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Sourcing concerns

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The article is significantly based on sources that fail to meet reliably sourced criteria. Graywalls (talk) 05:07, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Graywalls: Hey, I've rewritten the article based on more reliable sources. Can you give it a look over and let me know what you think? Cheers. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:18, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Some sources, like those "submitted by..." on Libcom still don't live up to WP:RS. I didn't comb through each source just yet, but additional issue that is common with Libcom is copyright violation. Graywalls (talk) 16:30, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ah right, you're talking about that list of federations at the end there? That's the one part of the article I didn't change. I can remove if you think it doesn't live up to RS. (Although I think the Freedom News article may count as RS? Not sure) -- Grnrchst (talk) 16:53, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Graywalls: On second thought, I went ahead and just removed the list. It kinda looked like an advertisement anyway. -- Grnrchst (talk) 21:14, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 June 2025

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Synthesis anarchism → Anarchist synthesis – When I hastily rewrote this article a couple years ago to deal with the previous version's bad sourcing (see talk page discussion with Graywalls), I didn't think to check at the time if the article's title had basis in reliable sources.

I just now checked for it in the cited sources in this article, but none of them use the term "synthesis anarchism". Skirda 2002 talks about the "Anarchist Synthesis" (also shortened to simply "the Synthesis"), which was the title of Faure's original article on the matter. He also uses the term "synthesist" to refer to proponents of it. van der Walt and Schmidt also mention "the Synthesis" and use the term "synthesist". Avrich and Malet make no reference to any "synthesis", although their description of a "united anarchism" is connected to the anarchist synthesis by Skirda (and later by Zoe Baker). None of the primary sources listed in the further reading use "synthesis anarchism" either; all of them refer to the "anarchist synthesis" (or simply "the synthesis").

I searched for the term on Google Scholar, but the only cases of "synthesis anarchism" I could find from before this article was created in August 2010 were false positives (i.e. one sentence ending with "synthesis" and another beginning with "anarchism"). It seems that, a few years after this article was first created, authors started picking up the term. In contrast, I found 36 results for the use of "synthesist" in conjunction with anarchism, and 10 results for "Anarchist Synthesis", although this included a couple false positives. I was also able to find only one reference to "synthesism" in a 2008 article by David Berry.

Jeff Shantz used the term "synthesist anarchism" in his April 2010 entry on the "Anarchist Synthesis" in the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, but it appears that he originated this variant, as I can find no earlier references to "synthesist anarchism". It also seems that this did not catch on widely after that, with only 3 references to "synthesist anarchism" since 2010 (one of which is another work by Shantz).

When coming across cases of suspected citogenesis, I've started checking Zoe Baker's book Means and Ends, as I know Baker has a rigorous approach to examining primary sources rather than just assuming Wikipedia terminology is correct. Sure enough, she uses the term "anarchist synthesis" and refers to its proponents as "synthesists" but never once uses the term "synthesis anarchism".

As it appears that the terminology "synthesis anarchism" originated on Wikipedia in 2010, and as it seems clear to me that the common name for this tendency since the very beginning was the "anarchist synthesis", I'm requesting we move the article to reflect that. Grnrchst (talk) 11:53, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]