Talk:Fort de Chartres

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I nominated it as a good article, but I was wondering if this would better be called Fort de Chartres State Historical Site or Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Also might fix the first sentence to be better in context. —Rob (talk) 03:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I think I prefer the current name. Because the fort is not a town, adding "Illinois" doesn't seem exactly right. As for "state historical site," that is the current identification, but the fort, of course, wasn't that for most of its history. The name as it is seems to be the most common identifier, so it seems appropriate. -- DavidH 14:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

The recent first sentence rewrite really skewed things. The article titled "Fort de Chartres" is not focused on a state park, it is about the French fort built there in 1720. There is a now state park at that site, but its name is not simply "Fort de Chartres" and it certainly isn't the most important thing for the first sentence of this article. This article is focused on the fort(s) and their history, with some mention of the modern-day historical site. It's the same with almost every historic structure -- its article should focus not on the fact that something is now a museum or a preserve, but about what made it significant enough to become a museum or state park -- what it was. The Pallace of Versailles is now surley a French museum, but that's not what it was built for, and the name, and the intro to an article about it, should reflect that. The same is true of Fort de Chartres. I'm reverting for these reasons. DavidH 03:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)