danger of delisting. Sounder Bruce 02:16, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]