Talk:Roger MacBride/Archive 1

Archive 1

Ayn Rand

I removed the following, which had been put in at the end of the first body paragraph, after "...went on to be the Libertarian Party candidate for President in 1976,":

Objectivist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand denounced him for plagiarizing her ideas and mixing them with their exact opposite.

It's not that Rand's denunciation of McBride shouldn't necessarily be included in the article. Rather it seemed tacked on in this paragraph, without any kind of contextual support. Did Rand denounce McBride during the '76 presidential campaign, or in response to his candidacy? If not, what were the circumstances? Also, no specification is given as to what McBride's expressed ideas were, and how they amounted to plagiarized/inverted Rand-ism. As it stands, the sentence is just a categorical broadside with no regard to NPOV. --JustDerek 23:48, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Spelling of name

Is this chap's name MacBride or McBride? The Internet seems reasonably split on the matter. I've just added a redirect from McBride, but... Shimgray | talk | 01:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Relation to Rose Wilder Lane

What is an "adopted grandson"? Since you can't adopt a grandchild, does this mean he was he the adopted son of a son or daughter of Rose Wilder Lane? Or did she "adopt" him in a non-legal sense as a grandchild? Schizombie 04:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I assume the former, and "adoptive grandson" would possibly be a better way of phrasing it. This [1] confirms he was her heir; another couple of books refer to her "adopted grandson and heir". Shimgray | talk | 14:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

From the article on Rose Wilder Lane--

"MacBride was the son of one of her editors with whom she formed a close bond when he was a young boy, later admitting she was grooming him to be a future Libertarian thought leader. In addition to being her close friend, he also became her attorney, business manager and ultimately the heir to the 'Little House' series and the multi-million dollar franchise that he built around it after Lane's death. MacBride was the author of the spinoff 'The Rose Years' Little House Series, a multi-part semi-fictional re-telling of Rose's life from the age of seven to nineteen."

So it would appear there was no actual adoptive relationship, but rather that they saw their relationship as comparable to that of grandparent and grandchild.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:01, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Elections

He cast his electoral vote in Virginia in 1972, but the article says he was elected to the Vermont state legislature. Is this accurate, or an error?

Links

I don't know how to correct it, but the Tonie Nathan link should go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonie_Nathan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sajita (talk • contribs) 05:33, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

 Done - link fixed.--JayJasper (talk) 05:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Virginia Assessment Needed

I submitted a request for assessment of this article by WikiProject Virginia a week ago, because I am not sure how to assess the article due to the fact that two other WikiProjects have assessed it as Start-class, while another WikiProject has assessed it as Stub-class. Any assistance from a fellow WikiProject Virginia member in assessing this article would be most appreciated. --TommyBoy (talk) 22:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Assessed as Stub-class for now, if anybody feels that my assessment is too low, they can feel free to upgrade it. --TommyBoy (talk) 21:43, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Your assessment seems accurate, I would also consider it as a Stub-class article —Preceding unsigned comment added by Killerpig (talk • contribs) 21:24, 10 November 2010 (UTC)