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|Why doesn't this article give equal weight to [[young Earth creationism]] or similar cultural points of view?
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|This article focuses on the [[scientific consensus]] about the Earth. Per [[WP:PSCI|our policy on fringe theories and pseudoscience]], [[Wikipedia:Fringe theories|fringe theories]] about the Earth need not be given equal weight. Such views normally have their own well-developed articles where there is more weight given to presenting the specific philosophies.
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|Why is [[the Blue Marble]] image used in the infobox?
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!style="vertical-align: top;"|A.
|There are multiple reasons. The image is iconic, famous and is one of the few true photographic images of Earth. It has also been a featured image since November 2004. Other images may present more detail of the land masses, but they are generally composite or processed images. For some previous discussions see ([[Talk:Earth/Archive_11#Semiprotected?|1]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_15#Restoring_back_the_previous,_long-term_image|2]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_14#Lead_image:_Blue_Marble_or_NASA_composite?|3]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_14#Earth_Banner_Image_-_Nominate,_Comment,_and_Vote!|4]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_13#Better_image?|5]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_13#New_Earth_Picture|6]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_13#New_Blue_Marble|7]]).
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|Why does the article not have {{tq|mostly harmless}} as its short description or otherwise summarize the article's content using it?
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!style="vertical-align: top;"|A.
|This has been discussed several times including ([[Talk:Earth/Archive_13#Humorous_references_to_the_Douglas_Adams'_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_are_inappropriate_content_for_this_article|1]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_14#Semi-protected_edit_request_on_31_May_2014|2]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_15#Semi-protected_edit_request_on_20_January_2016|3]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_15#Semi-protected_edit_request_on_10_April_2018|4]] [[Talk:Earth/Archive_16#Proposed_amendment_of_description_to_'Mostly_harmless'|5]]). The consensus is that it fails [[WP:42]].
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