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I have always found Seattle's skyline to be one of the best on the west coast. Included in region?
69.70.145.236: What is special about the montreal skyline? I am curious as to why user 69.70.145.236 keeps adding montreal pictures. I used Chicago because it is the city that gave birth to the skyscraper and contains 3 of the top 20 tallest buildings in the world (only Hong Kong can equal that). Hong Kong has one of the fastest growing skylines. I used Sao Paulo to demonstrate the city's density, Cairo to show the contrast of old and new, and Sydney and Frankfurt because they are their respective continents most noteworthy skylines. I don't feel montreal has any of these assets.
The pictures are too Western-oriented, neglecting the growing Asian skylines. I am changing it to one from each continent, to best compare trends and growth
You forgot the most beautiful skyline in the world: Hong Kong! Please post a picture.
I changed the list to a table of images, what do people think? Should the images be split into another article? Here are some other cities we could add: [- PHOTOS REMOVED -].
I believe Belo Horizonte can be better represented by these pics:
http://www.chicorulez.com.br/bhrulez/vistadarm.jpg http://www.chicorulez.com.br/bhrulez/bhrulez1.jpg
Doidimais Brasil July 9, 2005 00:35 (UTC)
Insanedrivers added a photo
'Best Skylines'? I believe this should be renamed to 'Most Impressive Skylines', in keeping with what the source is actually attempting to rank. Whoever gave the title 'Best Skylines' probably did so to suit their city. I also think that the amount of photos is excessive. Perhaps there should only be photos of the top five skylines. You can go to the individual page of a city to see a picture of its skyline. Likewise the list should be reduced from top twenty to, at most, top ten. Very few Wiki articles have lists that are so long unless it is making a useful contribution (eg. team lists, lists ranking only twenty of something, etc.). Top twenty seems arbitrary and has probably been chose to, again, suit somebody's favourite city.
This article was made up entirely of original research, and what little sourcing there was did not nearly meet wikipedia's requirements for reliability and verifiability. Just because some website publishes lists of the "best" skylines by a variety of arbitrary reasons does not mean this information needs to make it into wikipedia. Furthermore, the list of skylines by region was indiscriminate. This article essentially needs a complete rewrite starting from a dictionary definition, which I have stubbed it to.- Dmz5 *Edits* *Talk* 05:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Image:Bangkok_at_Night.jpg, Image:Ortigas_full_moon.jpg and Image:New-York-Jan2005.jpg aren't depicting skylines. These three are pictures taken from an elevated point of view, depicting buildings more from above than as a silhouette or "the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates". In Image:New-York-Jan2005.jpg, not even a single building is projecting into the sky above the city! Therefore, nice as the pictures are, they don't fit into this article's scope and I will remove them from the gallery. Gestumblindi 23:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think it's appropriate for a single user to decide to delete a gallery, and to cite a failed AFD in defense of it. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 01:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, the fact was that the pictures exemplified an article that couldn't be exemplified otherwise. IFCM ( talk) 00:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Its about skylines, and there is not mentioned anywhere about the ranking of Skylines ..... There should be the list of top 15 skylines from a reliable source(Emporis).
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 10:58, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
There is a standard of measuring the skylines of cities you can find it in Emporis, and if anywhere it is neccessary to mention the list so it should be menitoned. When this article was created, it has a list but i dont why it has been omitted ? Well i am currently working on it. I know that there are alot of confusing sites which have there oen criteria of ranking skylines, e.g: Emporis ranks Dubai 11th, while i have seen on other source, which ranks Dubai 3rd, but i think it is not reliable source, so we can relie on Emporis. wht do you think ?
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 10:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
But i suggest to add a new section in this article, 'Worlds best skyline'.............. so here we can add the criteria about ranking..this should be done. i am not in favour of creating new article by the name of List of skylines, it will definately fails, because its is just a unnotable article...............
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 11:06, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
yes we can mention some of the worlds best skylines, thats what i am saying.
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 09:10, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I think the Hong Kong pic works perfectly for the article. I would like to keep it for the following reasons:
-- Louiedog ( talk) 17:47, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia EN is a american website, and having hong kong's skyline instead of New York is kinda anti american. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatlefan97 ( talk • contribs) 17:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
ya but that skyline is crappy and dumb, and NY's is more Pretty and a better example for skylines. Beatlefan97 ( talk) 20:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC)beatlesfan97
The NY Skyline shows more mordern life, it has a better look , and it if wikipedia has an encylopedia it would be better for the book.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatlefan97 ( talk • contribs) 02:57, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
I have taken a photo of the Denver skyline at blue hour, which I believe to be of more relevance and higher-quality than the Hong Kong photo. Since it is my own work I will not add it to the article myself, rather, I will leave it up to the wikipedians to decide what to do with it. Thanks, Bpapantonio ( talk) 06:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
What is the difference between a cityscape and a skyline? I want to know. -- Extra999 (talk) 18:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
What about Chicago's skyline? -- Extra999 (talk) 18:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
The skyline picture of dubai is hardly present in Wikipedia, so how we can compare, search on google and then compare it yourself, but in terms of clusters of skyscrapers hong kong is winner all the way but we cant say anything about future becuse dubai is growing very fast in terms of skyscapers and soon Dubai will beat hong kong, but surely it will take time to achieve such a feat. Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 16:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
No there are several staggering images of skyline of Hong kong, in Wikipedia, if the ability to change the picture depends on its availibility to wikipedia then no doubt it goes all the way to Hong kong, there are alot of reasons for that, Hong kong's skyline is eye catching with hills on the backdrop and sea water with the lightining of skyscrapers, which can not be observed else where in the world, and also Hong kong's skyline is considered the worlds best skyline.So we even can not think to consider the skyline image other than Hong Kong
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 16:44, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
What about these two skylines? -- Extra999 ( talk) 17:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
But the Honk Kong one should be replaced (a image of Honk Kong only, if you all want)? That picture is not very eye catching. -- Extra999 ( talk) 18:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Yes we should repalce the existing image with an eye catching skyline pic of hong kong as you said !
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 11:57, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
This image should replace the existing image, it clearly shows the true image of hong kong's skyline in a nutt shell, its an eye catching image and as well as Featured picture !
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 16:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Yes this picture is also very good but I have thought to put this one on. It will look good as it an excellent panorama. Nice?? -- Extra999 ( talk) 07:42, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
I am considering that this article should have some content regarding the "Worlds Best Skylines" by the heading of "Worlds best skylines" and the content should be as follows:
Wht do you think and give more suggestions that what more we can add in this respect !
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 16:43, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Can you find any Dubai Skyline. As posted earlier we don't have much quality pictures of dubai. And the third city? -- Extra999 ( talk) 07:48, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Two pictures should be there of two best cities. If not, please replace with the above one - the panorama. -- Extra999 ( talk) 16:18, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
There should be three pics, as 1:Hong Kong, 2:New York, 3:Dubai. As all these cities skylines are prominent, but the skyline pictures in wikicommons is limited in case of Dubai. While there are bundle of skyline pictures of hong kong and new york.And there are no updated images of skyline of dubai !!!
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 17:05, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
I have made a skyline gallery. Please visit it. It has panorama for New York and Honk Kong (above). -- Extra999 ( talk) 22:54, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Hong kong one is good but new york one lacks Empire state building which is currently the tallest building in new york, so we should upload the image which have Empire state building !
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 14:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
So, I am going to replace the Hong Kong one. Any douts?? Please post now. -- Extra999 ( talk) 21:18, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Replacing with which new image ??? hong kong one ? i will suggest you to put hong kong's image.
Nabil rais2008 ( talk) 15:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
And how is this one?? Please see this also. -- Extra999 ( Contact me + contribs) 04:09, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Someone please, add a note on the article about dubai's skyline. My computer is not letting it add. -- Extra999 ( Contact me + contribs) 12:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Can we please keep a picture of New York's skyline on this page? PLEASE!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.39.110.23 ( talk • contribs)
Why should the article be limited to the skylines created by a city structure? Are there not others that might not have their place in the article?
SovalValtos ( talk) 01:48, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
It's one of the lowest-quality Wikipedia articles I can remember reading. A few specific complaints:
Unfortunately I'm not sure which WP:CLEANUPTAG(s) to put on this article, so if you can find one or two that suit it, please go ahead. – PointyOintment ( talk · contribs) 23:31, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
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This article is a big mess!! 129.127.32.138 ( talk) 02:15, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Some current disagreement about what lead image this article should have, with File:Taipei_Skyline_2021.jpg being replaced with File:City_of_London_skyline_from_London_City_Hall_-_Oct_2008_-_Aligned.jpg and now File:SingaporeCBD2.jpg in the past 24 hours. An IP attempted to lock down the latter by adding a "Do not change without prior, established consensus and discussions on talk" comment, but I can't see that this particular image of Singapore has been used or discussed in the past. It doesn't seem the best possible image, to me, as half of the photo is the dark surface some kind of lake, at night.
Commons has a lot of great photos at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures_of_skylines, with File:Skyline Frankfurt am Main 2015.jpg and File:Pudong_Shanghai_November_2017_panorama.jpg standing out for me. What would be a good pick? -- Lord Belbury ( talk) 17:47, 22 November 2021 (UTC)