Talk:Glendale Ridge Archaeological Site

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Pipelinking Hudsonville, Indiana is unnecessary: what is of direct relevance to this article is Hudsonville specifically, and not Indiana generally. WP:OVERLINK says (in part): "What generally should not be linked.... In particular, unless they are particularly relevant to the topic of the article, the following are not usually linked:... the names of major geographic features and locations...."
"The site is presently located within a levee" means exactly the same thing as "The site is located within a levee" because the present tense of the verb indicates the present condition of the site. So "presently" is redundant.
"a levee, which was intentionally built over the site in order to protect it" means the same thing as "a levee, which was built over the site in order to protect it" because "in order to" indicates the intent of the builders, so "intentionally" is redundant here.

Ground Zero | t 03:46, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By discarding "intentionally", you take away the emphasis: this stresses the fact that they didn't build the levee and then decide to keep going after discovering the site, or something like that. By discarding "presently", you obscure the emphasis on the recency of this condition: archaeological literature typically uses this kind of wording to indicate a temporary or recent status. The literature routinely will say something like "The site is located on a ridge" while "The site is presently located on the northern side of the river, although until a river avulsion 200BP, it was located on the other side". The locals would disagree with your assertion that Indiana is not directly relevant to this site, and please remember that we're not all Americans here. Nyttend (talk) 02:16, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]