User:Chetvorno


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I live near Seattle, in Washington state, on the west coast of the USA. I concentrate on writing and improving articles in my areas of interest: electronics, physics, horology, history of technology, pacifism, and international folk dance. I specialize in making STEM articles more understandable for the general reader, as I feel WP has a problem in this area. Another interest is combating pseudoscience in WP articles.

"Those who tell the stories rule society" - Plato

'''Wikipedia has become a gatekeeper of the stories that the world tells itself, and believes. We have a responsibility to make sure these are true stories (facts) and not false stories (misinformation, disinformation, fake news, propaganda, bigotry, slander, rumors, myths, pseudoscience). Because the rest of social media has chosen a business model in which their income depends on users spreading false stories.'''

Facebook's corporate slogan: "Move fast and break things" Katharine Mahar, director WMF: "We move slow and build things"

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Useful links

 * WP:Administrator intervention against vandalism
 * WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS
 * WP:UNDUE "If you can prove a theory that few or none currently believe, Wikipedia is not the place to present such a proof."
 * WP:Vague introductions
 * WP:Manual of Style/Words to watch
 * User:Jytdog/How Very good orientation page for new users, focusing on how editors think and work, and how WP differs from other social media
 * User:Forbes72/doi why DOI is the best document identifier for scientific citations.  Citer DOI citation template tool.
 * WP:Responding to a failure to discuss
 * WP:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
 * WP:Template index/User talk namespace
 * WP:MANDY "Well, he would say that, wouldn't he" We don't have to give liars or advocates of false theories a say just because the other side has a say.
 * Hitchens' razor "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
 * WP:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat Great essay on all the different arguments that pseudoscience advocates make for why their theory should be included in Wikipedia, and the best responses.

Wikipedia is too technical

 * Wikipedia's science articles are elitist, 2017, Vice
 * 'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics, 2017, SlashDot
 * Why are some Wikipedia articles so long? 2017, Atlantic
 * You're not smart enough to read Wikipedia, Popkin, 2012, NBC
 * Why are Wikipedia articles so difficult to understand?, Quora
 * What Wikipedia edits can tell us about the politicization of science, 2015, WaPost
 * The political controversy of Wikipedia science articles, 2017, SlashDot
 * WP:Don't be a smartypants
 * WP:Make technical articles accessible

Wikipedia love and hate

 * Wikipedia@20
 * Wikipediocracy The main website dedicated to criticism of Wikipedia. Has many specific examples of WP biases, errors, bureaucratic unfairness and corruption
 * Wikipedia is the last best place on the Internet, 2017, Wired
 * As a mob attacked the capitol, a crowd built Wikipedia, 2021, FastCompany
 * 200,000 volunteers have become the fact checkers of the Internet, 2018, Quartz
 * How Wikipedia became the world's largest encyclopedia
 * Buzzfeed article on Fram affair
 * Progress Without Profit: Don’t count Wikipedia out, 2021, Daily Trojan
 * The internet should be more like Wikipedia, 2021, Built-In
 * Wikipedia is badly biased, Larry Sanger He believes WP should not have adopted WP:FALSEBALANCE
 * Wikipedia is not so great, and what can be done about it, 2022, EffectiveAltruism
 * Wikipedia's moment of truth, July 2023, NYT Magazine Does AI mean the death of Wikipedia?

Copyright stuff

 * Cornell copyright page Works published before 1923, and before 1963 if the copyright is not renewed, are PD. All works 1964 or later automatically had their copyrights renewed.    A 1961 study showed that only 7% of book copyrights are renewed.
 * How to investigate the copyright status of a work, US Copyright Office
 * How can I tell whether a book can go online, The Online Books Page
 * US Copyright renewal and registration records, The Online Book Page

To do

 * Sovereign state How many?
 * War tuba
 * Magnet families, manufacturing
 * Windbelt redefine as meteorological phenomenon
 * Glow discharge description of regions
 * Screw (simple machine) math
 * Electronic oscillator add analysis section, narrow tuning range of crystal
 * Resonance origin in DE, eigenvalues
 * linear circuit math
 * Cathode ray properties
 * Schrodinger's cat
 * Triode eqs, Fountains Audion ≠ triode
 * Audion cleanup, rewrite, how it works
 * Grid-leak detector rewrite
 * Dielectric resonator diagrams
 * Serial killer add demographics
 * Lee De Forest his flaws
 * Horn loudspeaker Add more about early loudspeakers and reentrant public address horn
 * Moving iron speaker describe how it works, differential version, and derive distortion
 * Reductio ad absurdum society must have laws example
 * Wireless power Rewrite Atmospheric plasma channel section, far field section
 * State (computer science) erroneous definition
 * Perpetual motion add section on conservative forces to History section
 * Displacement current add example of spherical current flow from Feynman
 * Simple harmonic motion begin with circular motion, not harmonic oscillator
 * Bushing (electrical) rewrite horrible language
 * Alexander Stepanovich Popov‎ negotiate with Fountains to add word "receiver"
 * Electrical length rewrite after long conflict
 * Arc converter negotiate w Glrx to distinguish from spark transmitter, how it works
 * Barkhausen stability criterion add section on limits
 * Crystal radio rewrite history
 * Dual band blade antenna merge w/ blade antenna
 * Amplitude modulation make clear that AM occurs by heterodyning and rewrite math description to clarify
 * Resonant inductive coupling Separate filter and wireless power applications. Remove or resolve Discharger1016's POV on single resonant ckt
 * Tesla coil Remove redundant sections, add "Theory" section, and see if there is room to reintegrate History of the Tesla coil
 * ALLISS Promotional, bullet point ridden
 * Plane wave Re-merge Sinusoidal plane wave, reasons are in my unchallenged post on Talk page

Rename

 * FM transmitter (personal device)
 * Grid-leak detector ?

Articles I have created
Wheel train (horology) | Quartz fiber dosimeter | Lesnoto | Tropanka | Faraday's ice pail experiment | Conformal antenna | Black Box (Jennifer Egan story) | Stackfreed | Passive sign convention | Goldschmidt alternator | Horatio Saint George Anson | Corner reflector antenna | Eugène Ducretet | Two capacitor paradox | FoxBlade

Articles I have rewritten
Verge escapement | Balance wheel | Cavendish experiment | Torsion spring | Glucydur | Elinvar | Gyromax | Torsion pendulum clock | Meter (electronics) | Bob (physics) | Fusee (horology) | Mainspring | Pendulum clock | Repeater (horology) | Ratchet (device) | Barrel (horology) | Mechanical watch | Electrophorus | Electroscope | Stepped Reckoner | Automatic watch | Wilberforce pendulum | Clockwork radio | Induction coil | Simple machine | Parasitic capacitance | Riefler escapement | Remontoire | Anchor escapement | Electrostatic induction | Pin pallet escapement | Bracket clock | Movement (clockwork) | Self-powered equipment | Crystal oven | Electromagnet | Saturation (magnetic) | Oudin coil | Crookes tube | Superconducting magnet | Utility pole | Distribution transformer | Observation | Background Radiation Equivalent Time | Barkhausen Stability Criterion | Kundt's tube | Schuler tuning | Node (physics) | Lecher lines | Mu-metal | Linear circuit | Pendulum |  Cathode ray | Lodestone | Kater's pendulum | Shortt-synchronome clock | Horn antenna | Parabolic antenna | Antenna aperture | RF front end | Antenna feed | Counterpoise (ground system) | Whip antenna | Screw (simple machine)| | Cassegrain antenna | A Perfect Spy | Electric clock |  Optical flat  | Mechanically powered flashlight | Project Sanguine |  Evolved antenna   |  Offset dish antenna  |  Corner reflector  |  T-aerial | Proximity card | Ground plane | Corona ring | Ground dipole | Pravo | Peter Henlein | State (computer science) | Memory refresh | Tesla coil | Attack model | Inclined plane | Motorboating (electronics) | Oersted's law | Pearson-Anson effect | Negative resistance | Wireless power | Dynatron oscillator | Oudin coil | Radio receiver | Crystal detector | Spark gap transmitter | Mast radiator | Radiation resistance | Umbrella antenna | Lens antenna | Permendur | Antenna feed | Suppressor grid | Electronic oscillator

Articles I have made substantial contributions to
Thermal efficiency | Harmonic oscillator | Watch | Escapement | Resonance | Quartz clock | Longcase clock | Crystal oscillator | Resonator | Atmos clock | Clock face | Tuning fork | Church bell | X-ray tube | X-ray | Electrical generator | Dictation machine | Typewriter | Dynamo | Colpitts oscillator | Clockmaker | Pocket watch | Astronomical clock | Striking clock | Complication (horology) | Intermediate frequency | Tesla coil | History of timekeeping devices | LC circuit | Clock | Weighing scale | Weight | Energy level | Double-slit experiment | Pulley | James Lick telescope | Hale telescope | Brownian ratchet | Lantern clock | Electric watch | Tourbillon | Cooper pair | Twin lead | Insulator (electrical) | Dosimeter | Ionizing radiation | Displacement current | Magnet | Coaxial cable | The Roads Must Roll | The Menace from Earth | Space Jockey (short story) | Kachina | Chindi | Rare earth magnet | Neodymium magnet | Alnico | Ferromagnetism | Charge conservation | Salisbury screen | Heterodyne | Cat's whisker detector | Crystal radio | Monopole antenna | Omnidirectional antenna | Helical antenna | Transmitter | Doppler effect | Electric bell | Doorbell | Magnetic domain | Electronic oscillator | Finite state machine | DSL modem | Semiconductor memory | Reductio ad absurdam | Buridan's ass | Interrupt | Megaphone | Curtain array | Inductor | Triode | AM broadcasting | Relaxation oscillator