The article is dreadful.
In the lead, it asserts:
QUOTE(Ayn Rand article)
She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism and statism,[2][3] including fascism, communism, and the welfare state.
Ayn Rand opposes that trinity of evils...
Slim's version is far more satisfactory, I don't know if she wrote it, but it should be restored anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin/Ayn_RandQUOTE(Slim's version of the Ayn Rand leading paragraph)
Ayn Rand (IPA: /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She wrote the best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and developed the philosophical system known as objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1925. She based some of her writings on her personal experiences and was a fierce opponent of communism.
She worked as a screen-writer until 1932, when her first play was produced in Hollywood and Broadway. Her first successful novel was The Fountainhead, published in 1943, and her best-known work was the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957.
Her political philosophy, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasizes individualism, limited government, and the constitutional protection of the right to life, liberty, and property. She promoted the concept of the hero standing against the mob, amid derisive depictions of trade unions, socialism, and egalitarianism, arguing that rational self-interest, properly understood, is the true standard of morality and that altruism is profoundly immoral.[1]
She has attracted a following, mainly in America, where her views have influenced a number of public figures.[2] Within academia, her philosophical work has earned either no attention or has been criticized for its allegedly derivative nature,[3] a lack of rigor, and a limited understanding of the issues she wrote about,[4] though an increasing interest in her writing saw the philosophy department of the University of Texas at Austin establish a fellowship in her name in 2001.[5]