Talk:Imagined community

message: The article states the following: Anthony Smith stands that even when nations are the product of modernity, it is possible to find ethnic elements that survive in modern nations. Ethnic groups are different to nations.
One can certanly define ethnic identity as cultural identity, as opposed to national identity that is essentially political identity. However, I am still not clear whether or not Anderson considers ethnic groups to be imagined communities as well? After all, even the smallest ethnic group will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion (to paraphrase Anderson). Using the same analogy, could one argue that religious communities are also imagined communities - after all, they are often much larger than national communities? If we go with this line of thinking further, could one argue that any kind of human community that is larger than the number of people you can personally know is in fact an imagined community? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.46.5.62 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: This page seems to be Anderson-centric. For a topic to be worthy of a Wikipedia entry it needs to be established and have more than one source. When I've got the time I'll read up on the documents around the topic and add citations from other authors. I ask others interested in the topic to do the same as imagined communities go further than nationhood as they came up in the media cultures course on my first degree with regards to television soaps where the viewers imagine the community depicted in the programme --Jonathan Bishop (talk) 12:59, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broadening the subject 

message: Since the first sentence of the article reads "The imagined community is...", and since readers are more likely to search for "community" than "communities", would it not make more sense to move this article to "Imagined community"?  134.226.252.160 (talk) 15:39, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "Imagined community" 

message: The unsung hero who wrote the bulk of this article ought to be applauded by the Wikipedia community, it's a very concise summary of an important book.  Proposals such as "Move to Imagined community" and "Broadening the subject.  This page seems to be Anderson-centric" are laughable in this context.  You might as well criticise the Pride & Prejudice page for being Austen-centric.  Don't touch the article unless you know the book.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JO 24 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please don't mess with this article unless you have read Benedict Anderson's book 

message: Hello. The article talks about a very specific use of the term, while it is now broadly used to describe various communities of interest. It seems like adding disambiguation, like "Imagined community (nationalism)" would make it clearer.69.119.232.155 (talk) 17:24, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

message: I am moving this here, as it seems only slightly relevant - and a violation of WP:QUOTEFARM. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:56, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long quote, mostly off topic 

message: I have split this article into two, partially - but not fully  - overlapping topics. The concept of imagined communities is broader than the book that introduced it. To some degree, of course, there is an overlap, but the book article should focus on the concepts introduced in the book only, its reception, reviews of, etc. This article can (and does) go beyond it, to discuss (for example), how other scholars have used this concept. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imagined communities vs [[Imagined Communities]] 

message: Seeing as this is almost entirely a paean to Benedict Anderson, and as well barely more than a stub, I don't see where this deserves to stand alone rather than simply being rolled back into Benedict Anderson#Imagined Communities.
While Anderson originated the term, reading this article tells me that in the subsequent 36+ years the concept hasn't had any impact past a few acolytes of Anderson. Before editing, I will take a swat at pruning the cheerleading, and see what remains.Weeb Dingle (talk) 18:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  a dubious article