Talk:List of World Heritage Sites in the Philippines

Expansion
I think it is right for members of the Jesuit Churches of the Philippines (Extension) and Spanish Colonial Fortifications of the Philippines to have it own boxes just like the Baroque Churches of the Philippines. Readers might think that it is only the Baclayon Church and Taytay Fort being considered to the UNESCO List. --Carlojoseph14 (talk) 14:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * If you can come up with individual articles for the different sites under those collections including the Baroque Churches (extension), then we can probably accommodate those separate entries. Nevertheless, having a representative site and image for each collection under the tentative list would suffice for now. They are listed in the description anyway and are counted as one by UNESCO. :) --RioHondo (talk) 02:19, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Noted. As of now, we only have separate articles for Maragondon Church and Punta Cruz Watchtower. --Carlojoseph14 (talk) 02:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Panglao Island
I think it's a bit cheeky for this place to be included on this list, since the government is ploughing ahead, literally, with building an international airport there. Talk about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs! 112.198.82.85 (talk) 04:04, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think the whole island of Panglao is protected area. Its entry to the WHS tentative list is somewhat confusing tho, as it describes the whole topography of the island but also mentions that it is the protected area established in 2003 that is being nominated, which is a Protected Seascape covering only the coastal areas of Panglao and nearby Balicasag island. When I get the time, I will create the Panglao Island Protected Seascape article and link that to this this instead.--RioHondo (talk) 13:13, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * Hi, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Would it be possible to restore the description and put quotation marks on them as those are the official summaries as inscribed in their WHS markers? If that isnt possible, will have to paraphrase those official descriptions from UNESCO. Thanks and happy new year!--RioHondo (talk) 09:21, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * , there's absolutely no objection to writing descriptions in your own words, with acknowledgement (citation) of the source. On the other hand, in my personal opinion, quoting the entire source text would be an excessive use of quotations. Hope that helps, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:18, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
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Tentative List
The tentative list had a massive overhaul but also the original list wasn't as massive as the future sites here. I would suggest splitting this up into officially list and possible nominations.

As I side note I noticed all these "old towns" are not listed as tentative anymore, I also saw these in person and can't agree they have any UOV. A few old buildings doesn't make it universal value, otherwise massive amount of towns around the world, especially Europe, would be listed. The churches are not special imho. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.190.142.20 (talk) 11:12, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

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Lead
, I have reverted your removal of most of the lead and am going to provide a more elaborate reasoning here. I do apologize for the removal of the MOS:NUM edits and will fix it.

 Gerald WL  08:03, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The first paragraph is important in establishing what UNESCO WHS is, for readers who do not have a high understanding of the criteria and what kind of things get in the list. As I mentioned in the summary, many FLs (credits to for the contributions) have the same lead, and I think it is just appropriate that PH get the same treatment (am eyeing this for an FL with Indonesia and North Korea).
 * The "self-published content" comes from Ivan Henares, a university professor, researcher, and secretary general for UNESCO's Philippine division. Granted this is a rarity in WHS FL leads and Tone can disagree with me on this one, but it doesn't hurt to include this as the article is being improved.

2024 update
This needs to be updated as new sites are added to Philippines' tentative WHS list. It was ambitious for them to revive Intramuros but maybe this is due to recently active campaign of neighboring SEA countries that have similarly reconstructed or damaged properties getting easily inscribed to the WHS list. They got hopeful too with the ever-urbanizing Taal landscape, citing historical towns and the biodiversity inside and around that caldera. These two would certainly be hard to prove the integrity and authenticity of sites, regardless how undeniable OUV status. In this case, my bold suggestion is to include Culion. I love that they have now added the historical landamarks of relevance to sugar heritage of Negros and Panay, albeit too few, that I've been dreaming so long of its tentative status. Also, the "grouping" of previously listed prehistoric sites of Cagayan Valley is a good move as it is the most exciting and probable win like Mayon and Chocolate Hills. Another is recognizing Corregidor Island. Might as well consider Rizal Historical Trail or Philippine Revolution Trail. Meanwhile, Pambansang Museó is doubtful of OUV status of Kabayan Mummies burial caves and the ancient rock art and carvings across the country which is very sad to know they dropped these. Jdlmpo (talk) 19:37, 14 April 2024 (UTC)