 The quality of National Register nominations is high, but there are common errors that we see at the National Park Service that the State Preservation Offices see in the preparation of National Register nominations. Some of these are technical errors, forgetting to include maps, poor photography of the resource. The most common problem that we see with nominations is the lack of a true argument for why the property is important. We see nominations that are filled with genealogy that does not relate to the significance of the resource. We see lots of historic background without any indication that the information provided relates to the argument for significance. We also see people submitting nominations claiming many National Register criteria or many areas of significance without providing the information that backs up that claim. While in an ideal world each property would be evaluated for all of its potential areas of significance and all of the National Register criteria, the reality is it only takes one criterion and one area of significance to get the property listed. So a nomination narrative should focus on the historical background as it relates to the criterion and area of significance chosen.