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Our article on Earth is a featured article. As of this writing, it has a length of 8267 words, 52263 characters. If an article is longer than the article about the planet we all live on, which in theory includes in its scope at least 90% of the encyclopedia's articles, there's a good chance that article is too long and/or is not sufficiently adhering to Summary style.