A fact from Balberta appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 December 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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I strongly suggest that the sentence under the "Location" heading starting with "The plantations are..." and ending with "...on the season" be deleted. What is now grown on the site is quite irrelevant to this article. This is like saying, in an article on the Acropolis, that "The Caryatids are now facing the Hellas Hotel, Athens' finest luxury hotel, with suites costing from US$ 230 to US$ 450 per night." Writtenright (talk) 21:20, 10 December 2009 (UTC)writtenright[reply]
I would say that current use of the site is not irrelevant to an article that falls within the scope of archaeology. Current land use can have a profound impact upon the state of the archaeological remains, accessibility of the ruins etc. The information may not be relevant to the history of the site but is relevant to an encyclopaedic article on the site, which should be as broad in scope as possible. See for example Quiriguá, which passed FA and includes land-use and geology. The cultivation of maize is particularly relevant to Mesoamerican sites since it was the staple component of the ancient Mesoamerican diet, and the fact that it is possible to cultivate it locally would have been important to the local populace. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 09:27, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
