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There are two figures given for the Earth's population - 7.442 Billion at the beginning of the article and 6.45 Billion in the table further down the article. Which is it? If the two figures are taken from different sources, can't we agree on one source - say a UN estimate? I know this is written further below, but I'd like to highlight this problem, as it is the most glaring insufficiency in the article. - Thucydides411 06:39, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
~perhaps the world population went down from the beginning to the end of writing the article... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.186.103.47 ( talk) 22:02, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Nice Kan199887 ( talk) 11:31, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
I think these posts can be removed. However it may be appropriate to include more information about "people" as the definition of this article claims to be: population, at least. I think the rest should stay on the page for "Earth". But more stats in general could be helpful to clarify what "the World" refers to: humanity on this planet (since there is only 'one' World). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tolkien5 ( talk • contribs) 01:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
The way I see it, we have a few choices on what should happen when you visit "World" in wikipedia, and up to this point, we seem to have attempted all of the choices at once. Here are the possibilities I can imagine:
Right now it is a disambiguation page in which all the possible meanings have begun to grow roots and turn into mini articles, and which deceptively introduces itself as an article about Earth. The article called "Earth" is the article about Earth, so if it is about Earth it is a redirect.
If, as RobLa suggests above, almost all links to World intend to refer to Earth, then it seems that that is the most common interpretation, and that there should be a separate disambiguation page for all the many other meanings of World. Right now I'm going to do the easiest part, which is remove the silly part at top which tells you something you can prove wrong within seconds of visiting the page, that this article is about the Earth.
Cesoid 01:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't know Old English terribly well, but it sounds odd that a translation of the original meaning of "world" would include an "of" which indicates some level of posessessive-relationship between "age" and "man". Shouldn't it be simply "man age"? The term "Age of Man" has a somewhat different connotation than a simple compound term in modern English, and especially when capitalized. Does anyone know enough about Old English to comment on this?
Peter Isotalo 13:51, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion around physical vs political geography. Is there an analogy with country which can denote both a geographical area and a political/social grouping of people? I'm looking for something more social or political, concerning breadth of community. Thus eg United Nations denotes a world organisation which includes all nation states. Also any sense of community which exists beyond a given boundary eg leaving the family and going out into the world. I'm not sure if this meaning is covered here, or belongs elsewhere. I've also been looking at World (of Humans).-- Mindmass 19:35, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, I would really love to know what dictionaries you found that gave you werr-eld as the roots for english word 'world!' Certainly I do not find this in Webster - and all my knowledge of germanic languages leads me to believe that the word 'world' is much older than the Old English roots which you postulate here. More likely the word 'world' comes from a single root, seeing how widely spread the said root is among germanic-speaking countries: Dutch = wereld, German = Welt, Frisian = wrâld Swedish = värld, and so forth. However, the first root you postulate here is 'Wer,' which is old english and more likely came from one of the Gaelic languages' words for a 'man' or 'person.' I would like to call into question the accuracy of your etymology here, and note that there appear to be other pages with similar views which are linked here - Wight is the first one i've noticed, perhaps there are others. I hope this gets some discussion going, so hopefully we can modify or strike these fancied etymologies from the Wiki article. Thanks. Mo fìor ghaol 02:24, 15 December 2005
Wer-eld as age or life of man seems questionable as it could just as eaily translate to old man. Symmetric Chaos 12:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've posted on the village pump requesting assistance here. Lets see if we can get more people into this discussion and work out a consensus on the best way to deal with the article, the name of the secondary and other ways to deal with any issues. exolon 12:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I have added proctection to this article because there has been a lot of vandalism lately, and it can't continuing. ImperialAssassin 23:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Time again to add semi-protection for a little while? The vandalism is coming often, and pretty exclusively from anonymous IPs. Fractalchez 21:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Uh huh, I agree, I went to it to get some information just now and it is still vandalised (has been for some time now, but I am not knowledgeable in Wikipedia enough to know how to revert changes..)
The percentage in the population table does not make sense, can anyone explain what does that represent? -- Cyktsui 03:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm new to editing so please excuse any mistakes... The table states that the world population is ~6450M, Africa-Eurasia is listed as taking up about 84% of that, then Africa and Eurasia are listed seperately, meaning the %ages add up to more than 100%... incredibly confusing. Seems to me it would be better to list world total, then a sequence of %ages that add up to 100 (Allowing for some rounding error) - ie not list Africa-Eurasia seperately. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Basiclife 16:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Where is the Shouther Cone?
wow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.223.114 ( talk) 11:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cone
If, as the article states: "The world is a proper noun", shouldn't it be capitalized as such? – pd_THOR | =/\= | 04:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the "Physical characteristics" part be moved into the Earth article? As this article states, "world" doesn't always mean Earth but "Earth" always means Earth.
Also, does the "Human population" part belong in the "Physical charatceristics" section? – Alensha talk 18:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Agree, there's more to the world than earth. It should rather, like world development start with the most general usage, and continue to "details", like Humanity. Mikael Häggström ( talk) 10:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I'm not sure about this, but shouldn't the etymology be covered in wiktionary? J Hill 22:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
most wikipedian articles have an etymology section so I think it is appropriate that etymology be part of this article, after all we have the ability to deliver valuable information through that section. Ridoco234 ( talk) 01:36, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
As soon as I figure out how... which I hope will be soon enough, I'm going to reduce this article to bare bones! Admit, it is exactly the kind of article that wikipedia gets made fun of for, neither here nor there, contains almost no pulp, it is misleading (there really is nothing here about what "the world" or "a world" is) and just for the sake of filling a page on a fundamental word it's fleshed with vague references to human activities or rather things that the word "world" can be used as an adjective before. If anyone likes this page let them create a "World (adjective)" page. The world is a planet, or slightly more figuratively, "the vast array of earthly phenomena known to man as a whole". It looks silly to write about it as a country. grendel's mother 08:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Revamped, as promised (see my comments in this discussion above). The rest of the article has been moved to "world (adjective)". As further evidence of what I wrote above please note that of all the languages this article appears in English is the only one to take the subject beyond the noun definition. I plan to use the Czech page as a reference for fleshing this one out sometime soon, and to put more work into world (adjective). Please do not revert the page without dealing specifically with my points above. Best, grendel's mother 11:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
This article needs to take on a format that defines world, it's cultures, its religions, demographics etc. much like the CIA world factobook article on the subject redoing the entire article may be necessary as this article does not focus as it should on humans, the world is the human layer of the earth. Please feedback this article needs to be revised and realized to its true potential. Ridoco234 ( talk) 22:57, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The table data gives area as 57,506,055 sq miles. I suspect this is land area. Should we give land area, ocean area and total area? crandles ( talk) 10:38, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
The article should explain the meaning of "world" as a noun in its own right. Instead, it keeps degenerating into a list of things that are prefixed with "world-", i.e. world population, world economy, world gross product, world history, world government, world war, etc. etc. Of course all these terms make use of the concept "world", but listing them does nothing for this article.
The only sections that seem strictly on topic are "etymology and usage" and "philosophy".
I can only suspect that the creation of World (adjective) was somehow triggered by an awareness of this problem, but as it stands it just duplicates it instead of contributing to a solution. -- dab (𒁳) 11:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Another time the sentence:
It is false. See the discussion of the Timaeus about only one world. The Greek word for "world", κόσμος, "kósmos", do not appear in that text of the Republic. "Intelligible world", "world of the ideas", etc., are from Philo and the Neoplatonics, and from these are used in bad translations and mistaken interpretations.
-- Gonzalcg ( talk) 02:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The definition given to "world" is "the planet Earth and all life on it". Does that mean astronauts living in the ISS are literally "out of this world"? OlJa 11:14, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
There's a problem with the first line of this. Strictly speaking world refers to a planet, most often the earth. While the article does a good job of demonstrating the more inclusive (and common) uses of the term, it's initial definition uses universe in a more inclusive way than we might expect. Not only is this jarring (using world and universe without meaning space), but it's potentially confusing - the world is the universe, but worlds are smaller than universes aren't they? BUT I can't think how to change it, as it is quite elegant in its way. Verloren
When I set up the redirect to Earth, I did so by looking at what links to this article (to get a sense of why it was on the "most wanted" list). Most of the articles are referring to World as a synonym for Earth, so I would argue that Verloren's point is valid. See what you think of the revised wording I propose – RobLa
-- Ruhrjung 14:12, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Even though this is ten years later, I think instead of the first line starting with the "philosophical" view that the World essentially equals the Universe, it should start with the fact that in common terminology, the World usually means the Earth, since we never refer to the ISS as part of the World nor do we say that a future Mars colony would be part of the World. In fact, although it isn't very philosophical, the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is a popular book that, although fiction, talks about Martians (from "their World") invading Earth "our World"). I just think that Earth is so central to what being human is that we can't ever refer to any other external colony as part of it; part of humanity, yes, part of civilization, yes, but not part of the one and only World. Tolkien5 ( talk) 01:57, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
I believe that this article could greatly benefit from some careful editing. As an example, the part about the First, Second and Third world contains a number of questionble assertions. The "First World" to me is not and has never been synonymous with the US and its allies. The most common descriptor would be "high-income industrialised countries" or simply OECD members. That would allow for deletion of the rather strange references to Austria, Switzerland and Sweden, which have unquestionably always been part of the First world irrespective of their neutrality. Argasp 20:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I think the references to the First, Second and Third worlds were rightfully removed, the goal of this article should be to be relatively clear and concise about the World, and to leave the details to the page about the Earth or link off, but not too often. Tolkien5 ( talk) 02:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
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Can you please replace the image ColoredBlankMap-World-10E.svg with Map of the world by the US Gov as of 2016.svg because the latter is more detailed with names of countries, cities, oceans, seas, and lakes? 2601:183:101:58D0:18FC:D40B:59CA:469B ( talk) 00:07, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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The World is Purple with Green people and dogs on it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.170.90.130 ( talk) 13:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
THE WORLD IS FLAT YOU PEOPLE ARE WRONG THE PICTURES FROM SPACE ARE JUST EDITED TO FOOL YOU ALL! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.238.26.112 ( talk) 19:25, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
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God created the earth 2606:A000:7A87:FF00:3987:6FB8:6448:B221 ( talk) 00:57, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
destroy all humans — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1o1 MAN ( talk • contribs) 08:47, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Just a note to say that my recent edit to this page should have the summary "less subjective word". Something went wrong and the summary was cut off at the meaningless "les".-- Lemuellio ( talk) 09:39, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Dear User:Stntinoo, could you please provide justification for your 2 recent reverts? Reverting good faith edits without an explanation is a bad practice. The edits you reverted have summaries that explain why I did them, so it might be helpful to refer in your explanation to these points. Regards, -- Phlsph7 ( talk) 00:00, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
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Just like in the Portuguese Wikipedia, the article "World" redirects to "Earth". Could this be possible in the English wiki?
We definitely need to add reference to holon which goes more in depth about paradox of many worlds - we could say this is a concept dedicated to this paradox. Best description I could find on the internet is here https://www.integralworld.net/kofman.html.
(moved here from User talk:Phlsph7)
Hi, in the page, some words and the way sentences are expressed are somewhat non-neutral or too vague for me, so I want to change a bit. I may make changes to the rest of the page, of course there may be something done wrong, I hope you can point it out and we can talk about them. I'm not sure what "simple" in the sense means or if the word is needed there. I changed to "because" as is more direct than "since", attributing the conclusion to be specifically from that who make the claim, while the word since sounds like personal conclusion. The word "some" is used in a sentence instead of "others" which seems to be applying to all the others. TiniLith ( talk) 11:54, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
The more general a concept is, the bigger its extension. Different fields associate different concepts with the term "world". These concepts are discussed in detail in the section "Conceptions". The one associated with the biggest extension is the one that covers "the totality of entities". This contrasts, for example, with other uses, as in the "the external world" in the philosophy of mind or the "world of music", which use the term "world" in a less general sense. Please familiarize yourself with WP:NPOV, the meanings of these terms, and the content of the article. Phlsph7 ( talk) 06:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
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Can a hatnote explicitly pointing to Earth be added? In colloquial English, "world" quite often refers specifically to the planet Earth. 217.180.228.188 ( talk) 02:12, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Should WP:REFERS apply here? TenToe ( talk) 19:59, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
I am a Umnugovi province . Let me ask you guys .Let's hear what you all think about Govi. In my opinoin my country has a lot of natural resources , a large area a numbers has decreased and a lot of endangered animals. However , there is still a priorty for us children to change their attitude towards laerning. Among them- due to the large number of mining companies opening and increasing the number of natural resource extraction companies due to the lack restoration work the balance of nature is disturbed . For example - Rainfall will desrease desertification will increase and natural warming will occur. plants and animals migrate ,die and perish. Lack of pastures etc.
Herders are facing a lot of probems . Due to desertification , people are selling their livestock and dying , and our people are moving to the capital city .
How lucky it is for a Mongolain herdman to herd five - headed cattle . We eat our meat locally but those animals continue to disappear due to natural disasters .
Will animals continue to become rare because we neglect nature ? Think about it , will you just lose the natural resources of this vast plain moutains and rivers ?
Let everyone be aware and be kind to nature. Before it's too late protect the natural world , one tree for the sake of the future homeland 202.179.4.4 ( talk) 15:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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There are two figures given for the Earth's population - 7.442 Billion at the beginning of the article and 6.45 Billion in the table further down the article. Which is it? If the two figures are taken from different sources, can't we agree on one source - say a UN estimate? I know this is written further below, but I'd like to highlight this problem, as it is the most glaring insufficiency in the article. - Thucydides411 06:39, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
~perhaps the world population went down from the beginning to the end of writing the article... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.186.103.47 ( talk) 22:02, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Nice Kan199887 ( talk) 11:31, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
I think these posts can be removed. However it may be appropriate to include more information about "people" as the definition of this article claims to be: population, at least. I think the rest should stay on the page for "Earth". But more stats in general could be helpful to clarify what "the World" refers to: humanity on this planet (since there is only 'one' World). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tolkien5 ( talk • contribs) 01:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
The way I see it, we have a few choices on what should happen when you visit "World" in wikipedia, and up to this point, we seem to have attempted all of the choices at once. Here are the possibilities I can imagine:
Right now it is a disambiguation page in which all the possible meanings have begun to grow roots and turn into mini articles, and which deceptively introduces itself as an article about Earth. The article called "Earth" is the article about Earth, so if it is about Earth it is a redirect.
If, as RobLa suggests above, almost all links to World intend to refer to Earth, then it seems that that is the most common interpretation, and that there should be a separate disambiguation page for all the many other meanings of World. Right now I'm going to do the easiest part, which is remove the silly part at top which tells you something you can prove wrong within seconds of visiting the page, that this article is about the Earth.
Cesoid 01:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't know Old English terribly well, but it sounds odd that a translation of the original meaning of "world" would include an "of" which indicates some level of posessessive-relationship between "age" and "man". Shouldn't it be simply "man age"? The term "Age of Man" has a somewhat different connotation than a simple compound term in modern English, and especially when capitalized. Does anyone know enough about Old English to comment on this?
Peter Isotalo 13:51, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion around physical vs political geography. Is there an analogy with country which can denote both a geographical area and a political/social grouping of people? I'm looking for something more social or political, concerning breadth of community. Thus eg United Nations denotes a world organisation which includes all nation states. Also any sense of community which exists beyond a given boundary eg leaving the family and going out into the world. I'm not sure if this meaning is covered here, or belongs elsewhere. I've also been looking at World (of Humans).-- Mindmass 19:35, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, I would really love to know what dictionaries you found that gave you werr-eld as the roots for english word 'world!' Certainly I do not find this in Webster - and all my knowledge of germanic languages leads me to believe that the word 'world' is much older than the Old English roots which you postulate here. More likely the word 'world' comes from a single root, seeing how widely spread the said root is among germanic-speaking countries: Dutch = wereld, German = Welt, Frisian = wrâld Swedish = värld, and so forth. However, the first root you postulate here is 'Wer,' which is old english and more likely came from one of the Gaelic languages' words for a 'man' or 'person.' I would like to call into question the accuracy of your etymology here, and note that there appear to be other pages with similar views which are linked here - Wight is the first one i've noticed, perhaps there are others. I hope this gets some discussion going, so hopefully we can modify or strike these fancied etymologies from the Wiki article. Thanks. Mo fìor ghaol 02:24, 15 December 2005
Wer-eld as age or life of man seems questionable as it could just as eaily translate to old man. Symmetric Chaos 12:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've posted on the village pump requesting assistance here. Lets see if we can get more people into this discussion and work out a consensus on the best way to deal with the article, the name of the secondary and other ways to deal with any issues. exolon 12:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I have added proctection to this article because there has been a lot of vandalism lately, and it can't continuing. ImperialAssassin 23:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Time again to add semi-protection for a little while? The vandalism is coming often, and pretty exclusively from anonymous IPs. Fractalchez 21:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Uh huh, I agree, I went to it to get some information just now and it is still vandalised (has been for some time now, but I am not knowledgeable in Wikipedia enough to know how to revert changes..)
The percentage in the population table does not make sense, can anyone explain what does that represent? -- Cyktsui 03:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm new to editing so please excuse any mistakes... The table states that the world population is ~6450M, Africa-Eurasia is listed as taking up about 84% of that, then Africa and Eurasia are listed seperately, meaning the %ages add up to more than 100%... incredibly confusing. Seems to me it would be better to list world total, then a sequence of %ages that add up to 100 (Allowing for some rounding error) - ie not list Africa-Eurasia seperately. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Basiclife 16:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Where is the Shouther Cone?
wow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.223.114 ( talk) 11:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cone
If, as the article states: "The world is a proper noun", shouldn't it be capitalized as such? – pd_THOR | =/\= | 04:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the "Physical characteristics" part be moved into the Earth article? As this article states, "world" doesn't always mean Earth but "Earth" always means Earth.
Also, does the "Human population" part belong in the "Physical charatceristics" section? – Alensha talk 18:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Agree, there's more to the world than earth. It should rather, like world development start with the most general usage, and continue to "details", like Humanity. Mikael Häggström ( talk) 10:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I'm not sure about this, but shouldn't the etymology be covered in wiktionary? J Hill 22:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
most wikipedian articles have an etymology section so I think it is appropriate that etymology be part of this article, after all we have the ability to deliver valuable information through that section. Ridoco234 ( talk) 01:36, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
As soon as I figure out how... which I hope will be soon enough, I'm going to reduce this article to bare bones! Admit, it is exactly the kind of article that wikipedia gets made fun of for, neither here nor there, contains almost no pulp, it is misleading (there really is nothing here about what "the world" or "a world" is) and just for the sake of filling a page on a fundamental word it's fleshed with vague references to human activities or rather things that the word "world" can be used as an adjective before. If anyone likes this page let them create a "World (adjective)" page. The world is a planet, or slightly more figuratively, "the vast array of earthly phenomena known to man as a whole". It looks silly to write about it as a country. grendel's mother 08:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Revamped, as promised (see my comments in this discussion above). The rest of the article has been moved to "world (adjective)". As further evidence of what I wrote above please note that of all the languages this article appears in English is the only one to take the subject beyond the noun definition. I plan to use the Czech page as a reference for fleshing this one out sometime soon, and to put more work into world (adjective). Please do not revert the page without dealing specifically with my points above. Best, grendel's mother 11:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
This article needs to take on a format that defines world, it's cultures, its religions, demographics etc. much like the CIA world factobook article on the subject redoing the entire article may be necessary as this article does not focus as it should on humans, the world is the human layer of the earth. Please feedback this article needs to be revised and realized to its true potential. Ridoco234 ( talk) 22:57, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The table data gives area as 57,506,055 sq miles. I suspect this is land area. Should we give land area, ocean area and total area? crandles ( talk) 10:38, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
The article should explain the meaning of "world" as a noun in its own right. Instead, it keeps degenerating into a list of things that are prefixed with "world-", i.e. world population, world economy, world gross product, world history, world government, world war, etc. etc. Of course all these terms make use of the concept "world", but listing them does nothing for this article.
The only sections that seem strictly on topic are "etymology and usage" and "philosophy".
I can only suspect that the creation of World (adjective) was somehow triggered by an awareness of this problem, but as it stands it just duplicates it instead of contributing to a solution. -- dab (𒁳) 11:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Another time the sentence:
It is false. See the discussion of the Timaeus about only one world. The Greek word for "world", κόσμος, "kósmos", do not appear in that text of the Republic. "Intelligible world", "world of the ideas", etc., are from Philo and the Neoplatonics, and from these are used in bad translations and mistaken interpretations.
-- Gonzalcg ( talk) 02:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The definition given to "world" is "the planet Earth and all life on it". Does that mean astronauts living in the ISS are literally "out of this world"? OlJa 11:14, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
There's a problem with the first line of this. Strictly speaking world refers to a planet, most often the earth. While the article does a good job of demonstrating the more inclusive (and common) uses of the term, it's initial definition uses universe in a more inclusive way than we might expect. Not only is this jarring (using world and universe without meaning space), but it's potentially confusing - the world is the universe, but worlds are smaller than universes aren't they? BUT I can't think how to change it, as it is quite elegant in its way. Verloren
When I set up the redirect to Earth, I did so by looking at what links to this article (to get a sense of why it was on the "most wanted" list). Most of the articles are referring to World as a synonym for Earth, so I would argue that Verloren's point is valid. See what you think of the revised wording I propose – RobLa
-- Ruhrjung 14:12, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Even though this is ten years later, I think instead of the first line starting with the "philosophical" view that the World essentially equals the Universe, it should start with the fact that in common terminology, the World usually means the Earth, since we never refer to the ISS as part of the World nor do we say that a future Mars colony would be part of the World. In fact, although it isn't very philosophical, the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is a popular book that, although fiction, talks about Martians (from "their World") invading Earth "our World"). I just think that Earth is so central to what being human is that we can't ever refer to any other external colony as part of it; part of humanity, yes, part of civilization, yes, but not part of the one and only World. Tolkien5 ( talk) 01:57, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
I believe that this article could greatly benefit from some careful editing. As an example, the part about the First, Second and Third world contains a number of questionble assertions. The "First World" to me is not and has never been synonymous with the US and its allies. The most common descriptor would be "high-income industrialised countries" or simply OECD members. That would allow for deletion of the rather strange references to Austria, Switzerland and Sweden, which have unquestionably always been part of the First world irrespective of their neutrality. Argasp 20:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I think the references to the First, Second and Third worlds were rightfully removed, the goal of this article should be to be relatively clear and concise about the World, and to leave the details to the page about the Earth or link off, but not too often. Tolkien5 ( talk) 02:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
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Can you please replace the image ColoredBlankMap-World-10E.svg with Map of the world by the US Gov as of 2016.svg because the latter is more detailed with names of countries, cities, oceans, seas, and lakes? 2601:183:101:58D0:18FC:D40B:59CA:469B ( talk) 00:07, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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The World is Purple with Green people and dogs on it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.170.90.130 ( talk) 13:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
THE WORLD IS FLAT YOU PEOPLE ARE WRONG THE PICTURES FROM SPACE ARE JUST EDITED TO FOOL YOU ALL! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.238.26.112 ( talk) 19:25, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
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God created the earth 2606:A000:7A87:FF00:3987:6FB8:6448:B221 ( talk) 00:57, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
destroy all humans — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1o1 MAN ( talk • contribs) 08:47, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Just a note to say that my recent edit to this page should have the summary "less subjective word". Something went wrong and the summary was cut off at the meaningless "les".-- Lemuellio ( talk) 09:39, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Dear User:Stntinoo, could you please provide justification for your 2 recent reverts? Reverting good faith edits without an explanation is a bad practice. The edits you reverted have summaries that explain why I did them, so it might be helpful to refer in your explanation to these points. Regards, -- Phlsph7 ( talk) 00:00, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
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37.200.253.8 ( talk) 04:22, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Just like in the Portuguese Wikipedia, the article "World" redirects to "Earth". Could this be possible in the English wiki?
We definitely need to add reference to holon which goes more in depth about paradox of many worlds - we could say this is a concept dedicated to this paradox. Best description I could find on the internet is here https://www.integralworld.net/kofman.html.
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Hi, in the page, some words and the way sentences are expressed are somewhat non-neutral or too vague for me, so I want to change a bit. I may make changes to the rest of the page, of course there may be something done wrong, I hope you can point it out and we can talk about them. I'm not sure what "simple" in the sense means or if the word is needed there. I changed to "because" as is more direct than "since", attributing the conclusion to be specifically from that who make the claim, while the word since sounds like personal conclusion. The word "some" is used in a sentence instead of "others" which seems to be applying to all the others. TiniLith ( talk) 11:54, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
The more general a concept is, the bigger its extension. Different fields associate different concepts with the term "world". These concepts are discussed in detail in the section "Conceptions". The one associated with the biggest extension is the one that covers "the totality of entities". This contrasts, for example, with other uses, as in the "the external world" in the philosophy of mind or the "world of music", which use the term "world" in a less general sense. Please familiarize yourself with WP:NPOV, the meanings of these terms, and the content of the article. Phlsph7 ( talk) 06:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
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Can a hatnote explicitly pointing to Earth be added? In colloquial English, "world" quite often refers specifically to the planet Earth. 217.180.228.188 ( talk) 02:12, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Should WP:REFERS apply here? TenToe ( talk) 19:59, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
I am a Umnugovi province . Let me ask you guys .Let's hear what you all think about Govi. In my opinoin my country has a lot of natural resources , a large area a numbers has decreased and a lot of endangered animals. However , there is still a priorty for us children to change their attitude towards laerning. Among them- due to the large number of mining companies opening and increasing the number of natural resource extraction companies due to the lack restoration work the balance of nature is disturbed . For example - Rainfall will desrease desertification will increase and natural warming will occur. plants and animals migrate ,die and perish. Lack of pastures etc.
Herders are facing a lot of probems . Due to desertification , people are selling their livestock and dying , and our people are moving to the capital city .
How lucky it is for a Mongolain herdman to herd five - headed cattle . We eat our meat locally but those animals continue to disappear due to natural disasters .
Will animals continue to become rare because we neglect nature ? Think about it , will you just lose the natural resources of this vast plain moutains and rivers ?
Let everyone be aware and be kind to nature. Before it's too late protect the natural world , one tree for the sake of the future homeland 202.179.4.4 ( talk) 15:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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