appeal
Enable an agent to recognise an appeal as a communicated request for support or action, assess its credibility and current status, and determine how it may be answered or circulated.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
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Researched by: Codex
Purpose and description
Enable an agent to recognise an appeal as a communicated request for support or action, assess its credibility and current status, and determine how it may be answered or circulated.
An appeal is a communicative work addressed to an audience that requests help, support or action and presents reasons for responding.
It can be Extract the requested response, beneficiary, audience and deadline while preserving ambiguity.; Check consequential claims and flag missing or conflicting support.; Compare circulating versions for altered requests, payment destinations or deadlines.; Locate and assess the issuer's stated response route before helping a user act.; Summarise or translate the appeal while preserving its conditions and attribution.; Identify expired, withdrawn or superseded appeals before recommending further circulation..
Distinguishing features
A recipient can identify a response being sought, such as donating, signing, volunteering or supplying information; merely describing a need does not establish an appeal.
The communication connects its requested response to a need, cause or concern, although whether commercial solicitations qualify remains unresolved.
The appeal is a communicative work that may recur across letters, recordings and web pages; a carrier or individual copy is not automatically a separate appeal.
An appeal may belong to a campaign, but its requested response and message can be identified independently of the campaign's wider activities.
A request to a reviewing authority to overturn a decision requires disambiguation before this provisional media-oriented model is applied.
Scope
+ The appeal's stated need, intended audience and requested response
+ The issuer, represented beneficiaries and authority claimed to speak for them
+ Claims, evidence and persuasive framing within the appeal
+ Versions, translations and distribution manifestations of the appeal
+ Response routes, deadlines and communicated changes to the appeal's status
- Legal proceedings seeking review of a decision, pending confirmation of the registry sense
- Appeal as attractiveness or aesthetic preference
- The wider campaign or organisation that issues the appeal
- The underlying emergency, dispute or social condition
- Individual donations, payment processing and delivery of assistance
- General theories of persuasion and rhetorical appeals
Characteristics
- Requested response
- Donation; signature; volunteering; information; advocacy; other specified response; unclear Identifies the action the communication seeks and whether an agent can meaningfully help a recipient respond.
- Issuer and represented beneficiary
- Links to issuing parties, intended beneficiaries and evidence of representation Separates who makes the request from who is supposed to benefit.
- Intended audience
- Named recipients, audience groups or an unrestricted public Determines whether the recipient is addressed and which response conditions apply.
- Claim support
- Per claim: unchecked; supported; partly supported; disputed; contradicted; unresolved Keeps persuasive force separate from evidential support.
- Response window
- Not yet open; open; expired; withdrawn; closed; unknown, with any stated dates and time zone Prevents presenting an obsolete request as currently actionable.
- Requested target
- Optional stated amount and unit, such as currency, signatures, volunteers or items, with target period Makes the requested scale explicit without assuming every appeal has a numerical goal.
- Appeal version lineage
- Original, revision, translation, adaptation or reproduction linked to an identified appeal Supports comparison of changing claims, deadlines and response instructions.
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 5 bundles · 9 layers · 13 findings · 21 questions.
Need and requested response Connect the condition presented by the appeal to the response sought from its audience.
An agent must distinguish what the appeal says is needed from what it actually asks recipients to do.
Stated need
Identify the concern and intended benefit that motivate the request.
Need and beneficiary link
Record whose situation the appeal describes and how the requested response is supposed to help, treating this connection as the issuer's claim until checked.
- What need or concern does this appeal present, and who is said to benefit? definition
- What evidence supports the claimed connection between the requested response and the intended benefit? provenance
Response specification
Establish what a recipient would have to do to answer the appeal.
Requested action and conditions
Record the requested contribution or conduct, any target, and conditions such as eligibility, location or timing.
- What concrete response is requested, and which recipients are eligible or able to provide it? action
- Does the appeal specify an amount, quantity or deadline, and in what units or time zone? measurement
Voice and persuasion Assess who is speaking, whom they represent and how they argue for a response.
The credibility of an appeal depends on attribution and claim support, while its emotional framing can influence recipients independently of either.
Issuer and authority
Separate authorship, endorsement, publication and beneficiary representation.
Basis of representation
Record the parties behind the appeal and the evidence for any claim that they speak for its beneficiaries.
- Who authored, issued and endorsed the appeal, and where are those attributions documented? provenance
- What establishes permission or authority to speak for named beneficiaries or use their testimony? provenance
Claims and framing
Separate checkable assertions from values, testimony and emotional persuasion.
Grounds for responding
Identify the claims that materially support the request, including urgency, likely impact and any asserted consequences of inaction.
- Which claims about urgency, scale or expected impact have evidence that can be checked independently? provenance
- Which parts express values or emotional framing rather than factual claims, and does the appeal make that distinction clear? boundary
Appeal identity and circulation Track the appeal across revisions, languages, formats and channels.
An agent must recognise repeated publication of one appeal and detect changes that affect what recipients are being asked to believe or do.
Work and version boundaries
Distinguish the appeal from its campaign, expressions and individual copies.
Continuity of the request
Compare purpose, beneficiary and requested response to judge whether an item reproduces, revises or replaces an existing appeal.
- Is this a copy, translation, revision or new appeal, and what evidence establishes that relationship? boundary
- Have the beneficiary, requested action or central justification changed enough to require separate identification? boundary
Distribution integrity
Trace circulating copies to attributable versions and identify meaningful alterations.
Copy origin and permitted reuse
Record where a copy came from, whether its actionable details match an attributable version, and what permissions govern further distribution.
- Can this copy be traced to the issuer, and do its response destination and deadline match the issuer's version? provenance
- What permissions or restrictions apply to republishing, translating or adapting the appeal and its included images or testimony? action
Response and closure Determine whether and how the appeal remains actionable, and what is known about its completion.
A persuasive appeal can remain in circulation after its response route changes, its deadline passes or its stated need is met.
Response route
Assess the route through which a recipient is asked to contribute or participate.
Destination and commitment
Identify the receiving party and the practical commitments associated with answering the appeal.
- What evidence links the response form, contact address or payment destination to the appeal's issuer or authorised recipient? provenance
- What money, information, time or continuing commitment would a response require, and what user authorisation is needed before acting? action
Status and reported results
Track whether the request is still current and distinguish reported participation from demonstrated benefit.
Closure and outcome evidence
Record dated notices of extension, completion, withdrawal or replacement, together with the basis for any reported results.
- What dated evidence establishes whether this appeal is still open, closed, withdrawn or superseded? provenance
- Do reported results measure responses received, resources delivered or benefits achieved, and how were those measures obtained? measurement
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- No sense is recorded; the definition provisionally interprets appeal as a communicative work, consistent with the supplied domain and batch context.
- The registry's original description should be checked to exclude judicial review, attractiveness and rhetorical techniques as intended senses.
- The listed kinds overlap by purpose and are not a formal classification; no universal identifier scheme or appeal-specific standard is asserted.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of appeal this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Fundraising appeal
- Humanitarian appeal
- Public appeal for information
- Political appeal
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of appeal this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Soliciting donations for charitable work or emergency relief
- Requesting information about missing people or events
- Mobilising support for a cause
- Calling on institutions or individuals to take specified action
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of appeal this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Misleading claims about the need, beneficiary or intended use of contributions
- Impersonation of legitimate organisations or beneficiaries
- Emotional manipulation that obscures relevant facts
- Disclosure of sensitive information about people featured in the appeal
- An unclear request or response mechanism that prevents the audience from acting
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of appeal this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- petition - A petition formally requests action from an authority and may collect signatures; an appeal need not use either mechanism.
- advertisement - An advertisement promotes an offering or message through advertising channels; an appeal is defined by its request for help, support or action.
- open letter - An open letter is defined by public availability despite an identified addressee; it may contain an appeal but need not.
- judicial appeal - A judicial appeal seeks review of a decision through a legal procedure, rather than naming a general persuasive communication.
- appeal campaign - A campaign coordinates activities and potentially many messages; an individual appeal is a communicative work within or outside such a campaign.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of appeal this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Does the registry's source identify appeal as a public request, a legal appeal, a rhetorical technique or another sense?
- Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?
- Should this entry include private requests and commercial solicitations, or only appeals addressed to a public audience for a cause or need?
- What changes to the beneficiary, requested response or justification distinguish a new appeal from a revision of the same work?
- Which identifiers and work-expression-manifestation conventions are appropriate for appeals across letters, broadcasts, recordings and web publications?