User talk:Xltel/Pipe Spring National Monument

Tom, I will certainly give you credit for trying; this is probably as complete a guide to Pipe Spring (apart from the absence of photos, and you can't photograph what you haven't seen) as exists outside the NPS itself. But this simply isn't a destination. Look at the content; what is the single largest, most time-requiring thing you added? A half-mile trail? About half of the towns in the western United States have something at least this "major" as part of a town or county park. We don't treat those town parks as destinations.

If you really want to move this into the article and cancel the redirect, go ahead and do so. There are other articles here that describe places that are as clearly non-destinations as this one, or more. We won't be setting an undesirable precedent, getting on a slippery slope, whatever. We'll just have kicked the question of how to deal with the truly minor national monuments down the road a little bit; the world won't end for that, although I'd still like to see a more reasoned policy develop that makes it unnecessary for folks to put effort into non-destinations. -- (WT-en) Bill-on-the-Hill 09:37, 28 November 2006 (EST)