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World's littlest skyscraper has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
October 21, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
June 26, 2025	Good article reassessment	Kept

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 14, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the world's littlest skyscraper, located in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)?

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Possibly an urban legend

This article seems to be 80% urban legend. The problem is the article's highly referenced, but all those references might be wrong. See the claim here... quazen.com/arts/architecture/the-worlds-smallest-man-made-structures/ --203.122.192.201 (talk) 03:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. I admit that some of the claims about the McMahon Building are difficult to believe, and solid evidence is scarce or lacking in some cases. For example, it would certainly be nice to see an image file of the original blueprints, or a record of the legal proceedings that reportedly took place in 1919. However, every assertion made in the article meets the Wikipedia criteria for verifiability, and is based on reliable published sources. We must bear in mind that:

"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true."

I have spent a lot of time searching for any documents or other evidence that will either support or refute these bizarre assertions, and will continue to do so, but thus far I have come up empty-handed. Assertions with respect to the history of this building are welcome and encouraged from any editor, but they must come from reliable sources. Unfortunately, I don't believe "quazen.com" meets the definition of a reliable source. DiverDave (talk) 02:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Images

The images don't seem to be relevant. Could they be removed? Metao (talk) 03:36, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit on February 14 2014

Added the equivalent of feet and inches measurements to meters and centimeters.

TheInformativePanda (talk) 04:09, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I changed it to {{convert}} since the previous setup was inaccurate. Epicgenius (talk) 20:06, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Address not complete

It just says Wichita Falls, Texas. It Doesn't specify which country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:96A2:B4FB:6C36:153:9A97:7569 (talk) 14:55, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Useful source on the Depot Square Historic District

- https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/survey/highway/Depot%20Sq%20Historic%20District%20Wichita%20Falls.pdf - The area bounded includes the Newby-McMahon Building which is mentioned in the document. 78.105.218.134 (talk) 14:34, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

no primary sources on ripley’s believe it or not

there are 3 secondary sources listed for the ripley's believe it or not information, but no primary sources at all in here or in those sources theres still no proof that this is an urban legend Clayel (talk) 03:53, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article review

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and saw lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:03, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

World's littlest skyscraper

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Result: Kept. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:27, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Z1720 (talk) 02:24, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720: It looks like all of those statements have citations in the original GA copy, which you might have seen had you done any sort of deeper assessment of the article prior to nominating it for GAR. A search of the article history then reveals that an editor in 2022 thought that dead links in refs weren't acceptable and therefore removed them all (contravening WP:MDLI). I've reverted the article to 19:04, 24 November 2022, which restores all of the lost refs and results in a fully cited article. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 04:02, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, although I encourage interested editors to take a look at the reversion and see if anything should be put back. Some of the changes eliminated prose and citations, and replaced some inline citations to sources of lesser quality. Z1720 (talk) 12:50, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.