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nos_mercenary:
I have found a very good article that theorizes quite a bit about the shivans.  i suggest we put it into the Shivan part of the wiki, but i do not know where the author is and thus can't get his permission.  help? (and the article is in general freespace, also title the shivan manifesto.  very long)

karajorma:
The Shivan manifesto gets discussed all the time but it's worth remembering that it is just one persons interpretation of the events of FS1 and FS2. It's not in any way canon and several people (myself included) disagree with several of the central arguments.

aldo_14:
What kara said; the Shivan Manifesto is basically speculation, so it's no more valid as canon than, say, Inferno or the Capellan BBQ theory.  IIRC it has a number of holes in the logic, too, and relies a lot on supposition.

  I'd recommend against putting any fanon type stuff of this ilk in the wiki, as it's liable to being misinterpreted as canon, and it also risks people not developing their own ideas.  At most, we should put external links to discussion thread about this and other theories, but I think highlighting one theory alone - be it the SM or otherwise - is somewhat unfair to everyone with their own theories.  IMO, the only reason the SM is seemingly so popular in this regard (vis-a-vis other theories) is because a) it is quite long and b) most campaigns can't, don't or won't publish their own ideas for obvious reasons.

NGTM-1R:
IMO, if somebody were to collect all the theories and write them up, it wouldn't be particularly bad to place them in a marked "fanon" section.

karajorma:
I don't object to it being in a completely seperate section of the wiki. I wouldn't want it to be in the same articles as the canon stuff though,

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