2013/7/23 Bas vb <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Indeed France and Belgium both have many of these monuments, but I believe > that in France a lot of these wont be monument historique. Due to the fact > that most of their monuments are really really old and special. (there are > ca 60.000 monuments in France but there are also that number in both > Flanders and the Netherlands, this means that to become a monument is easier > in the latter two and therefore less special buildings are monuments). The > same issue might hold for Wallonie. For other countries I don't know how the > situation is, so this point is a little bit focused on only some of the > countries. > > So there might be a lot of these monuments (in every small city) but a lot > of them wont be eligible for the local contest, how to deal with that? > > Mvg, > > Bas
In France, there is around 45 000 monuments historiques (in short MH) ; 16,7 % are from XIXth to XXIst century (as of 2009). I expect roughly 100 to 1000 MH to be related to the WWI. It depends on the strengh of the relation: is a bulding bombed during WWI really related to WWI ? (there is a lot of buildings in this case). If we take only the memorials in the narrow senss, there is rougly 50 MH. I'm more concern about the legality : are this buildings and memorials in the public domain ? could they be put on Commons ? In most case, it's unclear… I know a lot of files of memorials have been deleted, cf. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Verdun_-_Cimeti%C3%A8re_de_Douaumont_(1).jpg a winner for WLM-fr in 2011 that have been RfDed and kept (for de minimis). Since there built after 1918 there is sadly good chances that the author died after 1942… Cdlt, ~nicolas _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
