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The result was delete‎. In addition to the majority favoring deletion, the repeated appeals to WP:LISTPURP are a weak argument for keeping. Presumably this is an "informational" list, but there does not appear to be any attempt to establish the notability of the information. Navigational lists (including WP:Outlines and WP:Indexes) are often treated more like navboxes or categories, where notability is not a key criterion. But since that doesn't apply here, the lack of arguments supporting notability is close to fatal, and combined with being a minority position in the discussion it definitely is fatal. RL0919 (talk) 02:45, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of tallest buildings in Columbia, Missouri[edit]

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A dubious close the first time around, the precedent from many discussion of these lists taken from the now shut-down Emporis is that lists from smaller cities with not terribly tall buildings have generally been deleted. When a parking garage is the fifth entry on the list, it is not a good sign. Almost all the buildings listed are 9 or 10 stories, and only one has more stories than that; the tallest is only 180 feet tall. As per the original nomination, nothing here is notable for its height, and there's no discussion of the height of the buildings in the city beyond the now-departed Emporis page, where there articles on even quite small cities. Columbia, while pretty big for Missouri, is still a small place, and its buildings are unremarkable for their height. Mangoe (talk) 02:34, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For reference, I found 90-some "List of tallest buildings in" deletion discussions. Looking through them I found only a few definite keeps, including one for Karachi which was based on sourcing, not notability. Second discussions that I looked at were all deletes. There were a few redirects to the parent city article, but the vast majority had deletion as an outcome. Mangoe (talk) 03:05, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In fact the list was copied from Emporis some three years later, so the list is not likely to grow unless someone is watching the Columbia real estate market closely. And even then, it's only likely to change if someone builds a taller building than what's already there. Mangoe (talk) 01:33, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just because it satisfies listpurp doesn't mean it is needed...
if I make a "list of middle schools in missouri". yes it does fit listpurp, but it's not needed due to its obscurity.
Columbia has a population of 128,879. [1] but 31,318 of those are Mizzou students [2]. So I subtracted those since they aren't permanent residents and got 97,651.
Despite being bigger, Springfield doesn't have a list.
with it being a college town, most of the tallest buildings are in the college and not the actual town LuxembourgBoy42 (talk) 20:43, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 00:01, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete: as a Missouri resident myself. The only way Columbia is notable is because it has Mizzou. In my opinion, the only major cities in missouri that deserve these "list of tallest buildings" pages is St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and arguably Cape Guireardo, St. Charles, Jefferson City, and Hannibal
Also the fact that the 5th tallest building is a
parking garage says a lot about how
meaningless this page is LuxembourgBoy42 (talk) 00:30, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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