Talk:Manifesto

message: Where did the word come from?
:Manifesto is what linguists call a neoclassical word. Some pseudointellectual in a post-classical era wanted to come up with an important-sounding word for his list of alleged truisms, and so used the Latin word Manifestus, meaning "clearly evident", but changed the ending slightly. --Kaz 19:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of Manifesto 

message: Wasn't Kascinzky's self-defense published in Hustler called "The Unabomber Manifesto"?  It may be considered the manifesto of the Neo-Luddite or anti-technological movement...--Rockero 03:08, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The manifesto was published in the The Washington Post and in the The New York Times. Check out the Unabomber article. You will find the references there. Maziotis (talk) 10:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unabomber

message: I removed this line:
:*The Workers Rights Manifesto
It's an external link (no Wiki article) and doesn't appear to have been published anywhere besides the site to which the EL points. It doesn't appear to be notable enough for inclusion.--Rockero 21:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Workers' Rights Manifesto

message: ~~ Simba 01:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright infringement. 

message: "What is property" is listed as being published in 1850, whereas on the dedicated page for this work it is noted that it was published in 1840. I do not know which of these is the correct date, but if someone does, feel free to adjust whichever page is incorrect.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.161.177.101 (talk) 13:44, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date inconsistency 

message: the page seems to be missing manifesto's that are key to some of histories famous revolutions. Certainly the October Manifesto of 1905 in Russia is an example, Nicholas saved his reign (for the time being) by his issueing it. Although maybe not strictly manifestos- the National assemblies Declaration of the rights of man and Castro's "history will absolve me" speech are two examples of documents that would define the respective revolutionary movements cause.139.168.204.222 (talk) 08:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revolution Manifestos 

message: I would argue that, though it mentions cyborgs and technology, the Cyborg Manifesto is more of a political, feminist, socialist document rather than a technological one. I think it should be moved to the political column. Gilly027 (talk) 17:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Cyborg Manifesto 

message: Given that half of this article is a list of manifestos, I think it would make sense to split this article into two. The article that discusses manifestos as a genre/type of document would be in this page, and the list of manifestos would be in the other. - - mathmitch7 (talk/contribs) 18:57, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split to [[List of manifestos]] 

message: A manifesto usually "accepts a previously published opinion or public consensus or promotes a new idea"
Hmm. Since that is true of much of everything ever written, can't that part of the sentence be excised?
Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host  (talk) 19:51, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we make better or improve the lead? 

message: The first paragraph states "Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds." and yet there
religious manifestoes which are not creeds at all, since they relate to action or something other than beliefs, may
be in part artistic or political as part of their intention. An example may be found here, [Manifesto Satanika http://avidyana.org/Manifesto_Satanika]. Please consider adding that category and links to such manifestos.-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 02:34, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious Manifestos That Are Not Creeds 

message: Please tell me some election manifesto 103.147.216.85 (talk) 04:18, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  My election manifesto 

message: Although this article has been present since 2001 (!), it has not developed past a stub consisting of a definition in the lead, and the etymology section. The only other content is the  section, which until today, was an inappropriate WP:EXAMPLEFARM that constituted half the article; other than the examples, and the dictionary-like stuff, there was no actual encyclopedic content about manifestos. If there's nothing more that can be said about manifestos generally than that, then that would make it subject to transwikification to Wiktionary, per WP:NOTDICT. 
Another approach, would be to decide that actually this is a list article, and then as many examples as desired could be added to it, along with a brief lead describing manifestos, sort of the way the lead is now. The etymology section would not be appropriate in that scenario, and would have to be dropped; but a link to Wiktionary could be included, and any missing etymological information could be moved there.
I can see going either way: either towards:
# an expanded, encyclopedic article about manifestos, generally — expand the body a lot, and limit the examples; or
# a list article, renamed to "List of manifestos" —  remove #Etymology, add lots more examples,
but it can't be both at the same time. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:34, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Just realized that User:mathmitch7 already raised a similar point about making it into a list article years ago. I think he was right then, and he probably still is right now, unless we go for #1 above. Mathglot (talk) 22:32, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfocused