Talk:National landmark

U.S. "national landmark" definition

The article states that "national landmark" is a legal term in the U.S. but that is not supported. The article states that in the U.S. a national landmark is either a National Historic Landmark or a National Natural Landmark, but that is not true. Independence Hall, for example, is clearly a "national landmark" in a general sense of the term but it is neither of those. Independence Hall is a U.S. National Historic Park, maybe that is better, but the article as written does not address any hierarchy. There also exist National Historic Sites and maybe other types of designations of landmarks in the U.S. doncram (talk) 16:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Grab bag

This article is a somewhat unhelpful grab bag, which awkwardly tries to cover all "national landmarks" even though a national landmark in one country is not the same thing as a national landmark in another country. In this way, it is not much different than the old National historic site article which similarly conflated different historical designations in different countries that did not share much other than a name in the English language. National historic site was converted to a DAB page, as should this one. Even the (unsourced) lead paragraph to this article appears to be referring strictly to the Canadian version of national landmarks.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 16:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

I noticed it actually used to be a DAB page, but then got expanded in 2007 with a lot of text. Since then, various editors have attempted to disentangle the Canadian and U.S. versions of the term, but it remained an awkward marriage of unrelated concepts. In cleaning up the links that lead to this (now) DAB page, I notice that there may be (subject to linguistic clarification) similarly named designations in Mexico, Ukraine and Israel, which means that one article covering everything called a "national landmark" is even less likely to be viable. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:29, 21 October 2013 (UTC)