Talk:Lumen Field

Richter scale

I removed the unsourced 3.0 on the Richter scale line. The first thing I heard a few hours later in in Pioneer Square was "dude, you know the news said it got to 2.4". So I have heard it in passing and it has been blogged about. If anyone finds a source or hears it on the news please add it! We can use cite episode if it is on local news I think.Cptnono (talk)

Correction to, potential replacement of main infobox photo

Regarding recent attempts to replace the main infobox photo: while I understand that the current photo may be a bit too outdated and low-resolution for some people's liking, the reality of the situation is that it is still the best "free" image in terms of showcasing the interior of the whole stadium. That said, I think the photo's description is inaccurate as to when it was taken; the main issue is that the tower has the "Seahawks Stadium" signage instead of the "Qwest Field" signage, which was already installed (as seen on September 11, 2004, via Getty Images) by the time this photo was supposedly taken (April 2005). On Flickr, I also found an exact copy posted by the same uploader with an earlier date (February 2005), but still later than the photo on Getty Images, so I think the description should be corrected with this in mind.

Still, considering the low resolution of the photo, I think a new, higher-resolution version of it is needed. The "free" photo I could find on Flickr that most closely matches the panorama-like view of it is this one by SounderBruce, but I feel that too much of the field below is cut off to be a suitable replacement. I would like to coordinate on some potential guidelines for a replacement photo in case anyone here has the opportunity to capture one if they visit the stadium in the near future. SmartAn01 (talk) 00:15, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

At minimum, a like-for-like replacement of the current photo would be ideal. Something shot from the upper deck's southern end that shows the layout of the tiers, preferably without the tarp covering seats. SounderBruce 23:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Source re: public art

For future article development, a source re: public art:

• https://stadium.org/public-benefits/public-art/

---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:01, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

New photo

Somebody with a Wikipedia account really should replace the image in the infobox, Lumen field has had nicer bigger screens on that side of the field the picture has for a few years now. ~2026-61218 (talk) 04:37, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Why shouldn’t we add table for 2026 world cup matches?

Every stadium has one which makes it easier to see which matches it hosted for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Date	Time (UTC−4)	Team #1	Res.	Team #2	Round	Attendance
June 15, 2026	12:00	Belgium	1–1	Egypt	Group G	66,775
June 19, 2026	12:00	United States	2–0	Australia	Group D	67,442
June 24, 2026	12:00	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3–1	Qatar	Group B	66,925
June 26, 2026	20:00	Egypt	1–1	Iran	Group G	66,925
July 1, 2026	13:00	Belgium	–	Senegal	Round of 32
July 6, 2026	17:00	United States/Bosnia and Herzegovina	–	Belgium/Senegal	Round of 16

~2026-36811-28 (talk) 02:58, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

A prose summary is more appropriate and in line with the expectations of a featured article. The table is uncited and tips the weight of the article too far towards the World Cup, which is ultimately only two months of the stadium's 25-year history. SounderBruce 06:42, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

@SounderBruce there's a table like that on every article for every single stadium that has ever been used for a World Cup for with each table having each game and the dates they were played on plus the score and who played because those are the most important games played at those venues by far and there is not a summary of who played where on the specific World Cup articles. Lumen will be known as a World Cup stadium by far more people and for far longer than as the ground of the Seattle Sounders or Seattle Seahawks. By deleting that table, you are currently making this stadium article non-compliant with what has been the standard way of noting and describing what happened at that stadium in the World Cup for every other article on every other stadium ever used in a World Cup here on Wikipedia. ~2026-38223-39 (talk) 18:05, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes, that's known as an WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument. There is no Wikipedia requirement that a stadium used for the World Cup has to have that table and actual policies and guidelines for Wikipedia and for stadium/arena articles discourage overuse of tables for WP:UNDUE, WP:SCOPE, and WP:RECENT. Further, as Bruce pointed out, this is a Featured Article, meaning it's gone through an extensive review process and represents what a developed article should actually look like. Many stadium articles have inappropriate tables for every international soccer game, concert, or other event even though there us no such documentation for the primary tenants (can you imagine what this would look like if we listed every Seahawks and Sounders game played here?). The World Cup and other major events/concerts should be summarized in prose since this article is not about the World Cup. If readers want specific match details, they can go to the article on the 2026 World Cup for those. In the end these articles are about the facilities, not details of every event to be held in the facility. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:02, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

@JonRidinger None of those articles sum up what games were played at what stadiums except the stadium articles you have to go looking for that information, it's not just presented to you somewhere else. Again, internationals, especially World Cup matches, are the most significant matches played at those venues. In other words, I'm not asking you to put every Seahawks or Sounders game on there because those are meaningless in comparison to continental and world championship soccer matches. People want to know where certain World Cup games were played and if a stadium hosted certain matches and they want to know that by team and by individual world cup and by stadium and you have currently made it so that people wanting to know that for Lumen Stadium have to go digging through the FIFA World Cup 2026 article to find when Lumen shows up and hopefully don't miss any entries, they don't have to do that for where or when the U.S. national team played at a World Cup, or for any other stadium in the history of the World Cup, or for who was at any World Cup but because you insist this is the standard when everyone else editing stadium articles thinks the World Cup is so important that it warrants special mention including who played there and a short score, game time, stage of the tournament description for every match. Describing it in prose wastes space in comparison, and currently, it barely does that. It mentions one game, and it's not even a knockout game involving one of the seeded teams like it actually has hosted at this point. ~2026-38223-39 (talk) 02:45, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Again this article is about the facility, not the details of every 2026 World Cup match held at this facility. Of course aspects of the games played here should be mentioned, but many of the details present in the table are not appropriate for an article on the facility because of WP:UNDUE. We've already seen this with concert tables and with excessive tables for *every* international or other soccer match held in a non-soccer facility. 2026 FIFA World Cup#Group stage and 2026 FIFA World Cup#Knockout stage already have match details for every match held here, just like individual season articles for teams have the details of each game they play. Having mention of the games played here in prose and links to the appropriate articles is more than sufficient without the need for the table which includes date, start time, opponents, flags, score, attendance, and round. Prose can summarize the most important aspects and if readers want those more specific details they can go to the appropriate sections of the World Cup article. The same is true for other major events the stadium hosts. The widespread popularity of the World Cup does not mean we ignore the basic policies and guidelines for articles.

Because this is a Featured Article, that means it's an example of how other similar articles should look like. Don't assume because your interest in the World Cup may have brought you to this article that everyone else is also only interested in it because of the World Cup. Once the cup is done, article traffic and edit interest will likely return to normal levels and the World Cup events will be a small part of the facility's history. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:18, 5 July 2026 (UTC)