Talk:Legacy

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Legacy as money

I think there is a kind of "legacy" that refers to an amount of money of some sort. This type of legacy is not included here and needs to be added.

Sounds like the only entry under "LAW": Legacy, a gift given to someone after death through a Will (law). --Orange Mike 21:29, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

There is nothing about Legacy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.111.207 (talk) 10:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Other possible meaning

Can't Legacy also be used like descendant? Or am I confusing ti with something else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.147.16.141 (talk) 23:56, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Can I create a page for the Legacy Stable in the WWE? Chuff Jr. (talk) 03:00, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Legacy

What is a legacy is planting seeds in a garden you’ll never get to see 109.240.31.202 (talk) 12:56, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Potential sources

@Bkonrad: I've found some sources which discuss the idea of legacy generally:

• Hunter, Elizabeth G.; Rowles, Graham D. (2005). "Leaving a legacy: Toward a typology". Journal of Aging Studies. 19 (3): 327–347. doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2004.08.002. ISSN 0890-4065.
• Radu-Lefebvre, Miruna; Davis, James H.; Gartner, William B. (2024). "Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda". Family Business Review. 37 (1): 18–59. doi:10.1177/08944865231224506. ISSN 0894-4865.
• Feireiss, Lukas (2018). Legacy: Generations of Creatives in Dialogue. Frame Publishers. ISBN 978-94-92311-30-6.
• Beasley, Chris; Papadelos, Pam (2023-08-14). Living Legacies of Social Injustice: Power, Time and Social Change. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-92028-4.
• "Critically Thinking About Legacy and the Meaning of Life | Psychology Today". www.psychologytoday.com. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
• Farrall, Stephen; Hay, Colin; Gray, Emily (2020-03-28). Exploring Political Legacies. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-37006-0.

Therefore I think the concept of legacy itself is viable as a Wikipedia article. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:52, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps. You can start at Draft:Legacy and if there is something coherent, it might be worth considering to replace the disambiguation page. But the sources you link to themselves cover a wide range of different conceptions of legacy. I don't quite see how a single article would coherently address these diverse topics how placing such a general article in place of the disambiguation page would be an improvement for readers. older ≠ wiser 15:19, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it not the nature of most primary topics to have a wide range of different conceptions? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 15:20, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

No, I'd say any good article about a topic has a reasonably clearly defined scope, not just a collection of glorified dictionary definitions about topics that only happen to use the same word in different senses. Again, it might perhaps be possible to write a good article about the general concept of legacy, but I'd have to see something tangible before determining whether it would be better for readers as a primary topic than a simple disambiguation page. older ≠ wiser 15:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)