Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Earth

Earth[edit]

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 22, 2021 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:51, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Blue Marble photograph of Earth, taken by the Apollo 17 mission.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets. About 29% of Earth's surface is land, with the remaining 71% covered with water and much of Earth's polar regions covered in ice. Earth's interior is active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field, and a convecting mantle that drives plate tectonics. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. Almost 8 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival, but increasingly impact Earth's surface, atmosphere and other life. (Full article...)

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Main editors: RJHall, Devonian Wombat, Femkemilene and Mikenorton
Promoted: April 21, 2007
Reasons for nomination: April 22 is Earth day, important article for its inhabitants, and the article was improved significantly at FAR last year. I just wrote the blub myself, so I know our prose experts can improve it. It appeared last on the main page on April 22, 2010.
Support as nominator. FemkeMilene (talk) 19:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support, this is a rerun, but it has been over ten years since it last ran, and we should showcase improvement at FAR of an article at this level (of pageviews and importance). It is a level 1 Vital article, and a WP:MILLION. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:50, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:IDONTLIKEIT. P anini ^🥪 20:40, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Vital article, strong date connection, and a very good example of the kind of positive work that can happen at FAR. Hog Farm _Talk 02:55, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Hog Farm and SandyGeorgia. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 17:05, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]