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There's an ongoing AFD, involving some editors' concerns regarding list criteria, but it's striking there was no attempt to have any discussion here, at all. Assuming this list-article is kept, it remains an issue what counts as "heritage" and what counts as "destroyed" and what types of items should be included here. --Doncram (talk) 19:32, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The current lede suggests that for "destroyed" this is for places that have "been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster, sorted by state. Only those buildings and structures which fulfill Wikipedia's standards of notability should be included. The simplest test of this is whether the building or structure has its own article page." Offhand I think the last two sentences or ones like them (getting at notability of items) belong here on the Talk page, not in the article itself. About what type of "destroyed" the list is addressing, speaking informally, I think it should be more clearly about places where it is "bad" that the place got destroyed, where at least some think it was a shame and a problem. In economic terms, where there was a public externality of public pride or the like, not internalized by the owner, say. Not just any old bridge or airport terminal or warehouse or baseball stadium, which might have been replaced by something better in all respects, including for the wider community. About the cases where there was/is significant public indignation, concern, despair, disagreement about it being destroyed. Not sure if this covers natural disaster situations, if there is not a big factor of human responsibility involved. These terms could be formalized. --Doncram (talk) 17:26, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
