Talk:Cleveland Browns Stadium

message: In regards to the name of the Architect, in 2009, the HOK Sport group bought itself out in its entiretyhttp://www.stadia-magazine.com/news.php?NewsID=11613 – taking its portfolio of work and staff with it, and rebranding as Populous. As part of the buyout agreement from HOK, Populous had full claim to the portfolio of work done while under the HOK Moniker. HOK is not/was not allowed to claim any of those projects as their own.
 
In 2014, five years after the buyout was complete, HOK chose to re-enter the sports architecture space, acquiring another architecture firm, 360http://www.hok.com/about/news/2015/01/13/hok-completes-acquisition-of-360-architecture/. In turn, with the reemergence of a new company called HOK Sport, providing clarity in what company can actually claim this as their own work would be beneficial to the article and its readers. Hence rallying for the change from HOK Sport to Populous (then HOK Sport). The HOK Sport of today is not the same HOK Sport that completed this project and this change will minimize confusion for readers. If you click through to the Populous Wikipedia page, readers will be able to see the detailed firm history of Populous – including information on the buyout.
 
I'm aware that there are guidelines about editing pages if there is a potential conflict of interest, so I would like to disclose here that these contributions are made on behalf of Populous and in employment with them, and I intend to follow all of Wikipedia's guidelines, including those on WP:COI, WP:RS, WP:V and WP:NPOV, very closely. My aim is to work with and seek advice from impartial editors to make positive contributions to Populous' article and projects, hopefully leading to improved articles. Brianfolkers (talk) 16:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Populous / HOK Sport 

message: I removed the mention of the "Factory of Sadness" nickname from the lead mostly because it didn't have any sources with it. Even if it did, though, it doesn't appear, at this point, to be a common enough nickname to be included in the lead; certainly not in bold. I haven't found any solid, consistent sources for a nickname (similar issue with "The Jake" for Progressive Field). Even colloquially, "the stadium" seems to be most common nickname in my experience, which was also true for Cleveland Stadium. In a Google search for "Factory of Sadness", the Mike Polk video comes up and most of the related links are either directly related to that or are commercial links for a few items featuring the phrase. I'm obviously well-aware of the term and have used it myself, but it isn't producing sources consistent with a well-established nickname. That said, I think it could be worked into the article ("Factory of Sadness" not Factory of Sadness), in the section on naming. I just don't think it warrants a bolded term in the lead at this point (subject to change based on sources). --JonRidinger (talk) 00:00, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The name should probably be retired from the article, or maybe buried in it somewhere, since even Polk has said (in so many words) that it no longer applies, per a 2019 update. It was a joke all along, anyway. Mapsax (talk) 01:59, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: [sefl reply] Err, I didn't see the text that's not so buried referencing Polk from 2021, so, since there's been no discussion, I'm deleting it from the infobox. Mapsax (talk) 00:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factory of Sadness 

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message: As with other stadium articles, the tables showing every soccer game played at the stadium are not appropriate for this article. For starters, none of the soccer games played at this stadium were of any major significance, but more importantly, why would we have a table of each soccer game and not every Browns game? How about every college game or high school game? The soccer game table would be appropriate for an article on a specific soccer tournament or season, but not the stadium article. This article is about the stadium, not details of every sporting event to ever be played there. --JonRidinger (talk) 16:47, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soccer games 

message: Please add the page to your watch list, as anonymous users are repeatedly vandalizing the owner section of the page. Bocomoj (talk) 01:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated Vandalism 

message: I searched the article today for dome, for roof, for open (thinking open air). What? Nothing?
Suggestion: as a standard, have all major U.S. football and baseball venues show that prominently on the upper right, next to seating capacity.
E.g.
Design: Domed with retractable roof
Type: Open air (most seating stands covered by partial roof)
Design: Open air
Type: Open air with cooling fans and cooling mists for open seating
Design: Closed dome2600:6C56:6600:1ECF:1078:10AD:7899:589D (talk) 13:31, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This sounds like something to be suggested at Template talk:Infobox venue rather than at a single stadium article. This article is similar to every other stadium article I have edited and the infobox has no parameter for the characteristic "open air" or "retractable roof"; that's a characteristic mentioned in the lead along with things like being "multipurpose". Having edited hundreds of stadium articles, the only time the roof is mentioned is when it covers the entire stadium, whether it's permanent or retractable, such as at AT&T Stadium or RCA Dome. If no mention is made, it's assumed to be open-air since most stadiums in the world are still open-air and pictures usually show right away that a stadium is open air (which is true for this article too). --JonRidinger (talk) 02:08, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Domed? Open air? Shouldn't that information be on the top level highlight sidebar?