Talk:List of tallest buildings in Iowa

Rename proposal

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved, no opposition after 8 days, appears to be uncontroversial. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 13:35, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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List of tallest buildings in Des Moines → List of tallest buildings in Iowa — I propose renaming this article the List of tallest buildings in Iowa since not only are all of these buildings the tallest in Des Moines, they appear to be the tallest in Iowa. See the Iowa city listings at http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/?id=101338 for comparisons with other Iowa towns. Bill Whittaker (talk) 12:45, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. 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.

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Alliant

Alliant Tower in Cedar Rapids has 285 ft, should be added to the list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.22.220.63 (talk) 07:53, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Done. Bill Whittaker (talk) 13:30, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Split?

I vote strong No to the proposed split. Editors can always create pages "Tallest Buildings in Des Moines", etc. on their own without splitting this page. To be honest, there aren't that many tall buildings in Iowa, our tallest would only rank no. 63 in New York City, our second tallest would not even be listed.

Have not seen anyone actually post a reason for the proposed split, and unless one appears in the next few days, I will remove the proposal from the article. Thanks, Bill Whittaker (talk) 13:07, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

I concur with Bill, no reason to split a minimal number of buildings in to two articles. CTJF83 pride 21:12, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Bill, since you proposed the name merge, do you think it should be moved back to Des Moines buildings? If only one is Cedar Rapids...and this is the only state as a whole listed at Template:US tallest buildings lists. CTJF83 pride 21:20, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Hmm... My original thought was that Iowa has so few tall buildings that it is better to lump them all as one state, rather than having innumerable piddly pages: "Tallest Buildings in Waterloo", "Tallest Buildings in Floyd", etc. Also, I am interested in tall Iowa buildings before the current capitol, these would all be outside Des Moines, hence my interest in the Davenport college. Bill Whittaker (talk) 13:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok, That makes sense, since there are so few tall buildings in the whole state, we can keep them as one page. CTJF83 pride 17:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

There should be individual lists for Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport (or Quad Cities) Zonafan39 (talk) 02:16, 15 July 2013 (UTC)