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Jennifer Gardiner (26 November 2020). "Google earth images suggest utah monolith has been there for several-years". ABC4 Utah. Retrieved 28 November 2020. According to a newly created Wikipedia Page dedicated to the Utah monolith, public officials announced the discovery but withheld its location to prevent people from getting lost while trying to find it.
Call it Utah monolith (2020). When adding year disambiguates we don't go by common name. Personally I think it should be Utah metal monolith which is more descriptive, and disambiguates at the same time, all other monoliths are natural. WP:COMMONNAME says Editors should also consider all five of the criteria for article titles outlined above. Ambiguous or inaccurate names for the article subject, as determined in reliable sources, are often avoided even though they may be more frequently used by reliable sources.. This is precisly the case here. Most of those sources were contemporary to the event, when everyone knew what it meant, but Wikipedia is writing for a 100 year audience, they don't have the context of knowing what "Utah monolith" means. It fails the WP:CRITERIA list of name ("Precision"), it's ambiguous, and by extension fails COMMONNAME per the green quote. -- GreenC19:47, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
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The lead says "similar metal columns were erected throughout the world, including elsewhere in North America and countries in Europe, South America and Australia" but this is not sourced/mentioned later in the article. Commander Keane (talk) 12:12, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the catch! The attached Business Insider source mentions California, Europe, and Australia, but not South America, so I've removed it from the lead and also added a sentence under "Similar monoliths" where it belongs. I was able to find a Newsweek source from 2024 that shows the full map (verifying South America and Africa) but I'm not sure where their information is coming from or if it's usable. 〜Askarion✉12:27, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
