Ayn Rand: Revision history

5 February 2024

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• curprev 10:3010:30, 5 February 2024‎ Pat Palmer talk contribs‎ m 18,704 bytes +4‎ reordering things at the top a bit for a better into, I hope
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• curprev 10:2410:24, 5 February 2024‎ Pat Palmer talk contribs‎ 18,685 bytes −112‎ Simplifying the intro to get the heart of the matter (her view of how the world works
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• curprev 10:1810:18, 5 February 2024‎ Pat Palmer talk contribs‎ 18,839 bytes +318‎ adding more about her view of the hero vs. the dumb masses
• curprev 10:1210:12, 5 February 2024‎ Pat Palmer talk contribs‎ 18,521 bytes +76‎ adding an image
• curprev 06:1506:15, 5 February 2024‎ George Swan talk contribs‎ 18,445 bytes +635‎ No edit summary
• curprev 05:5905:59, 5 February 2024‎ George Swan talk contribs‎ 17,810 bytes +745‎ add reference

23 September 2010

• curprev 20:4220:42, 23 September 2010‎ imported>T. J. Frazier‎ m 17,065 bytes +944‎ + cat "Link Check"

28 August 2010

• curprev 06:4306:43, 28 August 2010‎ imported>T. J. Frazier‎ 17,041 bytes +920‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: DEAD LINK 404 error

2 November 2009

• curprev 17:3917:39, 2 November 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 16,993 bytes +872‎ some nifty stuff from the Sunday NYT

7 October 2009

• curprev 01:1901:19, 7 October 2009‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 16,121 bytes +468‎ →‎American politics

6 October 2009

• curprev 22:5022:50, 6 October 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 16,123 bytes +470‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: no one has kicked around Atlas Shrugged for a while, so I'll give it another go with a nice Newsweek quote
• curprev 22:4222:42, 6 October 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,653 bytes +54‎ put in the names of the two novels -- what a sloppy job this article is/was
• curprev 22:3922:39, 6 October 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,608 bytes +1‎ Barr is no longer a candidate, just a politician, I guess
• curprev 22:3722:37, 6 October 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,607 bytes +8‎ she was a 'Merkin novelist, not a Russian
• curprev 22:3722:37, 6 October 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,598 bytes −1‎ changed "nowadays" to "today"
• curprev 22:3622:36, 6 October 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,601 bytes +2‎ spaced the endash

30 May 2009

• curprev 10:1310:13, 30 May 2009‎ imported>Caesar Schinas‎ m 15,599 bytes 0‎ Robot: Changing template: TOC-right

31 December 2008

• curprev 14:3714:37, 31 December 2008‎ imported>Christian Kleineidam‎ 15,599 bytes +15,599‎ Ron Paul wasn't running as libertarian party candidate

29 December 2008

• curprev 19:3619:36, 29 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,767 bytes +15,402‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: removed quotes from two more words that don't deserve irony
• curprev 19:3519:35, 29 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,770 bytes +15,456‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: removed quotes from "hero" -- there's no call for irony here, he really is the hero of the novel

5 December 2008

• curprev 14:5614:56, 5 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,772 bytes +317‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: got an email from the National Review, put in the 1958 circulation figure and a footnote; minor rewriting

4 December 2008

• curprev 12:2112:21, 4 December 2008‎ imported>Larry Sanger‎ 15,455 bytes 0‎ Just putting another linkable example in the page history
• curprev 12:1812:18, 4 December 2008‎ imported>Larry Sanger‎ 18,898 bytes +3,443‎ →‎Life and Works: Example of Neutrality Notes collapsible & collapsed by default
• curprev 11:5711:57, 4 December 2008‎ imported>Larry Sanger‎ 15,455 bytes +1‎ Undoing my edit--just wanted to put an example in the history of what an in-line Neutrality Notes box (of this length) would look like
• curprev 11:5611:56, 4 December 2008‎ imported>Larry Sanger‎ 18,922 bytes +3,467‎ →‎Life and Works

3 December 2008

• curprev 02:1002:10, 3 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ 15,455 bytes +1‎ typo
• curprev 02:0902:09, 3 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ 15,454 bytes +357‎ easier to scan text for end of citation if put a break after }}?
• curprev 02:0602:06, 3 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ 15,449 bytes 0‎ comma before rather than after?

2 December 2008

• curprev 22:5922:59, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,449 bytes +352‎ how she thought of herself, at least as of October 1957
• curprev 22:5622:56, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,097 bytes +2,841‎ let's change "view of proper life" to philosophic views; other minor edits
• curprev 22:5322:53, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,100 bytes +1,303‎ removed a couple of commas
• curprev 22:5222:52, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,102 bytes +1‎ put in a vital comma
• curprev 20:5920:59, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 15,101 bytes +105‎ No edit summary
• curprev 20:4420:44, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 14,996 bytes +491‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: changed 10,000 to xxxxx while I email the editors at National Review to see if they can give me an idea of their 1957 circulation
• curprev 18:0118:01, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ 14,964 bytes −57‎ Does this improve the flow? I removed "although there is no universally accepted definition of the term" is there a strong need for this disclaimer?
• curprev 17:3917:39, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 15,021 bytes +516‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: a 1998 Newsweek calls both big books "political pamphlets"
• curprev 17:2417:24, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 14,505 bytes +708‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: put in Time mag quote and circ. figure
• curprev 17:1317:13, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 13,797 bytes 0‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: spelling correction
• curprev 17:1217:12, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 13,797 bytes +1,541‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: ref. the NYT circ. figure, at least within a few years
• curprev 16:2116:21, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 13,731 bytes 0‎ Bolding doesn't give any information in most link cases (rare exceptions). A redlink does,. If the intent were to emphasize, italics would be standard
• curprev 16:1816:18, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Martin Cohen‎ m 13,733 bytes +2‎ as Objectivism is at present only covered on this page, changing link to 'bold'
• curprev 14:5614:56, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 13,731 bytes +1,475‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: quote from the NYT; rewrote the Buckley stuff. Gotta go buy some gin, but when I come back I'll put in the Time mag. review
• curprev 14:0814:08, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 12,768 bytes −17‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged
• curprev 13:5013:50, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 12,715 bytes −257‎ →‎Atlas Shrugged: minor editing of the Buck. para. I'll track down the NYT review and see what it says.
• curprev 13:1213:12, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ 12,667 bytes −303‎ No edit summary
• curprev 13:0213:02, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 12,970 bytes −2‎ →‎Advocacy of Objectivism: removed "even" for the second time -- this sounds like Rah-Rah stuff to me, and I don't mean St. RAH, either. Hmmm, seems as if she might have influenced him a bit?
• curprev 12:5812:58, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 12,972 bytes +187‎ Edits and links
• curprev 12:5112:51, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 12,785 bytes +529‎ Again, removed judgmental adjectives
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• curprev 12:3212:32, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ m 14,813 bytes +2‎ format
• curprev 12:3012:30, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Chris Day‎ 14,811 bytes +1,476‎ Reorder to try and make this flow more logically
• curprev 11:1511:15, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 14,838 bytes +3‎ relocated a comma, added italics to a book
• curprev 11:1311:13, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 14,835 bytes +1,500‎ →‎Life and Works: put in some italics to make the usage of them consistent
• curprev 11:1211:12, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 14,823 bytes +1,488‎ removed "as" once again -- this is totally unnecessary and I haven't seen it used anywhere else for people who were given one name at birth but later used another
• curprev 00:4000:40, 2 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 14,826 bytes +1,493‎ Moved text around, not leading with non-neutral review of Atlas Shruged

1 December 2008

• curprev 18:0118:01, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ m 13,333 bytes −2‎ typo
• curprev 17:5817:58, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 13,335 bytes +3,292‎ removed the short para about her unconventional assertions from the top and put it down at the bottom of the article, now that the article has been fleshed out; this is hardly a major part of her bio
• curprev 17:5417:54, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ m 13,332 bytes +2,445‎ Qualified National Review as opposed to Rand on policy; removed judgmental adjective
• curprev 17:5317:53, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 13,219 bytes +2,332‎ Oh, well, let's put in her complete bibliography
• curprev 17:5017:50, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,887 bytes +844‎ moved TOC -- I hate all that white space
• curprev 17:4917:49, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,872 bytes +829‎ put in full dates; thanks for the comma, Ro -- I had kept meaning to do it but kept forgetting
• curprev 17:2617:26, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ m 10,847 bytes +804‎ →‎Influence: ,
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• curprev 14:1014:10, 1 December 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,044 bytes +1‎ made a major change to the second paragraph, to which I think all sides will agree: added a missing period

29 November 2008

• curprev 16:4116:41, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,043 bytes +3,386‎ →‎Influence: I assume that the stamp was first *issued* in NYC
• curprev 16:1816:18, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 10,031 bytes +2‎ Should the Wikipedia entry have been short and disrespectful? Much pruning of adjectives and rhetoric
• curprev 16:1716:17, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 10,029 bytes +3,372‎ Should the coverage, perhaps, have been brief and disrespectful? A few less adjectives, please.
• curprev 16:1616:16, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,148 bytes +137‎ let's give the facts: she had *two* bestselling novels, plus, what? one other?; also, expanded on her long-winded characters
• curprev 16:1116:11, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,110 bytes −1‎ change three words in lede to two
• curprev 16:1016:10, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 10,111 bytes +100‎ copyediting lede para. also, let's put her "unconventional" states of 1971 into their temporal context. In any case, I doubt if this should even be mentioned so high up in the article.
• curprev 16:0516:05, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Howard C. Berkowitz‎ 10,011 bytes +390‎ WIthout agreeing with her writings or not, it is simply inaccurate to speak only of novels.
• curprev 15:5515:55, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Martin Cohen‎ 9,621 bytes +386‎ more power to objectivism!
• curprev 15:5315:53, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,235 bytes +20‎ →‎Life and Works: minor copyediting, mostly putting the titles of her books into italics
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• curprev 15:5015:50, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ m 9,219 bytes −2‎ changed 'a philosopher' to a 'philosopher'
• curprev 15:4915:49, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,221 bytes −310‎ copyediting the two lede paragraphs to restore some of the qualifiers than I had previously put in and that I thought you had agree to; also, CZ convention is "20th century"
• curprev 15:4615:46, 29 November 2008‎ imported>Martin Cohen‎ 9,531 bytes +360‎ and a bit more on her influence