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I think the fiber itself is called "Manila hemp." —seav
This article needs work. It states that manila is not hemp and then that it was banned with hemp. It gives no history or use. The 3rd paragraph looks like it was copied from the hemp page and not adapted for this one. --Karuna8 02:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)Reply
The article should be deleted in favour of the article on Abaca - abaca is the same fibre, and the article on abaca is more comprehensive. Manila is a rather outdated name, and it never has been hemp. Obviously there should be an appropriate redirect. Natural fibre (talk) 16:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
Also the statement that it is mostly used to make rope is not correct - this was the case 50 years ago, but now most of this fibre is pulped, a small (rather variable) quantity is used for rope, mainly for use by the US navy. Natural fibre (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
This article was referenced in the Veronica Mars episode that aired on January 23, 2007. Veronica and her dad wonder what "manila" is as they are filing papers. A few seconds later, Veronica says "according to Wikipedia ..." and then continues to quote this articles information about what manila paper is. -- User:Konky2000
Two articles on the same topic; no opinion on which title should be used fro the resulting page – abacá is older, Manila hempisEnglish Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:06, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
I went ahead and merged it. There's nothing in this article really that needed to be merged anyway. So it's fairly uncontroversial. Everything was a duplicate. The topic is the same thing. I just migrated the sources and tweaked the wording in the lead in Abaca.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 15:52, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply