User:Wyatts

Personal Information

I am an engineer near Huntsville, Alabama, working at Redstone Arsenal. I have a Ph.D. in engineering.

Interests

• Engineering

• Reliability Engineering
• Systems Engineering

• U.S. Military
• Religion
• Science Fiction

Selected contributions

I don't list everything here, just some pages that I like to check on frequently.

Some New Articles

• Failure rate
• Reliability engineering
• Technology Readiness Level
• Huntsville, Alabama Tornado
• Anderson Hills Tornado
• Severe weather terminology
• Defense Standard
• Slackwater Darter
• National Highway System
• U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
• M-1097 Avenger

Some Article Stubs

• Electric catfish
• Electron Optics
• Electroceramics
• Uintatherium
• Strategic Highway Network

Some Articles Significantly Updated

• Base realignment and closure
• Mean time between failures
• Tornado

Maintenance projects I try to help with on occassion

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - mostly the missing Britannica articles. I occassionally find a missing article that can be researched with a reasonable amount of effort.
• Template:Open task

Articles I plan to work on

• Quality Management System - needs expanding
• Availability - needs to be expanded
• Engineering management - new article needed. Currently just a one liner article.
• Failure - needs to be expanded
• Failure mode - needs to be expanded
• Failure mode and effects analysis - new article needed; redirect FMEA stub.
• Memphis and Charleston Railroad - create stub; see Amazon.com for historical book.
• Physics of failure - new article needed
• Statistical process control - needs major update, and need to rationalize related articles such as quality assurance, quality control, TQM, Quality Management System, etc.
• Reliability model - new article needed
• Maintainability - needs to be expanded
• Maintainability engineering - new article needed
• Redstone Arsenal - needs to be expanded; add pictures of historical sites; missiles; etc.
• Reliability - Several articles related to reliability need to be updated and better cross-linked.
• Reliability - needs to be expanded
• Reliability theory - needs to be expanded

Subpages - primarily used when drafting significant size articles

• User:Wyatts/Samples
• User:Wyatts/Draft_article_A --- U.S. military standard --- COMPLETED ---
• User:Wyatts/Draft_article_B --- Failure rate --- COMPLETED ---
• User:Wyatts/Draft_article_C --- Reliability engineering --- COMPLETED ---

References in Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Forum_for_Encyclopedic_Standards - Thinking about joining
• Wikipedia:tutorial
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Help:Formula
• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:List of images
• Wikipedia:How to write a great article
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:User_page
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:2004 Encyclopedia topics

General comments

I have considered participating in the "Wikipedia Forum for Encyclopedic Standards". Although their intentions are laudable, their methods under discussion seem at odds with the general philosophy of Wikipedia. A traditional encyclopedia earns its reputation and authority by selecting a group of editors and contributors that are identified. These people stand behind their work. Wikipedia is just the opposite. Anyone can (and does) edit a Wikipedia article. The Wikipedia method has many advantages, which I support. However, it is impossible to reference a source that 1) can change in an instant, and 2) has no one who can be truely identified as the editor/author. Yet these are the very strengths of Wikipedia.

I believe that Wikipedia should strive to complement traditional encyclopedias, but not try to act like one of them with boards of editors, etc. Wikipedia may not be a "referenceable" encyclopedia, but it is still very useful and can point people to valid references when needed.