Leonard G.

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for the week ofApril 25^th, 2010
SFOBB Eastern Span replacement progress, April 20, 2010

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San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Bay Area
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Leonard G. is a member of WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of bridges on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us.

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The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

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**Senior Editor**
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Editor Star.

For your high quality photos and breath-taking panoramas, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. •Zhatt• 17:39, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

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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
Table bridge
7 September 2006
(with User:Carlos0253)
Polygraph (duplicating device)
5 November 2008
Argentinian Corvette ARA Uruguay
2 January 2009

A recent complete minor article
Admiral Julián Irízar
A translation from the Spanish article

A recent complete article
ARA Uruguay
a Did you know...? featured article

A recent complete minor article
Polygraph (duplicating device),
a Did you know...? featured article

A recently refined and completed major article
Hayward Fault Zone

A recent complete article - Chinese copy method, now (without illustrations) here

A recent stub (a work in progress) - Trains in art

A recent complete minor article
Utah Road 400
with related creation of the minor articles Cottonwood Canyon, Utah and Grosvenor Arch and contributions to Kodachrome Basin State Park

A recent complete minor article
Solar tracker

A featured article
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).