Talk:Lone wolf terrorism

Definition is OR

I don't think the definition this page uses, constructing a kind of non-terror "lone wolf actor" is actually used outside of wikipedia. I am fairly certain "lone actor/lone wolf" concept is here exclusive to terrorism. None of the articles I am seeing cited here or elsewhere actually give it the secondary definition we apply to it. The motive/casualties/whatsoever are a strange distraction because these are not what the sources talk about or use in defining what is a lone actor case. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:27, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

I have removed a large chunk of this page that was OR or did not verify. This was on off topic concepts - not all lone actor terrorism is mass murder, method is not relevant for qualification for one. Several sources did not use lone actor, lone wolf, whatsoever! Many more did not say what we were citing them for. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:42, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 14 February 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerium (talk) 00:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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Lone wolf attack → Lone wolf terrorism – Lone actor terrorism is the more academic term but lone wolf is more popular in vernacular, pick your poison (Lone wolf terrorism is also an acceptable option) actually Lone wolf terrorism is more common in RS so i have changed it to that. The important bit is the "terrorism". This article was moved from Lone wolf (terrorism) without a RM, which admittedly is a bad way to structure the title, because the contents of the page covered non-terror attacks. The problem is, this whole definition was OR and made up seemingly whole cloth, that I have now removed. The lone actor/lone wolf concept is exclusive to terrorism, that is the entire distinction. Mass murder has nothing to do with the definition of this, many lone wolf terror attacks are not mass murder. None of the sources we were using to support an assertion of non-terror lone wolf actions being an accepted category say so, many didn't mention lone wolves at all, they were just sources about mass shootings and mass murder which were used incorrectly to conflate it with this concept without even using the words lone wolf, lone actor, or any equivalent term etc. This is the common name for the actual sources that talk about it and not an OR-mess of completely different things, and in fact several sources actively distinguish and compare them. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:46, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

• Support per rationale of PARAKANYAA. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 14:28, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support It seems to be widely used as a term. My few searches found several examples in modern fiction. Dimadick (talk) 05:13, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 08:08, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

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