My #1 Goal Here: Make Wikipedia Better!

I think Wikipedia needs to be clear enough that someone can learn a new skill or vocation from the technical (physics, engineering, etc) pages on Wikipedia. At a minimum, I think technical Wikipedia pages need to provide enough detail and examples, at a simple-enough level, that an engineer can learn how to do a new type of engineering. That's the intent I have in mind when writing, editing, or adding to Wikipedia pages. I simply want to make them better! I seek to provide edits, examples, and knowledge which are clear, concise, and teach basic principles required in industry to actually use the concepts involved. While recognizing the critical role that academic theory and background provide to an article or field, I also acknowledge that articles which are overly academic, or purely academic, won't help our world progress because no one will know what to actually do with the information. I seek to make technical Wikipedia pages so good that they can become a regular reference for students, designers, and engineers who are trying to understand how to do and apply various physics-based and engineering principles in the real-world, and based on my many years of experience extensively using Wikipedia to teach myself new skills and to solve real-world engineering problems, there is still much to be desired in the Wikipedia pages and a lot of work left to do. Let's work together to make Wikipedia better! ERCaGuy (talk) 21:29, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

About me

Gabriel Staples

I'm an Embedded Software/Firmware Developer in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Personal Website: https://www.ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com
About me: https://www.electricrcaircraftguy.com/2016/07/about-me.html
Personal GitHub pg: https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy
Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent), French (conversational), Arabic (horrible, but I can read & write and make all the sounds! :))
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-staples/ - Please DO follow me!
- Please DO click the "Follow" button on LinkedIn to follow me!
- Please don't try to add me as a connection unless we've had prior, meaningful interaction.
- Ask yourself: "Can Gabriel vouch for my skills?" If not, don't add me, if yes, do.
- As a general rule I don't accept requests from people I don't know well enough to vouch for their skills.
Education:
- B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, USAFA, Distinguished Graduate (top 10%--comparable to Summa Cum Laude at a civilian university)
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, UCCS
- With significant professional experience in Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechatronics, and Software/Programming.

ERCaGuy (talk) 20:28, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

My Wikipedia Contributions

See my contributions to Wikipedia here.

Useful references I use

Help formatting Wikipedia articles: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTTEXTBOOK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thermal_resistance - see discussion at bottom

Scratch space

~~No idea how this "User page" thing works. So I'm trying it out here. ERCaGuy (talk) 16:09, 3 August 2018 (UTC) [<-- this is four tildes "~"x4]~~