2013/7/23 Bas vb <basvb_wikipedia(a)live.nl>nl>:
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_Douaumo…
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