We have encountered an unexpected problem with monuments of Minorca (http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llista_de_monuments_de_Menorca). There are about 1,000 monuments, most of them of Talayotic culture (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaiotic_Cultura), possibly with an unclear demarcation between the categories of monument and archaeological area, two of the categories defined for Bien de Interés Cultural (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bien_de_Inter% C3% A9s_Cultural). We have contacted with the person in charge of heritage in the island council asking for help to identify them and locate them as the online register only contains the name and little else. His answer is that we must limit to 65 monuments that are accessible to the public. The reason is that most are on private lands and they want to avoid spolation. He recognizes out of the record that most are not monuments. I think they probably lack of protection and I know the islanders are very sensitive that tourists do not invade private lands.

As a Wikipedian I can not accept it. The register of monuments is public information, monuments are protected by law, we can not redefine if a monument should be in the arqueological area category and we can not limit the information based on problems or interests of the administration. But from WLM viewpoint, probably it is not appropiate causing problems and perhaps it makes nonsense to suggest participants to go to inaccessible places to take photos of ruins or caves or to suggest them monuments that we can not correctly identify. Moroever, the amount of 65 would be within the Spanish average.

I am confused with this. Any suggestions?