Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stochastic terrorism
Fails  which, among other things, stipulates that in order to have a page a neologism must be supported by what "reliable secondary sources, such as books and papers, say about the term or concept, not books and papers that use the term." and that even "neologisms that are in wide use but for which there are no treatments in secondary sources are not yet ready for use and coverage in Wikipedia."  Here, however, use is not "wide" and the secondary source on which the definition is based is an anonymous blog entitled ''"Stochastic Terrorism"''; I ran a JSTOR search and it came up empty.  It may, of course, merely be .  If  of this term as a term surfaces at some future point, a section could be added to Lone wolf (terrorism), of which this seems to be an alternative label.  '''Note''' that the only two sources that examine this term (the blog and the Rolling Stone  article, define it as a type of lone wolf terrorism, Rolling Stone calls it a dog whistle to an "unknown '''lone wolf''' who hears his call and takes action in the future, " The blog says that, "The random actor, or "'''lone wolf'''" as the term is used in law enforcement and intel, is the person who responds to the incitement by carrying out the violent or terrorist act against the target person or group.  For example they shoot someone or detonate a bomb.  While their action may have been statistically predictable (e.g. "given sufficient provocation, someone will probably do such-and-such"), the specific person and the specific act are not yet predictable
— User:E, 18:52, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NEO||WP:TOOSOON||WP:SIGCOV (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)