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Welcome to the talk space of the Anarchism WikiProject. This area serves as a noticeboard for discussions, notices, and requests pertaining to Wikipedia's coverage of anarchist philosophy, practice, culture, and history.
Here is the full list of anarchism articles in need of cleanup. Below is a subset for focus during the cleanup drive. Strike out completed items with {{
s}} and we'll add more sections as we go.
finished
Biographies of living persons (10)
These articles have any cleanup tag but are high priority because we hold
biographies on living people to a higher standard
Search for the passages tagged with {{
citation needed}} and either (a) add a source and remove the tag, or (b) remove the passage and the tag if it cannot be verified
Search for the passages tagged with {{
verify source}} or {{
vn}}, which indicate that another editor has requested that our article content is verifiable in the citation. If verified, say so in your edit summary and remove the tag. If not verified, either bring the discrepancy to the talk page or resolve the discrepancy yourself by rephrasing or removing content.
Our
cleanup backlog has grown since
the last drive, so thought we could kickoff another push for the month of May. There are currently 228 articles tagged in total with 386 tagged issues. Can we get it down to zero?
For a place to start, I thought biographies of living people (BLPs) and articles in need of citations would be good. To cross off finished items from the list, there is
a link above to edit the section (so as not to bother watchers of this page). Open to any other ideas here as well to make it interesting. Perhaps we should set up a mailing list for editors who have participated in the project previously?
If this is your first time participating in a cleanup drive on Wikipedia, (1) you're invited to
be bold and try your best to resolve cleanup issues, and (2) if you have any questions or need a hand, please respond below and someone will help! czar14:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Oof, there is a lot of work to do on some of these articles. Some should be simple enough to fix but damn, others have much deeper problems that I'm not sure simply addressing the CN tags will solve. --
Grnrchst (
talk)
09:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Addressing the {{
citation needed}} tags is enough to remove it from this list but if an article needs more support, feel free to bring it to discussion so others can chip in too. czar03:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Well, we can't fix everything all at once. It's a work in progress. As much as I'd like to fix everything everywhere, as long as we don't have falsehoods or policy violations hanging around... it's ok that some things are a bit crap. --
asilvering (
talk)
03:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Czar: Hey, we seem to have gone way over the limit of templates on one page, which I think has come down to both the cleanup drive transclusion and the recent literature transclusion having introduced a lot more than the page can handle. I manually archived a section and removed a bunch of templates from another, but this problem still persists. I think we may need to consider that striking every resolved entry, rather than simply removing it from the list, is causing problems of its own. --
Grnrchst (
talk)
08:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Ok no, after doing a bunch of archivals and changes, then just fiddling around with removing random hings, I identified the newly-added "Recent stubs" template as the source of the problem. I have temporarily removed it, just so the entire page doesn't break. We need to figure out what went wrong with it before we add it back in. --
Grnrchst (
talk)
09:07, 15 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Ooh we're close to finishing this one off! Don't know how much time I can spend on this area this month, as my attentions are focused on the
Women in Green edit-a-thon, but I hope we'll be able to address these last few before the end of the unsourced statements drive. :) --
Grnrchst (
talk)
09:31, 6 June 2024 (UTC)reply
No problem, I just thought I could help since I know Danish and could get Danish sources. There's still room for improvement in the article :) //
Replayful (
talk |
contribs)
14:55, 17 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Just finished the last few articles needing citations and/or footnotes. I'll let the cleanup listing reset this week and add some new targets. I think this week will be a big drop in cleanup issue count and we're already halfway (54%) to goal. czar00:54, 8 July 2024 (UTC)reply
We're two thirds (67%) of our way to goal! New cleanup tags added for your consideration above: Factual verification needed and Unreliable source cited. Take a peek and if you struggle with any article, bring it here for discussion as you're likely not alone. czar04:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)reply
This has unfortunately resulted in quite a few articles being stubbified, which has reversed some of the progress we made with the stub expansion drive. So if anyone has the time and energy to expand some of these stubs, that'd be appreciated. --
Grnrchst (
talk)
10:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Challenges
There are a few cleanups that look particularly challenging and I thought I'd list them here for consideration separate from the list above, in case someone is interested in a meatier project. czar16:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Johnson, Steven (May 14, 2024). The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective. New York: Crown.
ISBN978-0-593-44395-8.
Articles
Bratton, Francesca (2023). "'Strange symbols to the new dawn': Lola Ridge, Anarchist Networks, and the Carceral Elegy: Irish University Review". Irish University Review. 53 (2): 385–403.
doi:
10.3366/iur.2023.0621.
ISSN0021-1427 – via
EBSCOhost.
Brown, Henry (February 2024). "The Anarchist in Uniform: The Militarisation of Anarchist Culture during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Contemporary European History". Contemporary European History. 33 (1): 305–322.
doi:
10.1017/S0960777322000285.
ISSN0960-7773 – via
EBSCOhost.
Cadle, Nathaniel (2023). "Ralph Touchett, Anarchist". The Henry James Review. 44 (3): 207–214.
ISSN1080-6555.
Project MUSE910905.
Desjardins, Sophie; Giroux, Annabelle; Gamache, Dominick (February 10, 2024). "Comparison of personality traits of two anti‐oppression groups: Vegans and anarchists: Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy". Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy: 1.
doi:
10.1111/asap.12385.
ISSN1529-7489 – via
EBSCOhost.
di Stefano, Mariana (February 2024). "Lengua y utopía: El movimiento esperantista en España, 1890–1936: Journal of Sociolinguistics". Journal of Sociolinguistics (in Spanish). 28 (1): 93–96.
doi:
10.1111/josl.12627.
ISSN1360-6441 – via
EBSCOhost.
Kenworthy, Nora; Hops, Emily; Hagopian, Amy (2023). "Mutual Aid Praxis Aligns Principles and Practice in Grassroots COVID-19 Responses Across the US". Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 33 (2): 115–144.
ISSN1086-3249.
Project MUSE904080.
Kreilkamp, Ivan (2024). "Meat, Flesh, Skin: The Carnality of The Secret Agent". Studies in the Novel. 56 (1): 21–40.
ISSN1934-1512.
Project MUSE921057.
Miller, David W. (2023). "The Social Prison: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed as Postanarchist Critical Utopia". Utopian Studies. 34 (3): 399–417.
ISSN2154-9648.
Project MUSE917445.
Nelson, Eric S. (2023). "Daoism, Practice, and Politics: From Nourishing Life to Ecological Praxis". Philosophy East and West. 73 (3): 792–801.
ISSN1529-1898.
Project MUSE903375.
Turbutt, Sophie (February 2024). "Sexual Revolution and the Spanish Anarchist Press: Bodies, Birth Control, and Free Love in the 1930s Advice Columns of La Revista Blanca: Contemporary European History". Contemporary European History. 33 (1): 338–356.
doi:
10.1017/S0960777322000315.
ISSN0960-7773 – via
EBSCOhost.
White, Stuart (February 2, 2024). "The vulnerability of pragmatic anarchism: contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown's Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy: History of European Ideas". History of European Ideas: 1–3.
doi:
10.1080/01916599.2024.2307759.
ISSN0191-6599 – via
EBSCOhost.
Book/film reviews
Bishop, Wesley R. (2023). "Rev. of The Collected Works of Errico Malatesta, Volume III, A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L'Agitazione, 1897–1898, ed. by Davide Turcato". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 17 (2): 222–224.
ISSN1930-1197.
Project MUSE920065.
Golder, Lauren J. (2023). "Rev. of Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements by Mike Finn". Journal of History. 58 (2): 213–215.
ISSN2292-8502.
Project MUSE915089.
Hansson, John-Erik (2023). "Rev. of Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth". Utopian Studies. 34 (3): 606–612.
ISSN2154-9648.
Project MUSE917466.
Waldron, Caroline (March 2024). "Rev. of Transatlantic Radicalism: Socialist and Anarchist Exchanges in the 19th and 20th Centuries". Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. 21 (1): 130–133.
doi:
10.1215/15476715-10949064.
ISSN1547-6715 – via
EBSCOhost.
Brown, Henry (September 2, 2023). "'¡Vivan las tribus!': persecution, resistance and anarchist agency in the Popular Army during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9)". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 29 (3): 357–379.
doi:
10.1080/14701847.2023.2282836.
ISSN1470-1847 – via
Taylor & Francis.
Byrne, Charlotte (September 2, 2023). "A queer problem: writing sapphic anarchism in Spanish Civil War fiction". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 29 (3): 381–402.
doi:
10.1080/14701847.2023.2282837.
ISSN1470-1847 – via
Taylor & Francis.
Campos, Ana (September 2, 2023). "It started on the railroads: the journey of an anarcho-syndicalist in the Spanish Civil War". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 29 (3): 319–333.
doi:
10.1080/14701847.2023.2282831.
ISSN1470-1847 – via
Taylor & Francis.
Doyle, Alex (September 2, 2023). "Transnationalism, class and national identity in the Cuban labour movement (1898-1902)". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 29 (3): 335–356.
doi:
10.1080/14701847.2023.2282832.
ISSN1470-1847 – via
Taylor & Francis.
Duarte, Diogo (September 2, 2023). "'Anarchy in the streets': anarchism, public order and social housing in Portugal (1900-1940)". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 29 (3): 301–318.
doi:
10.1080/14701847.2023.2282830.
ISSN1470-1847 – via
Taylor & Francis.
The
List of fictional anarchists doesn't currently meet the
list notability criteria, namely that there isn't sourcing that covers this group as a list. It's more of a collection of
original research and primary sources that would be sufficiently handled as a category (if there are enough notable fictional anarchists). Wanted to see if anyone else had sources or thoughts before sending it to AfD or merger. czar16:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I think categories are probably the way to go in general, but I think there probably is coverage of individual parts of that list - eg there's a whole special issue on anarchists and comics
here. --
asilvering (
talk)
01:43, 5 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Too broad, I think, and properly it should be about the interaction between arts and anarchism (ie, Anarchism AND arts), not simply characters who are anarchists, or storylines that are about anarchism (ie, Anarchism IN arts). --
asilvering (
talk)
18:05, 12 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I'd be inclined to !vote keep if that list were nominated for deletion. Per
WP:CLN, per academic sources that consider the evolving representation of anarchists across works of fiction (and list them
[1],
[2],
[3]), or per
WP:IAR. Aside from a strict reading of NLIST, is there a reason this should be deleted? We have plenty of crufty listicles on wiki that ought to be memory holed, but this list doesn't strike me as egregious.
gobonobo+c01:52, 8 July 2024 (UTC)reply
It's not that it's the most egregious but it's been tagged for cleanup and sourced to primary or unreliable sources so we should figure out its prognosis. I think the sources you cite make a case for an article on how anarchism appears in fiction but not necessarily fictional anarchist characters as a group or class, unless you're seeing something I'm not. czar14:31, 12 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I see that you tagged it for cleanup. And there are primary sources in the article that could be addressed/replaced, but the majority of the references are reliable, citing books for the most part. As to NLIST criteria and the characterization of my sources, I beg to differ. The first source,
is explicitly about anarchists in British fiction, not anarchy in fiction. The paper goes on for 26 pages about the anarchist character in British fiction, exploring specific instances, and treating them as a class. The second, Against Anarchy, also explores anarchist characters as a class in several places, discussing, for example, their association with a set of clichés, preconceptions, and stereotypes in early modernist fiction.
gobonobo+c15:13, 12 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Having looked into this some more and taken some more time reading the individual list entries, I think I would also be inclined to vote keep in an AfD. At the same time, I don't think this is a particularly useful list article, nor do I think it could become a particularly useful article. Part of the trouble is that there are some works that are entirely about a group of anarchists, so you end up with effectively no reason to exclude any character from The Anarchist Cookbook (film), which starts to become a bit ridiculous. I also see that the characters in each medium really are dealt with in very different ways, so I'm unconvinced that a hypothetical FL-level version of this list would hold together. More reasonable, I think, would be
List of anarchists in television,
List of anarchists in comics, etc. (Or just
Anarchists in television,
Anarchists in comics.)
Which is to say, I think we can reasonably remove the notability tag and leave "making this into a better article" as a building-the-encyclopedia project, not an urgent maintenance task. --
asilvering (
talk)
18:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)reply