User talk:Buridan

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Be Bold!

Sam Spade (talk · contribs) 14:43, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for encouraging boldness. Since you invited contact, I am so doing. Usually I would just leave my comments on the article page itself. I reverted a section of the Political Science article, as well as left a message regards to your comment on the Talk:Political science discussion. You are free to offer rebuttal. --Mikerussell 05:53, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I didn't actually say be bold, i just said we need to fix the political science article. i rebutted. --Buridan 18:08, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Lambda Rail

I noticed you did all the work on the National LambdaRail page. Is this the same thing as the network on the Lambda rail network page? SDC 03:22, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

strange, it seems to be my text on both pages more or less, but i could swear that i did not make the first, and that it should probably point toward the second.--Buridan 11:20, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Go Hokies!

...from a former Political Science student of Virginia Tech. - Caponer 06:55, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blogs

I see that you've added some content on blogs while on Wikipedia. I thought, therefore, there was a chance you would be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Blogging. Phil Sandifer 17:50, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

HFHI

Hi, I'm curious, what's the rationale behind adding Habitat for Humanity International to Category:Humanists? It doesn't really seem to fit with the rest of the category's contents... — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 01:15, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

International Academy of Humanism

Do you think there is a place for International Academy of Humanism in Wikipedia? It is currently mentioned on 2 Wikipedia pages. --JWSchmidt 23:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

there is no reason not to have even a small page and then see how it goes from there. --Buridan 03:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Humanism

It is not your fault. There is a bug going round which duplicates articles on edits. Fire Fox 13:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Humanism

Hi Buridan. Please see this edit of yours, where you more than doubled the length of the page with duplicate contents. This is why you were being warned, as there was a vandal doing similar things on other pages at the same time. Cheers, [[Sam Korn]] 13:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lettrism

I added {{Not verified}} to a few articles associated w/ psychogeography, neoism, situationalism, lettrism etc., because i felt wikipedia had not adequately verified certain elemnents of those articles which were presented as facts.

My intention was not to just place the tags and then run off. I am starting w/ Sadie Plant (1992). The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age. Routledge. and seeing what can be found. If you know of other sources which might be helpful, or other articles that might be verified at the same time, could you add links to User:EricR/Psychogeography? Any help would be appreciated. EricR 19:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transdisciplinarity

I copied the citation from "Sources" so now it's a footnote in the text as well. The Mittelstrass article is one of several articles in the document (PDF) - in fact, it's near the bottom. It (the Mittelstrass article) is excellent - hope you find time to read it.

"Interdisciplinarity properly understood does not commute between fields and disciplines, and it does not hover above them like an absolute spirit. Instead, it removes disciplinary impasses where these block the development of problems and the corresponding responses of research. Interdisciplinarity is in fact transdisciplinarity." --Mittelstrass

--Smithfarm 06:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blogosphere

Hi - I've made an additional edit to try to provide more clarity and brevity, and left a note on the talk page. --mtz206 16:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sydney Opera House

The image of the opera house was removed by me from the postmodernism page, a move you reverted. I have removed it again pending a reference for its supposed postmodernism. Its own article never mentions it as postmodern and I can't see any postmodernism in it. It seems quite modernist to me, especially the evocation of sails in its design. Srnec 17:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand. I was asking for a reference to its postmodernism. The article on postmodernity seems to differentiate "postmodernity in architecture" from postmodernism. Srnec 16:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:Postmodernism. Srnec 22:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some stuff you might want to know

User:SteveWolfer has requested mediation on a dispute that is taking place between you and him on the List of publications in philosophy talk page. Here's a link to the case page:

Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-07-08 List of Publications in Philosopy - Ayn Rand

--The Prophet Wiz ard of the Cray on Cake 08:30, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anscombe

Thanks for fixing my error. Firefox causes this problem intermittently; I missed it this time. Banno 03:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transdisciplinarity

I hadn't finished, actually. The viewpoint expressed does represent one way of thinking about TD, but there are others.

If you visit the Transdisciplinarity article, you'll see something of a flame - I've challenged the authors to try to make sense and present the information in a coherent way. (I wouldn't have done this if I didn't think the subject is important and these voices need to b heard -- and deserve to be explained.)

--B.

Merge deletion

The merge request was withdrawn. Wikipedia policy requests discussions about moot points to be deleted. So it goes, SteveMc 18:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rand and Philosophical lists

I left some comments here, detailing some sources on the status and non-status of Rand as a philosopher. Please comment and help get this ridiculous back and forth to some proper consensus. - Sam 04:41, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rand and Buridan Deceptive Edit Summaries

Buridan, please do not use deceptive edit summaries as you did on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_philosophers_born_in_the_twentieth_centurypage.

I clearly stated (under my away IP address): Verifiable source of Rand as a philosopher: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761579630 "Ayn Rand (1905-1982), American novelist and philosopher, whose championing of the gifted individual established her as a controversial figure in 20th-century literary and philosophical debate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VERIFIABLE "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that any reader must be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, because Wikipedia does not publish original thought or original research."

So, please provide a reliable verifiable source that she is not a philosopher.

You removed the comment with the deceptive summary: "rv: sockpuppet vandalism" and removed the text. In no way can the above text on a talk page be considered vandalism.

Ayn Rand may not be a "good" philosopher, or a popular one, or agree with anyone else's personal philosophy of live, but it is verifiable that Encarta does list her as a philosopher, and verifiablility is what Wikipedia requires, not "goodness", popularity, or agreement with personal ideas or values. 75.24.182.42 03:44, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

there is a longstanding discussion about this. the issue is whether you represent the minority perspective, as you wish to do and thus promote rand in a very npov way like the encarta entry does, or whether you leave her out like 99% of other encyclopedias do. she is generally described as a writer,author, yadda, yadda. there is no consensus in the world that she is a philosopher. we've discussed it at length.--Buridan 11:23, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

see talk page for rand?

Check now.

Noam Chomsky

Hello, someone on the Noam Chomsky page is vandalizing