Talk:Earth

Wrong value of Equatorial and Prime meridian?

From this text "Earth" and from this other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equator , to have doubtful exact values ​​of Equatorial and Prime meridian, in each values the number of meters is very different surpassing variations of 10 meters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmbeer (talk • contribs) 06:26, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

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Earth is not "otherwise known as the Globe"...

The phrase "the globe" refers to a model of the Earth, as discussed in the article for Globe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.40.111.98 (talk) 19:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm unhappy with most of the old lead paragraph. I've made a proposal on the article. Power~enwiki (talk) 17:33, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

I agree with the removal of the metaphor "globe", and SF words for the earth. You seem to have also removed some references for the age. Was there a reason for this? It's not quite a "grass is green" statement. Dbfirs 19:31, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't believe I did; some references from the second paragraph are in the lead. Please feel free to restore any references I removed. Power~enwiki (talk) 19:34, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Apologies, I seem to have mis-read your edit. All is well. Thank you for your improvement to the article. Dbfirs 06:36, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

BYA, GYA, GA?

Anyone else notice in the article that billion years ago, and other references to it, are in GYA, or GA. That doesn't make sense to me, can anyone explain why GYA isn't BYA? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RandyHK (talk • contribs) 20:54, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

For BYA one would have to specify long or short scale. I don't mind what units are used as long as they are linked to an explanation. Dbfirs 19:35, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Categories

This article's only category is Category:Earth, which is a subcategory of Category:Planets of the Solar System, Category:Places, Category:Terrestrial planets, etc. The problem with this arrangement is that most of Earth's subcategories have nothing to do with these parent categories. For example, "Earth deities" and "Globster" are listed in subcategories of "Habitable zone planets". I boldly moved the Earth article to the Habitable Zone Planets category but it was reverted. Any thoughts? Dlthewave (talk) 15:25, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 July 2017

11:35-4YZ:We plan to improve this text by stating recently discovered information about Earth and what society must know. We will keep this message short and simple, only to let the additions have a greater effect on readers. Thank you. 2600:1011:B15A:A169:2DDF:360D:6FA8:D9C8 (talk) 09:10, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Comment by one editor: I, for one, would prefer that you (plural?) suggest your improvements here so that they can be checked by independent editors. The fact that the only other edit from this IP address was vandalism, suggests that it would be safer to retain the protection. Original research has no place in Wikipedia. Please find somewhere else to publish new research. Dbfirs 09:42, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not requested a change.
Please request your change in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 12:05, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Mean anomaly =

This is not only about Earth but also other planet's pages. The mean anomaly that's constantly changing as planet moves are shown among orbital parameters. E.g. today (26 Aug 2017) this page shows 358.617 degrees. That implies that tomorrow the Earth should be at aphelion which actually as far as I know was early in July. Besides the mean anomaly is shown to the ridiculous precision of 0.001 degrees. That means that it should change every minute and a half which of course it doesn't. If no one bothers with writing a bot constantly changing the pages I suggest cutting it altogether. VeNoo (talk) 01:47, 26 August 2017 (UTC)