Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Synthetic terrorism


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The result of the debate was delete. W.marsh 01:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Synthetic terrorism
This looks like a neologism for staged terrorist incidents to serve propaganda goals of whatever government is in charge. The phrase clocks up some 200 unique ghits and appears as the title of one book; apart from that it mostly appears in blogs citing it.

Once the phrase has caught on we can keep it, but delete for now. Dr Zak 18:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete agree the examples on the page are very tenuous, we have plenty of other words to cover them!! Also there is very little in the way of sourcing so I don't think it is widely enough used yet -- Tmorton166 (Errant Emote) talk 18:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. ikh (talk) 18:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable concept: as stated above, the examples given don't really fit the concept and the article has no sources that suggest the concept is notable --Ed (Edgar181) 19:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete a) neologism and b) all terrorism is synthetic, I don't know of any naturally occurring politics other than those we make. Further, I concur with the above, bring back if adopted. Jammo (SM247) 23:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Although it was cleaned up a bit after it started with some ludicrous claims (such as that all wars started with synthetic terrorism), I don't think it's a notable enough concept. Bring back if it comes into wide use  --Varco 20:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge as a minor) side mention under Terrorism, then bring back if adopted. Demf 12:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom -- MrDolomite 21:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom -- Docgravel 03:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Do not delete -- just historical information. Atomist


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.