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 :::Well, I certainly don't agree it is ""clearly"" undue - and clearly no one else saw it as clearly undue since we already discussed the amount of weight given twice and arrived at the length it was at.  Reliable sources have given the prophecy nonsense quite a lot of weight, as probably 40-50% of the news stories on the eclipse at least mentioned it.  Others devoted entire articles to it.  To see the pervasiveness of the phenomenon one only has to note that almost everyone was calling it a ""blood moon"", a strange term for an eclipse that was only rarely used in the past 
 :::I think the paragraph needs to do three things: say what the prophesy is, say it gained a lot of attention, and say few believed it.  The notability of the idea is not determined by how many people bought into it, but rather how much coverage reliable sources gave it. ' addition that said such proclamations are common provided good context, I think.  I suppose all that could be done with less words than before, but there isn't a WEIGHT issue here.  We've devoted barely any attention to the idea, and put what little text we did give it dead last.  "