Talk:Lothagam North Pillar Site

A fact from Lothagam North Pillar Site appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that at approximately 5,000 years old, the Lothagam North Pillar Site is thought to be the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa?

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article name[edit]

Hey, Evrik, here checking a DYK set. I just wanted to confirm that the capitalization on this article title is correct per MOS? I just don't want someone to move it while it's on the main page. --valereee (talk) 15:48, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee:, as far as I know! --evrik ^(talk) 16:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem to be capped that way in all but one of the sources, so I think it must be a complete proper name for the site. --valereee (talk)
- I'm an archaeologist who's worked on these pillar sites, and these days we're capitalizing as indicated in the title. Hope that helps. Ninafundisha (talk) 18:24, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  Ninafundisha, thank you! --valereee (talk) 20:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinked see also[edit]

Add these in if they go blue. --evrik ^(talk) 20:58, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: The Archaeology of Africa[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2023 and 1 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mbug333 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Sylvie Wav, Mjbergner.

— Assignment last updated by Usomi (talk) 19:09, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Images[edit]

The image for the Lothagam North Pillar Site shown in the Infobox is not actually the Lothagam North Pillar Site - there are lots of paleontological sites in the Lothagam area and whatever is depicted here must be one of those. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete this image from the infobox - I don't see it in the source code at all. @Ian (Wiki Ed), any chance you could help? I will try to find pictures of the pillar site to send to the student editor (@Mbug333). Thanks! Ninafundisha (talk) 18:19, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ninafundisha It looks like Template:Infobox ancient site pulls the image directly from Wikidata if the Image field isn't filled out here. So there are a few options to fix this.

You can do to d:Q85782261, the item on Wikidata, and change the image to one that actually reflects the site (assuming that one exists) or remove it entirely (both of the images in Commons:Category:Lothagam North Pillar Site appear to be elsewhere at Lothagam, just to confuse things further, so that might need fixing too).
You can edit the article in Source mode and add |image = and another file from Commons (leaving out the File: prefix)
You can edit the article using the visual editor. In edit mode click on the infobox and then click "Edit" in the box that pops up below the infobox. Then click "Image" on the left sidebar of the edit box that picks up, which will add an "Image" line to the form. Then add the image name as you would in #2, click on "Apply changes" and then "Publish changes".

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:08, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ian! I'll get this fixed ASAP. Ninafundisha (talk) 16:16, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]