Talk:World Heritage Site

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While this is an interesting page, the way certain items are linked seems odd. For example, Syria has "The Historic City of Damascus, which links nowhere, but there is an article on the city of Damascus, etc. Should these links be rconfigured to conform to Wikipedia links, or should they be left as is until an article on the specific World Heritage site appears? Danny

I suggest, as I have done for the sites of China and France, to link what is linkable to Wikipedia articles. In the case you are mentioning, the result would be : The Historic City of Damascus. If in the future, if someone feels like writing a specific article on The Historic City of Damascus, then this author will make the link change. In the meantime, linking what is linkable alows the readers to gather as much information as possible about the Site. - User:Olivier

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[edit] Selection process

It would be nice to add a little about the selection process to this article - I imagine there is a good deal of politics involved. And perhaps some explaination on why some countried are choc-a-block with Unesco sites (like France) while others are near devoid of them (eg Nigeria). I doubt it has much to do with different amounts of history in each country. Seabhcán 12:47, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That would be way too biased

[edit] Nominated or selected?

The opening paragraph defines a site as one which has been "nominated". Is that correct? I would have thought it should be "selected". --Tatty 03:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Emblem to Commons

Could somebody please add the World Heritage Emblem to the Commons? thx. --Neoneo13 15:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moving Emblem

I think the emblem should be moved from the right to the left. It would look much better. What do you think? Bremen 06:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I want information for the Ancient Metropolitan City Dholavira to be included on World Heritage Site.

I want information for the Ancient Metropolitan City Dholavira to be included on World Heritage Site. vkvora 18:26, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why is Jerusalem not part of Israel's list on the World Heritage Site

Hi! It is stated in the article that a property must first belong to a country before being nominated. But Jerusalem is an exception (see my explanation here. And hence, to prevent confusion (like what happened in the In Danger List when some editors placed it as part of Israel and some reverted the change), a section here can be included to such an exception to the formal procedure of nomination. Mind you, the explanation I made may require a little more editing to make it more neutral. --Joey80 08:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Heritage Site : Pending List

There is no information of Pending List or application is pending. If sombody get the information of Pending List, I reqest to add in the article.
vkvora 17:48, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, the link cited above contains all nominations. If you are pertaining to those which will be nominated in a set year (e.g. for 2007), I am not sure if the authority is making it public as has been done before. Searching for documents in the official website, I can't find any, which has also been the case for this year's included sites, before they were included. However, natural/mixed sites to be examined for 2007 are available in the IUCN website: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wheritage/sitelist.html --Joey80 07:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Nominations to be examined in 2007 available at the end of this document: http://whc.unesco.org/p_dynamic/document/document_download.cfm?id_document=6627 or at http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2006/whc06-30com-08Be.pdf --202.138.136.38 10:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox?

Not to go crazy about extraneous bells-and-whistles, but is there or has there been any sort of discussion for a World Heritage Site infobox? --Calton | Talk 08:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Photos

I just added Geghard to the list of photos on the page - I did notice in the page history someone write not to add any more photos, but it may have been a reference to photo quality. If not, I would say photos that have been on the page a long time should be rotated out, just because photos were available earlier shouldn't exclude other sites. Otherwise the photos can be moved to a proper (and more inclusive) photo gallery at the bottom of the page. --RaffiKojian 11:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

An unregisterd user removed the pic without discussion, I put it back. Again, I think my comments need to be addressed since there needs to be some logic to why these particular photos are displayed. --RaffiKojian 05:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I replaced the Curonian Spit (A World Heritage Site shared by Russia and Lithuania) photo with a picture of World Heritage Site #541 "Vilnius Old Town". I think it is proper that Lithuania is represented by the Vilnius Historic Centre (its capital) instead of a shared World Heritage Site. Plus, Russia already has a picture in this article. I would also recommend everyone either stop adding new pictures or start taking old ones off, because if it continues, the article would leave too much spaces in the end.

I also took off the Web link to Sicily, I don't think website about individual countries World Heritage Sites should be in the external links section. --67.2.149.38 20:21, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

You did very well! I think that new images, if they show up in the future, we can add into new image gallery at the bottom of the article too M.K. 20:37, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

To user Kaveh, I don't know what are your problems with the photos of European cathedrals posted on this article (namely the photos of Cathedral of Vilnius and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral), but why did you remove them? They are of different artistic representations of their individual country's heritages, and these two sites are not alike at all, so I fail to see how you can say these "cathedral" images are over-represented. Also, the qualities of these two cathedrals' images are quite good, and better than the Iranian sites you added in. --Thewallowmaker 00:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I replaced the Persepolis photo you added with a image of better quality (I personally liked the picture of Pasargadae better). You also need to put the photo in the correct order according to its id number as well as follow the proper description-style. --Thewallowmaker 01:16, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I feel there are too many cathedrals from the former Soviet Union. But, the current version is fine. Kaveh 02:51, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Did anyone noticed that recently the official website has some technical errors happening. The numbering system of the Criteria section seems to have disappeared as well as the numbering system in World Heritage List's Notes Section. I think its kind of distracting because we don't have the numbers to guide what we are looking at. --Godardesque 15:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, I guess its just a format change or fixing of it. These numbers are back.--Godardesque 22:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Heritage Documents... know anything.

I am wondering if anyone knows anything about World Heritage Documents as a sub-set of World Heritage sites, such as the Magna Carta, Bundesdbrief, Dead Sea Scolls and so on; and is there interest in this additional category.70.90.16.34 12:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)Jim

[edit] ID number list?

Is there a list of the sites ordered by their identification or reference number? I couldn't find it in the official site. It would be good to have some history background on the issue; which were the first sites to be included as World Heritage? Nazroon 18:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

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