User:Leonard G.

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Favorite quotes:

 * "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry"[1]
 * "[Leonard], you worry too much! " [2]
 * "Don't worry - be happy." [3]
 * "What, me worry? "[4]
 * "Don't worry, my dog found the chainsaw "[5]


 * 1) William F. Buckley, Jr.
 * 2) Grandmaster Byong Hong Yu, my taekwando master.
 * 3) Meher Baba - spiritual leader of my late and beloved next door neighbors.
 * 4) Alfred E. Neuman - the gapped toothed mascot of Mad Magazine, a periodical reflective of (and reenforcing) the cultural reaction against post-war conformity that ultimately enabled the massive protests against the Viet Nam War and the downfall of United States Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson and (as a consequence of the Watergate scandal and the bombing of Cambodia) Richard Millhouse Nixon.
 * 5) From the animated film Lilo & Stitch

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Concerning Deletionists
Deletionists not only want to delete articles, now they want to hide the remnants of evidence of the inappropriateness of such deletions, as evidenced by their attempts to delete the article Deletionpedia (see Talk:Deletionpedia. I have little understanding of what motivates deletionists but I have seen indications of their personalities (masked in high mindedness) that are somewhat disturbing, and even often reflected in their self-important or threatening user names. My personal opinion is that they do it for the sport of it, not for any realistic sense of "improvement" to WP. If they were at all consistent they would go after the hundreds of Pokemon articles, but probably would not want to stir up that hornets' nest. Instead they pick on minor but difficult to substantiate articles such as Chinese copy method.

Topics of interest and some knowledge

 * Aviation - light aircraft and sailplanes.
 * Battery electric automobiles and light trucks and their construction and conversion from ICE vehicles.
 * Energy conservation and alternative sources.
 * Mount Diablo (in central CA).
 * Photovoltaic on-grid (net metering) household solar power.
 * Roof water recovery and storage for two season climate regions.
 * Top bar hives for beekeeping in developed countries.
 * U.S. Naval aircraft of the 1950's and 1960's. Have historic info and pictures.

I am willing to take and submit requested photographs in my area (greater San Francisco Bay area and Contra Costa county).

Major articles created or with substantial expansion or rewrite

 * Bridge (most of my contributed content is now in derived articles - this is now a master index)
 * Cyclotron
 * Electric vehicle conversion - Almost all of the article content has been moved to this Wikibook
 * Ford Ranger EV
 * Haptic
 * Hayward Fault Zone
 * Hydrogen economy
 * Movie projector
 * Projection booth
 * Riverboat
 * Sand casting (started and subsequently substantially expanded by other editors)
 * Secular icon
 * Stereography (subsequently divided by others, creating also Anaglyph image and content for Stereoscope)
 * Synchrotron
 * San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Western span retrofit)
 * Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a division by others of content from San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Minor articles created or enhanced with substantial expansion or rewrite

 * Africanized bee
 * Alluvial plain
 * Anchor windlass
 * Art game
 * Athabasca Glacier
 * Bell tower
 * Bi-metal (now largely in Bi-metallic strip)
 * Box truss
 * Break action
 * Campanile
 * Centrifugal casting
 * City car
 * Cloisonné
 * Contact print
 * Continuous-rod warhead
 * Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
 * Crookes tube
 * Diorama
 * Diving bell
 * Dry dock
 * Earthquake warning system
 * Enlarger
 * Eyebar
 * Ferry slip (Barge slip)
 * Fireboat
 * Gigapixel image
 * Grosvenor Arch
 * Grape joke
 * Horses in art
 * Hummer H2
 * Template:HoneybeeArticles
 * Imperial guardian lions
 * Imperial roof decoration
 * Isochron dating
 * Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
 * Kinoscope
 * Locomotives in art
 * Linear particle accelerator
 * Linoleum
 * List of honeybee articles and its associated template
 * Machine Age
 * Pipeline video inspection
 * Polygraph (duplicating device)
 * Pontoon
 * Radar
 * Reflector sight
 * Magnetron
 * Mascaron (architecture)
 * Mass flow sensor
 * Meridian Gate
 * Model yachting
 * Neighborhood electric vehicle
 * Oil refinery
 * Orgasmatron
 * Parkfield, California
 * Parkfield earthquake (an article split from the above)
 * Partial zero-emissions vehicle
 * Personal weapon
 * Pressure gauge
 * Radiation damage
 * Repeating rifle
 * Samuel Beckett Bridge
 * San Francisco War Memorial Opera House (with composite image)
 * Savo Island
 * Side-spar cable-stayed bridge
 * Semi-submersible
 * Sensor
 * Slotted waveguide
 * Slow search
 * Snow coach
 * Stairway
 * Steam clock
 * Stressed ribbon bridge
 * Suisun Bay
 * Sundowner (three meanings added)
 * Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle
 * Superstate
 * Temple of Bel
 * Template:HoneybeeArticles
 * The Immoral Mr. Teas
 * Thermostat
 * Torque converter
 * Top bar hive
 * Trim package (automobile)
 * Vacuum casting
 * Vierendeel bridge
 * Worker bee
 * Weigh lock
 * Wet sub
 * Wrench

Works in progress:

 * Offline translation of french WP barometer article to replace barometer
 * Household seismic safety
 * Seismic retrofit

Major contributions:

 * Grand Staircase, with images
 * Haptic
 * Mount Diablo
 * Naval architecture (add sections: Seakeeping, Habitability, Range, Style)
 * Perpetual war
 * San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (seismic refits and rebuilding)
 * Silver Bridge (extensive copyedit and added material)
 * Suspension bridge
 * Tripartite Pact
 * Unicameralism

Substantial article enhancements:

 * Balboa Park Station (Architecture noted)
 * California government and politics
 * California mission
 * Die (manufacturing)
 * For Whom the Bell Tolls
 * Forbidden Planet
 * Hummer H2
 * Klystron
 * Loge (Theater seating)
 * Luck
 * Military engineer
 * Petard
 * Prius
 * Regulatory capture
 * Regulatory capture
 * Reamer
 * Reflux
 * San Francisco Bay Area (Terrains, Landforms, Earthquake Faults, Earthquakes, Living expenses)
 * Seismometer
 * Slip (aerodynamic)
 * Transamerica Pyramid
 * DaimlerChrysler smart
 * Qilin

Disambiguation enhancements:

 * Loge (theater seating)
 * Slip (woman's clothing, ceramics, aeronautics)
 * Sundowner (vehicle, herder, resthome resident)

Image with associated text contributions to the following articles:

 * 9 O'Clock Gun
 * Anchor windlass
 * Ariel Atom
 * Beaux Arts (architecture)
 * Beijing opera
 * Bridge
 * Brooklyn Bridge
 * Bucksport (town), Maine
 * Caboose
 * Caisson (engineering)
 * Capstan (nautical)
 * Catherine Palace
 * Carex (commons image references)
 * Central Park
 * Chongqing
 * Cloisonné
 * Crookes tube
 * Diana (goddess)
 * Francis P. Duffy
 * De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (floatplane image)
 * Dragon dance
 * Electric vehicle conversion
 * Enlarger
 * Erie canal Locks and bridges
 * Ferris wheel
 * Ferry slip
 * Filoli (Garden image)
 * Fireboat
 * Forbidden City
 * Fort Knox, Maine
 * Funicular
 * Gerrymander (PD map)
 * Golden Gate Park (North windmill)
 * Great Hall of the People
 * Great Wall of China
 * Greek Revival
 * Great Wall of China
 * Hydrofoil
 * Imperial roof decoration
 * Jin Mao Building
 * Kiel canal
 * Kodachrome Basin State Park
 * Library
 * Lift bridge
 * Manhattan Bridge
 * Marble sculpture (Origin and qualities, The West Wind by Gould)
 * Masonry
 * Meridian Gate
 * Movie projector
 * Monument to the People's Heroes
 * Monterey, California
 * Monterey Bay Aquarium
 * Moon bridge
 * Mystic Seaport
 * Navajo Bridge
 * Nian
 * Oriental Pearl Tower
 * Painted Desert, Arizona
 * Parkfield earthquake (PD maps)
 * Peace Hotel
 * Personal weapon (reproduction weapons at the Great Wall)
 * Peterhof
 * Plate girder bridge
 * Platybelodon
 * Poison Oak
 * Pomona
 * Postmodern architecture (A too eclectic example)
 * Prenocephale
 * Pudong
 * Qilin
 * Riverboat (Six types of river craft and a cruise ship diagram)
 * Robert Fleming Gourlay
 * Rocky Mountaineer (coach and train images)
 * San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (various images)
 * San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
 * Seismic retrofit
 * Shanghai
 * Shay locomotive
 * Simple suspension bridge
 * Solar tracker
 * Stainless steel
 * Stereoscopy
 * Streamline Moderne (S.F. Maritime Museum, 1937)
 * Sundial Bridge (using third party contributed pictures)
 * Sulfur (Pile prepared for loading aboard ship)
 * Surface supplied diving
 * Tachymeter (enhanced existing image)
 * Three Gorges Dam
 * Tiananmen Square
 * Tiananmen Gate
 * USS Arizona Memorial (PD image)
 * Valkyrie (equestrian statue of a valkyrie)
 * Vancouver
 * Vermilion Cliffs
 * VIA Rail (Locomotives, dining car interior)
 * Western Skunk Cabbage
 * Whaleboat
 * Williamsburg Bridge
 * Wind farm
 * Wrightspeed X1
 * Wuhan
 * Zen garden

Minor contributions

 * Adjustable spanner (Proper use)
 * Beekeeping leading practices (Fall requeening, managing in africanized areas)
 * Coalinga, California (etemology)
 * Disruptive technology (High performance replacement examples)
 * Golden Gate Bridge (Fort Point, movies)
 * Helper, Utah (etemology, map)
 * Mazda B-Series (North America) (Sundowner model noted)
 * Parachute, Colorado (etemology)
 * Santa Barbara Channel (Get Oil Out)
 * Sutro tower (functionality, aesthetics)

Text added to image descriptions
Image:Forbidden_Planet_poster.jpg

Quotation contributions:

 * Luck
 * Jesse Unruh
 * Bill Clinton

Featured selected images gallery by week
 (Images include those uploaded directly to Commons, but all have been incorporated into English Wikipedia articles)