if you're familiar with all these points then it's unclear why you keep insisting that it should go in the lead and not simply in a very small portion i e one short sentence in the body of the text as attributed see wp att to the author if these academics let's put aside the journalist's op ed for a moment don't actually say gaijin has a racial aspect why would you want it in the lead in the first place original synthesis says that someone takes fact a combines it fact b and then produce c it's still unclear to me what you have described isn't fringe original synthesis as for endroit's suggestion above that we invoke attribution and all the work that attribution entails i'm beginning to think that this is the only way to resolve this issue in a responsible manner i've put it off until now because it is a god awful amount of work for one person and slp was kind enough to get us half way there but it's still missing major portions of the cited materials from reputable sources best