User:Wyatts
Goodbye, Wikipedia!
In case anybody wonders, I wanted to leave a note explaining why I left Wikipedia. First, I want to make clear that I didn't get mad or feel mistreated in any way. To the contrary, my experience with other editors has always been positive. I think Wikipedia is a great idea, and I tried to make some positive contributions with a few articles. Wikipedia has already achieved critical mass, and I this its success is assured. Although the Wikipedia community is great, I am the type of person who needs more structure in my activities. The total freedom to edit is a Wikipedia strength, but is not for me personnally.
I wish Wikipedia every success and look forward to seeing the one million article milestone soon.
--Wyatts 18:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
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 (United States)
- Defense Standard
- Slackwater Darter
- National Highway System
- U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
- M-1097 Avenger
Some Article Stubs
Some Articles Significantly Updated
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:Public domain resources
- Wikipedia:Forum_for_Encyclopedic_Standards
- 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 am becoming increasingly concerned about the excessive control over certain articles/pages/processes by some users. I am also concerned about the failure to effectively control disruptive behavior.