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Section sizes

Section size for World Trade Center (1973–2001) (35 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	14,573	14,573
Before the World Trade Center	337	9,653
Site	2,536	2,536
Establishment of the World Trade Center	6,780	6,780
Development	134	23,079
Design	2,818	15,503
Design features	12,685	12,685
Construction	7,442	7,442
Complex	2,814	38,546
North and South Towers	6,442	11,273
Floor plan	4,831	4,831
Austin J. Tobin Plaza	6,667	6,667
Top of the World observation deck	6,919	6,919
Windows on the World Restaurant	6,717	6,717
Other buildings	4,156	4,156
Major events	18	19,095
February 13, 1975 fire	2,625	2,625
February 26, 1993 bombing	8,235	8,235
January 14, 1998 robbery	714	714
Other events	3,118	3,118
Proposed lease	4,385	4,385
Destruction	15,685	15,685
New World Trade Center	8,126	8,126
Impact and legacy	80	23,732
Reception	6,830	6,830
On the surrounding community	5,034	5,034
As popular culture icon	6,238	11,788
After the September 11 attacks	5,550	5,550
Logo	1,071	1,071
See also	175	175
References	15	4,353
Notes	26	26
Citations	29	29
Sources	4,283	4,283
External links	3,373	3,373
Total	161,461	161,461

The WTC did not 'open' in 1973!

The WTC began accepting tenants into the first tower upon its completion in 1970. The WTC was open. The second tower was completed in 1972 - and becoming tenanted. The official ribbon cutting opening ceremony was in 1973. This is not made clear at the beginning of the article.

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How many Lifts/elevators in the twin towers

The twin towers 184.63.212.33 (talk) 22:56, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change Its rooftop observation deck was 1,362 ft (415 m) high to Its rooftop observation deck was 1,377 ft (420 m) high

^[1] TomTheHistoryGuy (talk) 23:59, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done:Request introduces reality-bending errors. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 06:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/digital-exhibitions/world-trade-center-history/world-trade-center-facts-and-figures#:~:text=The%20South%20Tower%20Observation%20Deck,it%20opened%20in%20December%201975.

History merge

So this page was obviously already in existence in 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040203051832/http://en2.wiki.x.io/wiki/World_Trade_Center

Where is the history of that page until 2015? I haven't been able to locate it. Can we do a history merge? PhotographyEdits (talk) 13:45, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PhotographyEdits, the history of this page is at Talk:World Trade Center/old, which is linked at the top of this talk page.

If I recall correctly, the history cannot be merged for these reasons:

Both this page and World Trade Center (2001–present) can reasonably be construed as "successors" to the original page. The original article talked about both the old complex and the current complex. This was discussed at length at Talk:World Trade Center/Archive 4#History merge, where there was discussion about which page the original article's history should be merged with.
The original page had 6,300 revisions, so it was not possible to histmerge the pages at the time of the above discussion (in 2015).
The history of Talk:World Trade Center/old is linked at the top of both this talk page and Talk:World Trade Center (2001–present). As such, I don't think any attribution of previous revisions is being lost here.

– Epicgenius (talk) 14:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused. Am I correctly understanding that the history of the article page is now inaccessible, but the talk page history is preserved in /old? The 2001-current building article history also goes back to 2015.

Maybe it wasn't clear, but I was looking for the *article* history before 2015 about the original WTC building, not the talk page. PhotographyEdits (talk) 15:24, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PhotographyEdits, it's my fault for being unclear; I should've said the article history is at Talk:World Trade Center/old. Sorry if I was unclear. (The talk page history is at Talk:World Trade Center.) – Epicgenius (talk) 15:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Right. Thanks for clearing that up! PhotographyEdits (talk) 18:09, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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