Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of apartheid (fifth nomination)
As before,  is a content policy, not an article inclusion policy. Every article can be considered a "synthesis" in the literal sense -- an editor decides that a topic merits an articles, goes and fetches sources, and synthesises them in writing the article. Thankfully, our definition of prohibited synthesis is more narrow. ''"Synthesizing material occurs when an editor comes to a conclusion by putting together different sources."'' Exactly what non-obvious conclusion is being synthesized here; what "position" is being advanced -- that apartheid analogies are observably common? (Not exactly a controvertible premise.) Deciding that topic like apartheid analogies merits inclusion is a meta-level editorial decision; applying  in this context is like applying  to an XfD comment
— User:XDanielx, 20:20, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SYN||WP:OR||WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:No original research)