Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anarchism

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11 edits	Jules Vallès
10 edits	PM Press
7 edits	International Anarchist Congresses
7 edits	Bérurier Noir
7 edits	Margaret Killjoy
6 edits	Herbert Read
6 edits	Vermin Supreme
5 edits	Moxie Marlinspike

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 12 July 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

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Cleanup drive

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.

Factual verification needed (12)

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.

• Anarchist communism
• Anti-Stalinist left
• Battle of Peregonovka
• Black anarchism
• Earth Liberation Front
• Egoist anarchism
• Grass Roots Books
• Individualist anarchism
• Issues in anarchism
• List of anarchist musicians
• Propaganda of the deed
• Stateless society

Cites unreliable sources (26)

Search for the passages tagged with {{Better source}}, {{Obsolete source}}, {{Primary sources}}, {{Unreliable sources}}, {{Verify credibility}}, {{Third-party}}, {{Third-party-inline}}, or {{Circular reference}}. This could be, for instance, a primary source affiliated with an anarchist movement or a reference without editorial distance from the subject. Either (a) replace with a reliable, secondary, independent source and remove the tag, or (b) remove the passage and the tag if no reliable reference exists.

• Anarchism in Serbia
• Anarchism in the United States
• Anarchist communism
• Anarcho-syndicalism
• Earth Liberation Front
• Egoist anarchism
• Eros + Massacre
• Expropriative anarchism
• IWA–AIT
• Individualist anarchism
• International Workingmen's Association
• Issues in anarchism
• Killing of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán
• Leo Tolstoy
• Lucía Sánchez Saornil
• Lysander Spooner
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Neozapatismo
• Property is theft!
• Rewilding (anarchism)
• Tragic Week (Spain)
• Treyf (podcast)
• V for Vendetta (film)
• Yegor Letov
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation
• Zapatista uprising

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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! czar 14:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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)

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. czar 03:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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)

@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)

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)

There is a backlog drive for sourcing unsourced statements starting tomorrow, which can be a good reason for finishing our above {{citation needed}} list. :)

Also nice work on sourcing List of self-managed social centers, @Graveyardpansy! czar 11:48, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

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)

Thanks for your citations on Ungdomshuset, @Replayful! czar 12:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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)

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. czar 00:54, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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. czar 04:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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. czar 16:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

• Talk:Governance without government#Created by a sock puppet – consider merging
• Talk:Acayucan Rebellion#Incomplete citations - cites a source many times but not page numbers
• Talk:Anarchism in China#Further cleanup and work to be done – cites a source many times but not page numbers
• Anarchism in Germany needs to be written as a general history rather than as an overview of German anarchist figures; will require removal
• Confederal militias needs to be rewritten from scratch to make organizational sense
• FEJUVE only uses a single source and needs some expansion from other listed sources
• Heroic Corps – general copy edit needed to make suitable for a general audience; might want to confirm sources
• Lev Chernyi needs to remove closely paraphrased sources, likely by removal

Recent literature (2024 Q1/Q2)

For not-as-recent lit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for 2024 and anything we've previously missed. Feel free to add! czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Books

• Johnson, Steven (May 14, 2024). The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-44395-8.

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. ISSN 0021-1427 – 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. ISSN 0960-7773 – via EBSCOhost.
• Cadle, Nathaniel (2023). "Ralph Touchett, Anarchist". The Henry James Review. 44 (3): 207–214. ISSN 1080-6555. Project MUSE 910905.
• Collins, Lucy (2023). "Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge's New York Networks: English Studies". English Studies. 104 (6): 1118–1138. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2023.2257532. ISSN 0013-838X – via EBSCOhost.
• 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. ISSN 1529-7489 – 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. ISSN 1360-6441 – via EBSCOhost.
• Gowers, Bernard (March 1, 2024). "Graeber and Wengrow's Middle Ages". Anarchist Studies. 32 (1): 92–108.
• Kaczmarek, Tomasz (2023). "De la Commune à l'anarchie de Charles Malato : le destin de l'écrivain libertaire: Cahiers ERTA". Cahiers ERTA (in French) (36): 137–153. doi:10.4467/23538953ce.23.035.18975. ISSN 2300-4681. EBSCOhost 174591486.
• 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. ISSN 1086-3249. Project MUSE 904080.
• Kreilkamp, Ivan (2024). "Meat, Flesh, Skin: The Carnality of The Secret Agent". Studies in the Novel. 56 (1): 21–40. ISSN 1934-1512. Project MUSE 921057.
• Miller, David W. (2023). "The Social Prison: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed as Postanarchist Critical Utopia". Utopian Studies. 34 (3): 399–417. ISSN 2154-9648. Project MUSE 917445.
• Nelson, Eric S. (2023). "Daoism, Practice, and Politics: From Nourishing Life to Ecological Praxis". Philosophy East and West. 73 (3): 792–801. ISSN 1529-1898. Project MUSE 903375.
• Schwartz, Yossef (2023). "Like Giants Sitting on the Dwarf's Shoulders: Religious Anarchism and the Making of Modern Zionist Historiography: Religions". Religions. 14 (10): 1239. doi:10.3390/rel14101239. ISSN 2077-1444 – via EBSCOhost.
• Sørensen, Majken Jul; Martin, Brian (April 2024). "Beyond nonviolent regime change: Anarchist insights: Peace & Change". Peace & Change. 49 (2): 124–139. doi:10.1111/pech.12663. ISSN 0149-0508 – via EBSCOhost.
• 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. ISSN 0960-7773 – 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. ISSN 0191-6599 – 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. ISSN 1930-1197. Project MUSE 920065.
• Genens, Doug (2024). "Rev. of Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle by Adrian Prawica, New Day Films (review)". The Public Historian. 46 (2): 161–163. ISSN 1533-8576 – via Project MUSE.
• 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. ISSN 2292-8502. Project MUSE 915089.
• Hansson, John-Erik (2023). "Rev. of Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth". Utopian Studies. 34 (3): 606–612. ISSN 2154-9648. Project MUSE 917466.
• Patrick, Wil Sahar (December 17, 2023). "Rev. of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow". Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies. 2023 (2): 187–210. ISSN 1923-5615.
• Shepard, Nikita (December 17, 2023). "Rev. of Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture by Kathy Ferguson". Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies. 2023 (2): 177–186. ISSN 1923-5615.
• 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. ISSN 1547-6715 – via EBSCOhost.

Journals

• Anarchist Studies (2024), vol. 32, no. 1. ISSN 2633-8270
  • Bantman, Constance (2024). "Rev. of Women of Liberty". Anarchist Studies. 32 (1): 115–117. doi:10.3898/AS.32.1.REV. ISSN 0967-3393 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Bekken, Jon (2024). "Rev. of The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-Political Dimension". Anarchist Studies. 32 (1): 123–125. doi:10.3898/AS.32.1.REV. ISSN 0967-3393 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Lademacher, Marina (2024). "Rev. of The Modern Crisis/Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray Bookchin". Anarchist Studies. 32 (1): 117–121. doi:10.3898/AS.32.1.REV. ISSN 0967-3393 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Lloyd, Declan (2024). "Rev. of Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde". Anarchist Studies. 32 (1): 111–113. doi:10.3898/AS.32.1.REV. ISSN 0967-3393 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Margarucci, Ivanna (2024). "Rev. of Direct Action in Montevideo: Uruguayan Anarchism, 1927-1937". Anarchist Studies. 32 (1): 113–115. doi:10.3898/AS.32.1.REV. ISSN 0967-3393 – via EBSCOhost.

• Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (2023), vol. 2023, no. 2 ISSN 1923-5615

Special issues

• Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, volume 29, issue 3, 2023, special issue on Iberian anarchism in twentieth-century history
  Newmark, Joshua; Turbutt, Sophie (September 2, 2023). "Iberian anarchism in twentieth-century history". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 29 (3): 295–299. doi:10.1080/14701847.2023.2282829. ISSN 1470-1847 – via Taylor & Francis.
  • 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. ISSN 1470-1847 – 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. ISSN 1470-1847 – 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. ISSN 1470-1847 – 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. ISSN 1470-1847 – 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. ISSN 1470-1847 – via Taylor & Francis.

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czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Developing Countries WikiContest

Hi everyone. Next week marks the beginning of the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, which is dedicated to improving articles about the Global South. Articles focused on Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe account for roughly one quarter of our project. If you fancy taking on some articles for improvement during this event, feel free to spool through our categories covering Africa, Asia and South America, as well as relevant parts of Europe and North America. We also have some vital articles from these regions that still need improving, so if you fancy taking those on, they are:

• Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Chen Jiongming
• Peter Kropotkin
• Subcomandante Marcos
• Sergey Nechayev
• Bhagat Singh
• Leo Tolstoy
• Emiliano Zapata
• Zhuang Zhou

I don't know how much I'll be able to participate, as I'm feeling quite burned out at the moment, but I think this would be an excellent opportunity for us to expand our geographical focus. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Fictional anarchists

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. czar 16:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

I could see a potential article about anarchism in fiction based on sources like that but not a list of fictional anarchists. czar 14:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

We already have Anarchism and the arts, which is a bit broader in scope. gobonobo ^{+ c} 01:52, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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)

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 ^{+ c} 01:52, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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. czar 14:31, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

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,

• Shpayer-Makov, Haia (September 1996). "A traitor to his class: the anarchist in British fiction". Journal of European Studies. 26 (3): 299–325. doi:10.1177/004724419602600303.

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 ^{+ c} 15:13, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

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)