User talk:LaszloWalrus

Welcome

Hello, LaszloWalrus, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! - Willmcw 09:04, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

check out you userpage now

you said put somthing there so i did

Upcoming 3RR

LasloWalrus, you've very close to a 3RR violation on Ayn Rand. Don't do it. Come to Discussion and see if you can find a rational justification for deleting that category. If you come and talk about it, I'll even leave the category commented out for now. Alienus 07:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Fine, you want to be a bully, you can argue with the admins. I've reported you. Congrats. Alienus 07:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three revert rule in regard to the article Ayn Rand. Other users in violation have also been blocked. The timing of this block is coincidental, and does not represent an endorsement of the current article revision. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future on the article's talk page (Talk:Ayn Rand). Sceptre ^(Talk) 10:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry I couldn't help you out. This was all over before I got online. However I am now in this and will remove the LGBT Rights Opposition category on sight. Billyjoekoepsel 05:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Billy, I appreciate your commitment to continuing this edit war instead of trying to find a consensus. It just helps prove my point. Thanks again! Alienus 23:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

About your user boxes.

I am going to organize them tomorrow in a modified Babel box. It will clean up the way your page looks. And if you want the boxes themselves modified to meet with the possible new draconian standards against polemical boxes I can do that.

Check out my user page to see what I am talking about. Billyjoekoepsel 03:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Hope you like it. Billyjoekoepsel 05:13, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Removal of content from Objectivism and homosexuality

War

Please do not delete sections of text or valid links from Wikipedia articles. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Alienus 04:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Alienus 04:45, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Peace

I am attempting an intervention here, and I need your concurrence. Please see my request for Bjk's help and my comments here before doing any more reverts. Tx,--TJ 13:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
BTW, he did do a really nice job on those user-boxen, didn't he? :-) --TJ 13:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Pieces

Dear LazloWalrus, I am old enough that I was able to take the NBI courses when they were an official part of Objectivism. If any of my words to you seem blunt, it is because we are supposed to agree on most things.
Thank you for moderating your editing, at least somewhat. Your last edit summary was certainly to the point, and I agree that the reference was non-germane. Al and I will probably be editing very slowly, only one or two paragraphs at a time. If you could just please join our discussion on the Talk page, before editing, the work should proceed in a much smoother fashion.
My intent here is to produce a good, NPOV article. If people as ideologically different as Al and I can reach consensus, the result should be pretty darned NPOV! Rest assured that any comments you make will be carefully considered, and possibly amplified by me.
You might be interested in Wikipedia:No angry mastodons, to which I am contributing (see the Talk page there).
While the best place for directly article-related discussion is on that Talk page, please feel free to talk to me on my User Talk page, or even by e-mail if you feel the need for privacy. Regards, --TJ 21:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Why are you unhappy?

The admins have ruled, for better or for worse. Why are you going against that ruling by starting an edit war now?

As far as I'm concerned, you've just shown bad faith. As a result, I will formally reject any suggestions you make for Objectivism and homosexuality out of hand.Alienus 00:12, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit warring

I'm giving both you and User:Alienus a warning that, notwithstanding the fact that I'm not banning either of you from editing Ayn Rand, I will block you both if you persist in edit warring on the article. Then you won't be able to edit Wikipedia at all for a bit. Please continue to argue your cases on the talk page. --Tony Sidaway 01:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Seeing that Alienus continued to edit war on Objectivism and homosexuality after the end of his three hour block, and LaszloWalrus continued to edit war on Rodeo Drive after the end of his, I've added a twenty-one hour block to both. Both editors must get the message that it isn't acceptable to use edit warring as a tool to get their way. --Tony Sidaway 15:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

ARI

Anti-Reason Institute.

Peikoff is a worthless secondhander.

Pay attention to reality as it is rather than reality as you pretend it to be. Kurt Weber 22:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

objectivism scholars category

Please stop adding inaccurate categories to Camille Paglia and Robert Nozick. Paglia has discussed Rand briefly, and that is the extent of her "objectivism scholarship". She did not write in the objectivist tradition. You cannot place everyone who mentioned Rand once or twice in some catch-all category — to do so is to lie. — goethean ॐ 23:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:71327 copy.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:71327 copy.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Sherool (talk) 15:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletions

Please don't delete sourced material from articles without an explanation. You've deleted material from List of groups referred to as cults twice today without even giving an edit summary. Please use the talk page (talk:List of groups referred to as cults) to give a reason why the group you are deleting does not meet the criteria of the article. Thanks, -Will Beback 08:02, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

And don't do it a second time when it gets reverted the first time. Ok? Alienus 13:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Objectivism

The project is now active at Wikipedia:WikiProject Objectivism. I have added the user names of all those who expressed interest to the list of participants on the WikiProject page. I hope this is ok. --Matthew Humphreys 18:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Recent edits to Ayn Rand

The responses you've added recently to the Rand article (regarding ARI and regarding dogmatism) were good, and add balance. I appreciate your contribution to keeping the article NPOV. See how nicely everyone can get along when we resolve differences on Talk? :-) Best, --Wilanthule 00:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hola, LaszloWalrus

File:Ayn Rand´s spanish version of "we the living", 1962 book cover.jpg

¿Puedes por favor asignar la categoría de copyright correcta a este archivo?. Tengo más libros de Ayn Rand en castellano, pero, paradójicamente, no pueden ser publicados en la Wikipedia en castellano (nuestra política de copyright es más estricta). ¿Merece la pena, aún así, que las "suba" (upload) a la wiki en inglés?.

Soy el (hasta ahora) único objetivista de la Wikipedia en castellano. he creado todo el "complejo Ayn Rand" (artículos más sus enlaces) en la wiki castellana.

Te escribo por tres asuntos:

• Las portadas de los libros de Ayn Rand en castellano (ver pie de foto).
• Estoy creando el artículo en la wiki castellana [1], te sigiero que lo examines y que consideres el crear una versión (o adaptación es igual) en la wikipedia en inglés.
• he creado la categoría "Categoría:Wikipedistas Objetivistas castellano parlantes", en la que estoy yo solo. ¿Te apuntas a ella?.

Si te es más cómodo, respóndeme en inglés.

Mi página de ususario en la wiki en castellano es [2]

Un saludo, y que tengas buenas premisas.Randroide 14:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Hola de nuevo. ESCRIBISTE: "no sé el método correcto de "upload" las imagenes correctamente". RESPONDO: ¿Has "subido" (upload) imágenes alguna vez en Wikicommons?. Si no lo has hecho, te explico cómo s ehace. Sospecho que el usuario que "sube" imágenes a wikicommons desde Estados Unidos tiene opciones extra de etiquetado de copyright que yo no tengo. Si no has utilizado nunca la función de "subir" imágenes a wikicommons, el (poco) tiempo que necesites dedicar a este aprendizaje te va a ser muy valioso, ya que hará de ti un wikipedista mejor. Un saludo. Randroide 11:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Columbia University

Hi, do you go to Columbia University? I saw your page on the John Jay Scholars. As I was recently admitted to Columbia and named a Scholar, I figured that someone who knows about the Scholars program must be connected to Columbia in some way. Tyrant007

Days on Campus

Cool, were you at Days on Campus last week?--Tyrant007 00:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

John Jay again...

What's the source for this? "It is the most selective undergraduate awards program in the nation." --Tyrant007 04:48, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Aw, that's too bad. Where are you going? --Tyrant007 19:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Columbia was my first choice, and I got in regular, so I knew I was going as soon as I got the package. Well, best of luck wherever you choose to go! My best friend (going to Georgetown and on the waiting lists at Columbia and Princeton) would kill to go to Stanford (he got rejected). --Tyrant007 20:46, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Ditto about Princeton. Yep, that's the problem with the elite schools: you HAVE to apply to a bunch of them, because it really is a gamble, no matter how good you are. It all depends on the overall personality and desires of the admissions committee of each school. Even if School X thinks you're incredibly sweet, School Y may think you're a pretentious moron. And it's kind of a vicious cycle: kids realize this, so they apply to lots of schools, which makes it even more competitive, and the kids the next year see the even lower admissions rate and apply to even more schools, etc. I'm glad I applied today and not ten years from now. --Tyrant007 00:40, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Monroe Trout is he an objectivst?

• Did you know that Rand Financial Services http://www.randfinancial.com was founded by Monroe Trout

Also see the companies website

About Rand:About Rand

A quote from the article:

“Rand holds mystique because the company was founded through the purchase of Gerald Futures by hedge fund legend Monroe Trout. (The name was changed to Rand, as in Ayn Rand, the controversial author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.) Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the Rand model as the only FCM owned by a fund, despite some industry opposition.”

Reference: http://www.randfinancial.com/pdfforms/TradingPlaces_p10website.pdf

• Also the article from Forbes Magazine about a documentary about Ayn Rand's life financed by Monroe Trout

RE : http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0323/6106181a.html

"Critics are laying the same rap on Michael Paxton's triumphal two- hour-plus Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, which has drawn the Motion Picture Academy's notice this year. Working with "under $1 million" from Bermuda commodities trader Monroe Trout and the cooperation of Rand's estate, Paxton celebrates the outspoken author's 77 years with footage, effects and music depicting the heroine's underexplored life. Too bad that cultism creeps in."

ThanksTrade2tradewell 08:39, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Logan Clements - objectivist

Please stop trying to cover up Logan Clements' objectivism by deleting it from his article. He admits he is an objectivist, it's legitimately part of his article. Nhprman 06:14, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Attempts to move "Objectivism_and_homosexuality".

I've been forced to revert your move attempt for the second time. Please come to the article's talk page to discuss you desire and build some sort of consensus. Thank you. Al 05:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I've weighed in on this subject on the talk page. Take a look! Cheers -- Yossarian 11:22, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Sigh...

Hi Laszlo,

As you know, I've been trying to work out a solution for the title on the Ayn Rand's views on homosexuality page. The most recent post by Alienus has basically stated that he's "writing [me] off," and accusing me of bad faith. It's become increasingly difficult to work with him, and the fact that he has, up to this point, simply dismissed what you say is aggravating and unproductive.

I understand you two have a history, so it would be best if you turn the other cheek in terms of editing the page proper right now. It's just going to lead to revert wars. Please continue to contribute to the discussion, however, as I think there's still hope to get this resolved bloodlessly. It's possible we're all just a bit stressed out, and need to look at this with new eyes.

By the way: a POV tag was added to the page and I assume if anyone moves it, it will be reverted back. If you could discuss this, it'd be a real help.

If this does go on like this, I think an admin should be brought in, as this could go on indefinitely. Thoughts? Things can't be that desperate... --Yossarian 10:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice and sympathy. As much as my ego would love to revert every edit he's every made on Wikipedia right now, I don't think an edit war will help. If an admin does get called in, it looks bad to have sunk to one's opponent's level. But I'm sure as hell not going to be written off. Cheers, --Yossarian 10:59, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Repeated deletions on Pseudoreligion

You've been asked not to delete verifiable content from pseudoreligion to conform to your personal beliefs. Yet, you have done so repeatedly. Please stop edit-warring. If you continue thus, you will be blocked from further editing. As you have been previously blocked three times for past violations, you should be well aware that such behavior is not appropriate for Wikipedia.--Leflyman^Talk 00:41, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Objectivist

As a Wikipedian that also identifies as an Objectvist, I would like to invte you to contribute to the objectivist wiki which is just getting off the ground. Crazynas 14:29, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Pseudoreligion

I'll take a look, hope you enjoy the wiki, several pages are protected or sProtected (which you can get around be registering) due to vandalism. Let me know on my talk page here if you need anything opened up, or go ahead and start talking here about how we can organize the project. Crazynas 21:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

you are welcome

If you don't know what this is about it is about the walrus picture, I put it there. †Jakken† 01:33, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem

Twas nothing at all. I think I'll sit out on more detailed work on the page, but I may try to redo that intro at some point. Cheers --Yossarian 10:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Staying out

Actually, I'm planning to stay out of any further political discussions on Wikipedia for the moment (aside from finishing up the dictators thing). I'm a little too sensitive for long term efforts. Good luck to you. --Yossarian 04:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

PS: You're quite right, she should be on the list, but I'm afraid I just can't bring myself to argue such an obvious point. All the best. --Y

Rand

Please stop adding Rand to the list without addressing the extensive evidence supplied against her inclusion and without making an attempt to arrive at a consensus on the talk page. Thank you. fi99ig 05:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Please understand that, in this matter, Fi99ig has my support. Al 05:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm...

Why did you take all of the stuff off of your userpage?

RFM

The Mediation Committee has received a request for formal mediation of the dispute relating to Example. As an editor concerned in this dispute, you are invited to participate in the mediation. The process of mediation is voluntary and focuses exclusively on the content issues over which there is disagreement. Please review the request page and the guide to formal mediation, and then indicate in the "party agreement" section whether you agree to participate. Discussion relating to the mediation request is welcome at the case talk page. Thank you, [signature]