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because you've added an extra link that is going to distract many readers. You'll note that the photo is a waterside image, showing part of the site underwater; your typical reader should observe a connection between "destroyed by water" and a shoreline picture. Finally, let me remind you that at DYK we put (pictured) after the link to the article that's the subject of the DYK; you're suggesting to the reader that wave wash erosion is the actual subject and that we accidentally bolded the wrong link.
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Why? Remember, shorter is better, and its period of origin is completely irrelevant to its destruction. There are tons of
Archaic sites (the thing about this one is that it was larger and better preserved than most), so there's no benefit and an actual negative aspect to your proposal, in part
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Now this new term would make the whole thing interesting to me (as a reader) and I would click, because without it, I might have thought "some average archeological site disappeared, who cares? - what is pictured? nothing". I
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detailed article, offline sources accepted AGF. I would be interested in a date or name of a period - since the picture doesn't give a clue, --
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