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Author elsslots
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#1 | Posted: 10 May 2008 12:24 | Edited by: elsslots 
Forum guidelines
* If you want to propose a site, post a NEW topic about it on the 'Top 50 Missing' forum. Both sites from already existing Tentative Lists and completely new ones can be proposed. Be sure to follow the Unesco guidelines though (see below).
* If you want more clarification on a proposal or have something to add: do so on the same topic as the original was proposed.
* Do not recommend a site from your own country. Contribution to arguments where one has been "nominated" is possible.
* There will be a separate voting stage later this year.

Unesco guidelines
"To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria.
i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;
iii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;
v. to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change;
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria);
vii. to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;
viii. to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features;
ix. to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;
x. to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.

Practical issues
It might be helpful to use a template like the one below:

Full name of site:
Country:
Short description of site (also include multiple locations if applicable):
Criteria (cultural, natural, mixed):
Outstanding universal value / comparative analysis:

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