Thanks for the clarification Lodewijk! We'll see what we can do at this end to smooth over any problems, if they occur.
FWIW, the UK listed buildings on the Falkland islands are here: http://www.falklands.info/background/listedb.html - I'm sure we've got some falkland islanders around somewhere... Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 21 August 2012 17:36, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> wrote: > Hi, > > We have discussed this issue quite up front actually - and decided to > follow our usual path. Wiki Loves Monuments is based on what countries > recognize as monuments - in this case the national heritage board of > Argentina. We don't want to selectively shop in such a list, as that would > be original research - which isn't allowed per Wikipedia policies. > > If the UK would have participated, that would simply have resulted in two > sets of monuments on these islands. One set as recognized by the Argentina > government, and one set as recognized by the UK government (if there are > monuments there recognized by the UK). There are some more examples like > this: Argentina also recognized some monuments in Antarctica and some > countries have recognized monuments in former colonies, or they have > recognized buildings that have been moved to another country over time > (i.e. taken apart and reconstructed elsewhere, or shipwrecks). > > Anyway, we don't want to take a political approach here but I don't > exclude the possibility that this is taking an interest in Latin American > media at some point. I suggest that then the explanation as above could be > used to explain that it's about the neutrality principles of Wikipedia - > and not about taking a political stance. > > Lodewijk > > 2012/8/21 Richard Symonds <richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> > >> Not yet. Needs sensitive handling, I think - and mailing list discussions >> aren't very sensitive! >> >> Richard Symonds >> Wikimedia UK >> 0207 065 0992 >> Disclaimer viewable at >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer >> Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk >> >> >> >> On 21 August 2012 12:58, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 21 August 2012 12:54, Richard Symonds >>> <richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: >>> >>> > At £2k for a non-commercial flight, it could be quite tricky to get >>> /anyone/ >>> > down there. Even sending cargo is quite expensive. From South America, >>> it's >>> > about £500. >>> >>> >>> Are there any Wikimedians in the Falklands? I'm sure WMUK can lend >>> them its name, for the sake of good will all round! >>> >>> Has anyone cc'ed WMAR on this yet? >>> >>> >>> - d. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> >
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