Talk:National historic site

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[edit] Deletion or replacement of this article by a disambiguation page

As discussed also at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#Discussion needing input, I feel this article is not helpful and should be deleted or replaced by a disambiguation page.

Currently National Historic Site and National Historic Sites redirect to this wikipedia article National historic site, and this article is misleading. This article attempts to make up a kind of a definition for a term "national historic site" out of thin air. Currently, the article describes "national historic sites" in a generic way. In its section on national historic sites in the United States, the specific National Historic Site program operated by the U.S. National Park Service is mentioned, but so is the NRHP program. This is confusing. It would be very reasonable for a reader to take from this that any site which is listed in the NRHP is a U.S. national historic site / National Historic Site, and that therefore that say, the Dickson Mounds site is a National Historic Site. I believe we want National Historic Site to mean the specific program, and this article on generic National historic sites just muddies the waters.

I guess I think that this article should be wiped out and replaced by a disambiguation page. Material here ought to be moved to new, separate articles on Canada's National Historic Site program and on the U.S.'s National Historic Site program, and a pointer to the NRHP program could also be provided. But it should be clearly stated that there is no universal definition of "national historic site". Perhaps this should be implemented by moving the current article to "National Historic Site program of Canada", because it appears to me the current article is more about Canada's program than the U.S. one, and that would preserve its edit history. Then set up the disambiguation at the original location. Also, List of national historic sites of Canada should be renamed to List of National Historic Sites of Canada.

Comments? If there are no objections I will implement such changes soon. doncram (talk) 13:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)