Hmm, yeah, sounds like a common discussion: how high to put the bar. Thanks for the explanation Andrew, it is helpful to understand the reasoning behind this decision.
2013/8/19 Andrew Gray <[email protected]> > Hi Maarten, > > Some notes I made a while back on the problems with including Grade II > (and equivalent): > > a) The lists become huge and difficult to maintain; > b) Grade II contains many of the "non-building" listings; looking at the > 703 Grade II in Cambridge, the first few on the list include a statue, a > boathouse, a couple of walls, and some gates. On my way to work, I cycle > past two telephone boxes, an unremarkable river lock, some respectable > terraced cottages... all grade II listed, and all within a few hundred > meters on the same road. They're individually registered, but they're not > what the general public would consider "listed buildings" (and personally > I'd argue that a lot simply aren't very interesting from Commons' > perspective) > c) Because it contains so many buildings, a lot of them are still people's > homes. This gets us into some complicated and concerning issues; I am not > sure there's much benefit to running a contest encouraging people to go and > take lots of pictures of relatively anonymous houses, and it's quite > possibly going to backfire if we do. It's still something of an issue with > WLM in general, but I'd argue that a Grade I or II* building is less likely > to feel weird in this regard - if you live in it, you're a bit more used to > the idea of public attention than if you live in a less distinctive > building. Grade II almost certainly contains a much higher number of > private residences both proportionately and absolutely. > Andrew. > > On 19 August 2013 21:12, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was just clicking around and ended up at https://commons.wikimedia.org/ >> **wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_**Monuments_2013_in_the_United_** >> Kingdom/Eligible_buildings<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom/Eligible_buildings>. >> I compared it to >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Listed_buildings_in_the_**United_Kingdom<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_the_United_Kingdom>and >> it looks like your excluding 85% of the listed buildings from >> participation. Why? :-( >> >> Maarten >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> WikiLovesMonuments@lists.**wikimedia.org<[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/**wikilovesmonuments<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.**org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> > > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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