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You added Seattle Landmark status to this building, located in Portland, Oregon. Is that true? --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:20, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, that was a mistake. I'll fix it. Thanks for catching that. Cacw (talk) 23:25, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! If there are in fact two distinct Troy Laundry Buildings, we should probably move the current page to Troy Laundry Building (Portland, Oregon) and create Troy Laundry Building (Seattle). --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:32, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, should the Seattle one be Troy Laundry Building (Seattle) or Troy Laundry Building (Seattle, Washington)? Cacw (talk) 23:39, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I believe just Seattle. This is because the actual Wikipedia article for Seattle is just "Seattle", not "Seattle, Washington". My understanding is that disambiguation should only be carried out as far as necessary. I hope this makes sense. --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:41, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense, I'll create it with Seattle only then. Cacw (talk) 23:53, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great! And if, in the future, the community comes to the consensus that "Washington" needs to be in the title, the page will simply be moved and your work will remain in tact. --Another Believer _(Talk) 00:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Did you know that {{infobox building}} has its own "embedded" parameter to put {{designation list}} in, just like {{infobox park}}?[1] Or are you thinking that we should change the layout of infobox building so the embedded is moved from the bottom to the top? Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:38, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No I wasn't aware. I often have trouble trying to embed {{designation list}} into infoboxes. I often forget which ones have the embed parameter. I just put it there to try and get it to work. I try to use the embed feature whenever I can. Thanks for correcting the Space Needle page for me. Cacw (talk) 07:58, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for starting the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places page and finding this. I'd thought it a lost cause find the Philly list. I'm wondering the best format for the article/list. In general I'd love to have photos, addresses, and coordinates, but the list is simply too long to do that for everything.

I do a lot of photography of historic buildings and such on Wikipedia, e.g. roughly the last third of the photos at National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia and the majority at List of public art in Philadelphia. Tell me if you have any particular interest in a particular site or district. I'm not adverse to just doing inventories.

Do you know User:BoringHistoryGuy ?

Any help appreciated, and thanks again.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 15:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for noticing. I'm working on putting the page into table form with images. You're right the list is about 10,000 properties long, but I think that's ok. We don't need to replicate the entire list, I am just adding those properties that are individually listed (and not those only listed as part of a district -- pages describing the districts can be added later) and have a Wikipedia article.

I'm new here so I don't know BoringHistoryGuy. Cacw (talk) 20:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'd limit tables to about 300 entries - otherwise they get clumsy to work with and take a long time to upload. Just introduce yourself to Boring if you want to do Philly history. Not that he owns it, but he always gives good advice and has good ideas. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 05:29, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]