Talk:World Heritage

Significance?

Does this mean we can get deletionists prosecuted for crimes against humanity? ;) Wnt 15:58, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

UNESCO recognition: nothing to be proud of

This foolish goal reminds me of the days of boot-licking courtiers who wanted nothing more than to be recognized by the glorious king, the same king who kept the real producers of the realm in serfdom and misery. The United Nations and its agencies are the new aristocracy of power and political pull, blithely consuming resources extracted by force in order to promote their special interests, such as humiliating their rivals (see UNESCO on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and rewarding their friends or benefactors.

There is a huge danger that UNESCO may actually do what you ask and recognize Wikipedia as a World Heritage Site, after which Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation acquire an invisible mantle of state sanction and may begin to attract support from state-supported foundations and institutions of various types, which is to say, blood money. After a while, you turn around, and they own you, as surely as the king owns the royal printer.

Of course, this may all be a paranoid fantasy, since the UN is renowned for its unwavering support for American-style freedom of speech. I've even heard that UNESCO weighed in against the Wikipedia image hiding feature, but that may be only a rumor. —Blanchette 23:01, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]