Talk:Synergy

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Removing tags, blank edit summaries

When you are ready to behave professionally, let me know and I'll unprotect the page. I have no special connection to this article, but removing the tags without an explanation is disruptive. El_C 04:25, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Also, please consider registering an account instead of, confusingly, hopping from IP to IP. El_C 04:39, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I am sorry to stop attempting to put some logic into the squabble between religious concepts, art, charlatanry a pinch of science that passes as an entry for Synergy in Wikipedia. The editor has clearly no knowledge nor interest about the subject (he wrote me so) and just applies lazily archaic dogmatic rules without regard to logic, clarity and relevance. I am ashamed to have recommended in innumerable occasion students to check Wikipedia without being aware that many article are badly edited, contain misleading information and rather subtract from the knowledge of the reader. Cheers MercuryTest (talk) 20:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

This response comes after several attempts to improve the section on synergy that were deleted without any explanations MercuryTest (talk) 20:52, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

If this message is for me, I will try to edit with my login MercuryTest. Sorry if I have coused disruptions. I am new to editing wiki. But the article on synergy is totally biased towards religious cristian fundamentalism promoted by Peter Crorning and I try to provide more scientific alternative views 201.208.118.204 (talk) 12:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)

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Final Fantasy mention

I do not see any merit in the mentioning of "Synergists" in the Final Fantasy game. The description offers no indication that these characters have anything to do with the concept of synergy. I propose to remove it. I was going to edit but this is still semi-protected at the moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Technokratisch (talk • contribs) 12:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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Yes, by all means be wp:BOLD and remove it, mentioning the lack of sourcing and referring to the talk page in the edit summary. They can always put it back with a proper source. - DVdm (talk) 13:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Ah yes, semi-protected. File:Yes check.svg Done: [1]. - DVdm (talk) 13:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Synergy in relationship of all kinds of energy...

Thermal Energy, Dark Energy, Kinetic Energy to work together as synergy of energy, what's this? 112.201.11.90 (talk) 13:56, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Creating the section that describes the misuse of the term in pseudoscience

The word "synergy" is frequiently used by occultists and otherwise pseudoscientific people to further their ideals. Heck, there are literally examples of destructive edits to this page that warranted banning users over adding their occult and esoteric meanings of "synergy". Personally, that's all I associate the word "synergy" with.

I think perhaps the article could be richer if it touches on how the word "synergy" is frequently used as a buzzword. Thoughts? Eliora39770 (talk) 17:56, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

You are so right. First, we have to be clear about e.g. "vector addition" that never produces a vector with a norm bigger than that of each of the two. All physical or mathematical references make no sense. It's all about psychology, economics, and the like. The same problem we have with "energy" used in psychology: they have "positive energy" and "negative energy". As "positive energy" can be more or less formally defined as the ability of bodies to do job, "negative energy" should be defined as the ability of bodies to take a break.

Probably "synergy" is the ability of bodies to have fun together, or something.

What I wanted to say, we need to be clear: the word has no scientific meaning.

Vlad Patryshev (talk) 23:59, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the most valuable element of the whole article for me was the quote of the Tolkien footnote that used the example of a tapestry created of individual threads. Tolkien's point is that "something" in addition to the individual threads created the picture. Likewise, the cause of the "synergy" that produces a winning soccer team may be objectively elusive to the individual players.

Perhaps "synergy" is best thought of as an indication that there's an additional unidentified "ingredient" in the result of a particular combination of elements. 174.20.127.144 (talk) 17:40, 22 May 2025 (UTC)