User:Leonard G.
for the week ofApril 25th, 2010
SFOBB Eastern Span replacement progress, April 20, 2010

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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]
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Grandmaster Byong Hong Yu, my taekwando master.
- Meher Baba - spiritual leader of my late and beloved next door neighbors.
- 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.
- From the animated film Lilo & Stitch
Did you know... main page featured new articles
- Steam clock
13 April 2006 - subsquently expanded by others - Polygraph (duplicating device)
5 November 2008 - Argentinian Corvette ARA Uruguay
2 January 2009

Admiral Julián Irízar
A translation from the Spanish article

ARA Uruguay
a Did you know...? featured article

Polygraph (duplicating device),
a Did you know...? featured article

Hayward Fault Zone


Utah Road 400

Solar tracker

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(with User:SamuelWantman)
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#Specialized end product units
- Orgasmatron
- Parkfield, California#Geology
- 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#Paleontolgy, 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#Construction sequence
- Tripartite Pact#German declaration of war
- Unicameralism#Unicameralism trends within the States of the United States
Substantial article enhancements:

- Balboa Park Station (Architecture noted)
- California government and politics#Bi-partisan gerrymandering
- California mission#Architectural influence
- Die (manufacturing)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Forbidden Planet
- Hummer H2
- Klystron
- Loge (Theater seating)
- Luck
- Military engineer
- Petard
- Prius#Driving tricks to improve mileage
- Regulatory capture#A modern example
- Regulatory capture#Current concerns
- Reamer
- Reflux#Use in beverage distilation
- San Francisco Bay Area (Terrains, Landforms, Earthquake Faults, Earthquakes, Living expenses)
- Seismometer
- Slip (aerodynamic)
- Transamerica Pyramid
- DaimlerChrysler smart#smart in North America
- 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

- 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#Architecture

- 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#Dam model
- 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
English translations of technical diagrams found on commons
- Sewage treatment process diagram
- Movie projector display sequence
- Prague Astronomical Clock functions
Quotation contributions:
Some more images


Featured selected images gallery by week
(Images include those uploaded directly to Commons, but all have been incorporated into English Wikipedia articles)
2005
Sept 11th
A floatplaneSept 18th
NYC Public LibrarySept 25th
A Shay locomotiveOct 2nd
A Beaux Arts façadeOct 9th
A garden at FiloliOct 16th
Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay AquariumOct 23rd
The customs house at Monterey, CaliforniaOct 30th
A nian at the Ming Dynasty TombsNov 6th
A schematic for electric vehicle conversionNov 13th
A bridge taxononmyNov 20th
Ancient and modern at WuhanDec 4th
Father Duffy monumentDecember 11th
Steam engine modelDecember 18th
A novelty battery electric vehicleDecember 25th
The West Wind, a marble sculpture
2006
January 1st
The West Wind, a marble sculptureJanuary 8th
Reproduction personal weaponsJanuary 15th
A Bogen enlargerJanuary 29th
A Caisson (engineering)February 4thth
A relayFebruary 11th
An inertial switchFebruary 18th
A surface supplied diverFebruary 25th
Cloisonne headressMarch 11th
A step-stone bridgeMarch 19th
View of Mt. Diablo and the Diablo ValleyMarch 26th
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall interiorApril 2nd
A Moon BridgeApril 9th and 16th
Great Wall of ChinaApril 23rd
A Danish offshore wind farmApril 3rd - May 21st
A concert of Tang Dynasty MusicMay 28th
The Navajo BridgesJune 4th
A view of Utah Road 400June 11th
A weigh bridgeJune 18th
Antique snow coachJune 25th
The Vermilion CliffsJuly 2nd
The Rocky MountaineerJuly 9th
An Ariel Atom sports carJuly 16th
Erie Canal locksJuly 23rd
VIA Rail Dining car interiorJuly 30th
Solar tracker headworks detailAugust 13th
Portrait sculpture of Robert Fleming GourlayAugust 20th
A model yachtAugust 27th
Highway 24
Seismic retrofitSeptember 3rd
A California CondorSeptember 10th
Paleoseismology pitSeptember 17th
Paleoseismology surface, annotatedSeptember 24th
Wrightspeed X1 battery electric vehicleOctober 1st
Painted Desert, ArizonaOctober 8th
Sulphur piles at Vancouver, British ColumbiaOctober 15th
Railroad hand carOctober 22nd
Primitive railcarOctober 29th
railcarNovember 5thth
Slotted waveguide antennaNovember 12thth
Gastown
steam clockNovember 19th
Vancouver's
9 O'Clock GunNovember 26th
Fossilized hadrosaur (partial)December 3rd
Kodachrome Basin State ParkDecember 10th
Eyebar detail of a truss bridgeDecember 17th
Laced ties and strutsDecember 24th
Qing dynasty QilinDecember 31th
Grand Canyon Railway locomotive
2007
January 7th
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)January 28th
Fountains at PeterhofFeburary 4th
Chapel at PeterhofFeburary 11th
A music room at PeterhofFeburary 18th
Danish resistance movement armored carFeburary 25th
Terra cotta decorationMarch 4th
Cyclotron magnetMarch 11th – April 8th
Great Wall of China - StorehouseApril 15th
Steering rack in Wrightspeed X1April 27th
Unique grapevine training (Santorini)May 13th
Detail of marble repair, ParthenonMay 20th
Late Cycladic gold ibex sculptureMay 27th
Acropolis of Athens at dawnJune 3rd
Tankship Clipper Lady in drydockJune 17th
Cycladic terra cotta fire dogsJune 24th
Cycladic terra cotta ovenJuly 1st
Volcanic ash cavity castJuly 8th
Happy Hippo amphibious busJuly 15th
United States Military Academy at West PointJuly 22nd
Ruins of Bannerman's Arsenal near West Point, N.Y.July 29th
Terra cotta utilitarian objects from AkrotiriAugust 5th
A lock of the Erie Canal at the Niagara EscarpmentAugust 12th
Case backhoe loader used for pipe transport to an excavated ditchAugust 19th
Crawler-backhoe with a narrow sheepsfoot rollerAugust 26th
Loader-excavator with concrete pipeSeptember 2nd
SkycamHD video suspension unitSeptember 9th
Model showing operation of a ship's capstanSeptember 16th
A stressed ribbon footbridgeSeptember 23rd
Smart Fortwo instrumentsA deck Truss railroad bridge over the Erie Canal October 7th
A capstan on a sailing shipOctober 14th
A Streamline Moderne building (1937)October 21st-28th
Streamline Moderne judge's tower (1937)November 4th
Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National ParkNovember 11th
Lava tube at Lava Beds National MonumentNovember 17th
California's third capitol building at BeneciaRestored California Senate chamber in the Benicia capitol December 9th
Effigy of the Sun God Ah KinDecember 16th
Effigy image of Rain God ChaacDecember 23rd
ZENN neighborhood electric vehicleDecember 30th
ZENN neighborhood electric vehicle
2008
January 6th
Dynasty EV neighborhood electric vehicleJanuary 13th
Dynasty EV (utility version)January 20th
Meridian Gate of the Forbidden CityJanuary 27th
Gridiron pendulum diagramFebruary 3rd
Radio control escapement (used ca. 1950-65)February 10th
Imperial guardian lion (ca. 1886-1902)February 17th
Imperial guardian lion (cub)February 24th
Dynasty NEV utility modelMarch 2nd
Ariel Atom front suspensionMarch 9th
Acropolis of AthensMarch 16th
Toxicodendron diversilobumMarch 23rd
model yachts racingMarch 30th
Cloisonné work in progressApril 6th
Kiel canal North Sea locksApril 13th
Stainless steel art deco sculptureApril 20th
An electric vehicle conversionMay 4thth
San Francisco's fireboat Phoenix- May 11thth Anaglyph image stereogram 3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly.
May 11thth
Anaglyph image stereogram3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly.
- May 18thth Monochrome anaglyph image 3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly.
May 18thth
Monochrome anaglyph image3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly.
May 25th
Cyclotron "Dees"May 31st
Trolley bus pole headworksJune 8th
Trolley bus poles and pull-ropesJune 15th
Dragon Dance at ChongqingJune 22nd
Dragon Dance costume head
Tool for clutch installation
San Francisco City Hall keystone with mascaron
Seismic retrofit of a dormatory
Seismic retrofit of a parking structure
Hobart Building , San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences, a green museum
Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici
Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Interior stairs of San Francisco City Hall
Sonora, a shay locomotive
Wrightspeed X1 technical view
Stamp mill (Californian type)
The green roof of the California Academy of Sciences
Stamp mill details (Californian type)
Uluru at dawn
Uluru-Kata_Tjuta N.P.(enhanced image)
Southern Cassowary (enhanced image)
Tiger Quoll in Tasmania
2009
January 4th
Casino in Christchurch, TasmaniaJanuary 11th
Jet bridge in Adelaide, AustrailiaJanuary 18th
Containership Zrin in San Francisco Bay,January 26th
Sheep shearer's moccasins, New ZealandFebruary 1st
Transamerica Pyramid from Treasure IslandFebruary 8th
Panorama of San Francisco from Treasure IslandFebruary 15th
Embarcadero Center (highlighted)
Railway Barge slip headworks
Railway Barge slip headworks
Submarine Escape Training Tower
Face of Brüggen Glacier
2010
January 3rd, 2010
Puente de la Mujer,January 12th, 2010
Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland_Bay_BridgeJanuary 18th, 2010
La Cueca youth dance group