Talk:Wat Phra That Doi Suthep

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 August 2018 and 22 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Josefjacobs32. Peer reviewers: Kalras.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 12:42, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

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I would like the Thai spelling of Doi Suthep. I have tried and tried to find it, but its really hard to search for in Google. If anyone could find it for me... please add it in. Kyle sb 10:03, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I decided I'd have a go at writing the thai spelling in my self. However I only know a modest ammount about the language and it is likely to be wrong. Kyle sb 11:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Short video that was posted here

I've moved this to the Commons gallery and created a separate section for it to draw attention to it. I thought it might be more appropriate there since it's so short and only gives a brief glimpse of the complex while focusing more on the worshippers' activities. --BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 19:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Peer Review

You added quite a bit on a subject that didn't seem to have much information about it to begin with which was good. I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly but it looks like you added a couple of pictures as well to give a better understanding. You had some good descriptions when talking about the temple

I'm definitely no English major so take this next bit with a grain of salt. I don't know if you need to capitalize "Wat" at certain times. Its probably the description I would have used but "The pointy things at the peak of the roof is called a chofa." could maybe be worded a little better. I also found a few spelling and grammatical errors so make sure to proofread before you submit.

Overall I thought it was a good addition to the article. Astanard (talk) 04:24, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Pang Cha

The article doesn't explain where Pang Cha is located. It may be Ban Pang, as referenced in this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khruba_Siwichai

Kortoso (talk) 03:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Distance and height

The article says "15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the city of Chiang Mai". With Google Earth the distance from the Wikidata co-ordinates of Chiang Mai to the foot of the long stairs is 16 km. To reach the center of the temple is another 200 m. Does this mean that the distance should be specified as "16.2 kilometres"? Or is a distance "by road" maybe more a figure for a travel guide and should we have the "as the crow flies" distance of "6.7 kilometres" in the article?

The height is given in the introductory section as "1,073 meters", but in the infobox as "1,050 m (3,445 ft)". Google Earth has 1,056 m for the area that has the central Chedi. Is there a reason for having two different values in the article? If only one value should be specified, which one? FredTC (talk) 02:22, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Chiang Mai is a large city. The distance given is probably a rough number not meant to refer to any specific point in the city. 15 km should be fine, but maybe the convert template could be tweaked to show zero decimal points so the mile conversion isn't over-precise.

I'm not seeing any sources for either of the elevation figures. The 1,073 m was added in this edit and the 1,050 is from a bit earlier when you added the infobox. The widely reproduced figure in most online sources is 1,046 metres, so we should probably stick to that, as grabbing the elevation from Google Earth could be considered original research. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:59, 25 January 2023 (UTC)