User:Chetvorno

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 1 month and 23 days.

This user is one of the 1500 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

The English Wikipedia currently has 6,817,750 articles

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
Through no desire of our own, Wikipedia is becoming a gatekeeper of the stories that the world tells itself, and believes. We have a heavy responsibility to make sure these are true stories (facts) and not false stories (misinformation, fake news, disinformation, 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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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[edit]

Wikipedia love and hate[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

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