Talk:Harry Binswanger
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I reverted this edit. The alleged rule that one should NEVER edit one's own biography is far too extreme. The sort of guidelines found in places like Wikipedia:Manual of Style are not absolute. Often failure to adhere to them will lead novices into bad mistakes; more experienced editors can judge when they are looking at an unusual case where they should be deviated from. I like Paul Halmos's advice that you should not break the rules until after you find out what they are. As applied to things like Wikipedia's conventions, I take that to mean you should follow the guidelines at least until you understand the reasons for them, and then of course you will almost always follow them thereafter because you understand the reasons for them.
Now look at this particular edit: Binswanger does not wish to claim to have taught "courses" at Duke University when he was there for only one day, and he doesn't want to call his newsletter a "journal". "Journal" often implies a scholarly journal to which authors submit articles that get peer-reviewed and (often severely) screened by expert editors; I surmise that Binswanger is trying not to claim credit for more than what he does. And as for clear factual errors (e.g. this article once said incorrectly that Binswanger was born in Manhattan) I don't think the guideline on editing one's own biography ever attempted to forbid correcting that sort of thing. Michael Hardy 20:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. A large portion of Binswanger's article was false, so he corrected it. It is not as if he is editing his own article to promote himself. Endlessmike 888 23:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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The article as it stands now is OK as far as it goes, but if it’s going to mention Binswanger’s position on immigration it might mention his far more important position on the Bush administration’s “War on Terrorism” or whatever it’s called now.
He went from admiring Bush – see How to Kill an Idea – to saying don’t vote for Bush (after Leonard Peikoff denounced Bush during the 2004 campaign). — Mark (3 July 2007)
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[edit] First edition?
Of Ayn Rand's ITOE, the article says:
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- the first edition was published in 1979
It is true that the first edition published by a commercial publishing company, whose publications appear in Books in Print and the like, appeared at (about?) that time, but it was previously published as a book by NBI Press in about 1967, and I think copies of that printing can still be found in some libraries. Michael Hardy (talk) 02:45, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
