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Maybe I am just cranky and unusually suspicious today...
My attention was called to separate article National Historic Lookout Register today by a link to here, which was added there today. In this list-article, I and perhaps others had referred to it and accepted it as having some legitimacy. But I wonder now if that register is close to being a private for-profit thing which should not be linked or covered in Wikipedia at all, or if it is serious and legitimate and comparable to the National Register of Historic Places, say. There are in fact private commercial websites which try to associate themselves with the NRHP program which should not be linked or tolerated in Wikipedia in any way...e.g. https://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/, which is just a bad copy of the official NRHP data in the National Register Information System (NRIS) database, but with added advertisements and with systematic errors in its programming (they don't understand some data definitions, or didn't bother to address them properly). That site and perhaps others (Archipedia?) ostensibly allow for public input/editing, but they are just scams, in effect, trying to appear official. There is in fact some association between the National Park Service and this NHLR, e.g. as in this press release at nps.gov, but the NPS has also tried other partnerships, like with Flickr for engaging the public in collecting photos, which don't amount to much IMHO.
Is there actually an application and review process for the National Historic Lookout Register, or is it just a scam somehow, too? Points that bother me about it, up front:
I wonder:
Pinging editors at its article User:Howcheng, User:Evrik, User:GhostInTheMachine.--Doncram ( talk, contribs) 20:09, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Lookout Name | NHLR Registry Number | Location | Information | Photo | References |
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Foișorul de Foc | NA | Bucharest | Built in 1890 | 50px |
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-- evrik ( talk) 22:55, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Name | Parish | Nearest town or city | Coordinates | Status | Notes |
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Abita lookout tower [1] | St. Tammany | Mandeville | 30°26′14″N 90°02′45″W / 30.43722°N 90.04583°W | Still standing. | Unsure if still used, property is owned and actively used by the LA Dept. of Agriculture. Can be seen here on Google Street View. |
Aimwell Lookout Tower | Catahoula | Aimwell (Northeast of Jena) | 31°47′48″N 91°58′46″W / 31.79667°N 91.97944°W | Torn down? | Cannot verify on aerial imagery, removed from USGS maps in 2015. Aimwell Lookout Tower |
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 17:30, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Maybe I am just cranky and unusually suspicious today...
My attention was called to separate article National Historic Lookout Register today by a link to here, which was added there today. In this list-article, I and perhaps others had referred to it and accepted it as having some legitimacy. But I wonder now if that register is close to being a private for-profit thing which should not be linked or covered in Wikipedia at all, or if it is serious and legitimate and comparable to the National Register of Historic Places, say. There are in fact private commercial websites which try to associate themselves with the NRHP program which should not be linked or tolerated in Wikipedia in any way...e.g. https://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/, which is just a bad copy of the official NRHP data in the National Register Information System (NRIS) database, but with added advertisements and with systematic errors in its programming (they don't understand some data definitions, or didn't bother to address them properly). That site and perhaps others (Archipedia?) ostensibly allow for public input/editing, but they are just scams, in effect, trying to appear official. There is in fact some association between the National Park Service and this NHLR, e.g. as in this press release at nps.gov, but the NPS has also tried other partnerships, like with Flickr for engaging the public in collecting photos, which don't amount to much IMHO.
Is there actually an application and review process for the National Historic Lookout Register, or is it just a scam somehow, too? Points that bother me about it, up front:
I wonder:
Pinging editors at its article User:Howcheng, User:Evrik, User:GhostInTheMachine.--Doncram ( talk, contribs) 20:09, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Lookout Name | NHLR Registry Number | Location | Information | Photo | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foișorul de Foc | NA | Bucharest | Built in 1890 | 50px |
http |
References
-- evrik ( talk) 22:55, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Name | Parish | Nearest town or city | Coordinates | Status | Notes |
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Abita lookout tower [1] | St. Tammany | Mandeville | 30°26′14″N 90°02′45″W / 30.43722°N 90.04583°W | Still standing. | Unsure if still used, property is owned and actively used by the LA Dept. of Agriculture. Can be seen here on Google Street View. |
Aimwell Lookout Tower | Catahoula | Aimwell (Northeast of Jena) | 31°47′48″N 91°58′46″W / 31.79667°N 91.97944°W | Torn down? | Cannot verify on aerial imagery, removed from USGS maps in 2015. Aimwell Lookout Tower |