I have had a go at getting Gemini to produce a full list of all 139 sites achiving that sort of objective There are 2 different numbering systems in use (pre and post inscription!) and it wasn't easy.... it adds to 139 but i haven't checked every last location. I then asked Gemini to identify the nations buried at or commemorated at each and to produce a "statement of significance" for each (Architecture, Sculpture, anyone famous etc etc). And finally to assign a "tier" of significance .. We could argue for ever but I was reasonably impressed with the assignment across 3 tiers
Tier 1 = 23 "Iconic"
Tier 2 = 59 "National/Regional"
Tier 3 = 57 "Tactical/Local"
Some of those in tiers 2 and 3 certainly have their interest but the Significance Text allows them to be assessed reasonably quickly.

It has produced a spreadsheet which I have "improved" a bit. It does not render well on the forum and I will send it to Els for her to put up if she wishes. For your info these are the 26 Tier 1 locations with ref numbers, locations etc
No/ Code/ Region/ UN ID/ Site Name/ Tier/ Nations/ Full Significance & Architectural Features
1 AR11-1 Artois 51 Vimy (Pylons) 1 CA Canada's National Memorial. Twin white limestone pylons; land "granted in perpetuity" by France.
2 AR16-1 Artois 60 Lorette Necrop. 1 FR Largest military cemetery in France (45,000 graves). Center of French national mourning.
3 AR16-3 Artois 60 Ring of Rememb. 1 ALL Elliptical ring listing 580,000 names from all sides in alphabetical order without rank.
4 AR19 Artois 91 Richebourg 1 PT Portuguese National Cemetery. Manueline Gothic style; honors the "Battle of the Lys."
5 ME03-1 Meuse 3 Douaumont Ossuary 1 FR/DE Heart of Verdun. Lantern tower overlooks a vault containing co-mingled bones of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers.
6 ME03-2 Meuse 3 Douaumont Nat Necrop 1 FR Vast necropolis holding16,142 identified graves. Definitive image of French sacrifice with endless rows of white crosses.
7 ME13-1 Meuse 22 Nécrop Nat de "La Maize" 1 Fr Cemetery for soldiers killed at the Butte de Vauquois. A ridge hollowed out by 519 mine explosions. Preserved "Swiss cheese" of craters and tunnels.
8 ME21 Meuse 46 Meuse-Argonne 1 US Largest US site in Europe (14,246 graves). Masterpiece of landscape design with a massive chapel.
9 PC01 Artois 94 Neuve-Chapelle 1 IN/PK Indian National Memorial. Circular enclosure with Ashoka Column honoring the missing.
10 SO01-1 Somme 77 Thiepval Mem. 1 UK/SA Largest British memorial in the world. 16 interlocking arches bear names of 72,246 missing.
11 SO02-1 Somme 80 Noyelles Chinese 1 CN Primary site for Chinese Labour Corps in Europe. Headstones in English and Chinese.
12 SO04-1 Somme 86 Beaumont-Hamel 1 CA Newfoundland National Memorial. Bronze Caribou bellows over preserved 1916 trench lines.
13 SO06 Somme 88 Villers-Bret. 1 AU Australia's National Memorial in France. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
14 SO10 Somme 111 Delville Wood 1 ZA South African National Memorial. Shaped like the Cape Castle to honor the 1916 defense.
15 VO02-1 Vosges 105 Hartmanns. 1 FR/DE "Mountain of Death." High-altitude crypt and altar overlooking mountain trenches.
16 WA08 Wallonia 135 St. Symphorien 1 UK/DE Most poignant site on the front. Contains first and last British deaths. Built by Germans on Belgian land; a unique site of total reconciliation.
17 WA10 Wallonia 116 Ploegsteert Mem. 1 UK A massive circular colonnade designed by H.L. North, guarded by two majestic stone lions. It commemorates over 11,000 soldiers who have no known grave in the "Plugstreet" sector.
18 WP01 Flanders 65 Langemark 1 DE Known as the "Student Cemetery," it memorializes the myth of young volunteers sacrificed in 1914. It features the Kameradengrab (comrades' grave) containing 24,917 burials and Emil Krieger's haunting bronze sculpture of four mourning soldiers.
19 WP04 Flanders 68 Vladslo 1 DE Home to the world-renowned "Grieving Parents" sculptures by Käthe Kollwitz. The site is a masterpiece of 20th-century mourning art, where the statues look toward the grave of Kollwitz's own son, Peter.
20 WP10 Flanders 118 Essex Farm 1 UK/CA The site where Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields." It is significant for its preserved concrete Advanced Dressing Station (ADS) bunkers, which still show the cramped conditions of the wounded.
21 WP14 Flanders 123 Vancouver Corner 1 CA Features the "Brooding Soldier" statue, a 35-foot granite memorial with the head bowed in grief. It marks the spot where Canadian troops faced the world's first large-scale poison gas attack in 1915.
22 WP17 Flanders 128 Tyne Cot 1 UK/CW The world's largest CWGC cemetery. Built around captured German pillboxes. The Great Cross is perched atop a central bunker as a symbol of the ultimate conquest of the ridge.
23 WP19 Flanders 133 Menin Gate 1 UK/CW A "secular cathedral" of memory listing 54,395 missing. Site of the nightly Last Post Ceremony, a tradition unbroken since 1928.

I came to this topic to reply, but Solivagant has beaten me to it.
What I wanted to say is that although it certainly is interesting to highlight the "best" among the set, these WWI memorials seem to have been selected very carefully and they include a lot of "equal" highlights. Certainly more than 5 or so. Solivagant uncovered even 26 of them, a list worth keeping/showing indeed.

"Down" to 23 now as i started double checking Gemini's identification of the locations.... sometimes it has assessed on the basis of the battle rather than the cemetery! As a result 3 have been downgraded from 1 to 2 or 3. But that isn't the issue .... any can easily be adjusted once we have a proper understanding of what they are. The main thing is to have a short, clear and correct understanding of what EVERY location offers. There are a number of "minor" ones certainly among the 139 but even they can spring a surprise e.g AR06 Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) was only built in 2010 (Connection??)

Some interesting ones I wasn't aware of are emerging .... this one for instance in the Vosges... I dont think anyone has reviewed?? Gemini assigned Tier 1 - correctly I think?

I am also trying to add a web link for each location to supplement a description

Sorry I'm a bit late replying, and I think my point got muddled a bit by propossing some specific locations (which was to some extent a secondary focus), so perhaps this is more of a general map issue than core zone mapping of WW1.

I was just wondering if there was some way of visually drawing attention to more intersting/ satitisfying visits/ significant parts of multi location inscriptions.

If I leave aside the First World War one for a moment and think about the Pile Dwellings, the maps at the moment don't guide eyes to locations that provide a more satistfying visiting experince, such as Molina di Ledro and Fiave, or the museum next to Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen. The information is there for people to find them (community perspective/ museum locations) but opening up the map the visual clues aren't instantly obvious, and it takes a bit of work to peice it all together.

In regards to the OUV all the points are equally as important and currated, but as a visitor the experince of a site could be wildly different visiting one location compared to another. I would think it mostly is of use in the sites we list with more than 50 locations (St Petersburg is a bit of an exception there I think as there is a clear focal point)

I'm not sure if there is an entirley elegant solution (something bolder for locations picked out as highlights in the community perspective perhaps?) or if as the discussion here suggests, making value judgments on equally inscribed locations risks becoming too prescriptive.

In coming Sunday's blog post I will show an example on how we could move forward with this topic, with the WWI WHS as an example. It is based on the work Solivagant (and Gemini) did, translated by me from a spreadsheet to various elements on the website. Let's discuss further from there and then.

But still, I am not convinced that the WWI WHS needs eyecatchers, or a top 5 or so. It is by definition a WHS where the components are fairly equal and a visit to any (maybe barring 10 or 20%) will bring you something.

Our assumption is that others (Pile Dwellings, Mediterranean Rock Art) are less equal, but actually we do not know for sure unless we do an exercise in Tier 1, 2 and 3 like Solivagant did for the WWI. The Beech Forests for example have some weak components, but my assumption would be that they are also more equal.

Thanks for transfering this over Els.

Yeah perhaps the First World War site isn't the primary example for this as the selection was rigorous, but I look forward to seeing the blog post on Sunday as a potential example.

I must admit the issue mostly came from me trying to find the locations I visited on a school trip in 1997, and finding it tough to pick out Vimy and Thiepval on the map.

I think my idea would be like giving slight visual clues on the maps, in a similar way to how we pick out key locations in the community perspective in the introductory text, not necessarily saying these are the best, or it isn't a visit until you have visited this, more that a more satisfying general visit can be gained from these sights.

I'm not sure what is technically feasible, but my initial thoughts would be along the lines of the icons being one/ some/ all of the following:
-a different hue/ colour,
-marginally larger,
-less oppacity,
-a thin border/ shadow

or perhaps a different Icon, though I think that would be my least prefered option to start with.

As a reminder, this is the list with serial sites with over 50 locations, for which this could apply:

https://www.worldheritagesite.org/connections/serial-sites-with-the-greatest-number-of-locations/