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Welcome ... I'm a professional engineer/amateur historian living in Maryland. I have a pretty wide variety of interests -- many of which involve travel in one form or another -- but here on Wikipedia I mostly devote my energy to articles about the history and geography of the railroads and engineering. I also enjoy cooking!
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Like other users such as User:Antandrus, I enjoy working on significant but little-known topics ... subjects not likely to receive much attention on Wikipedia otherwise.
My background is four decades of engineering and project/program management experience in both the public and private sectors as well as operating my own engineering business and affiliated teaching experiences in engineering, project management and project accounting.
I am astonished at this thing called Wiki... and recommend you read this wiki page or the missing manual to grasp some of the breath of this as a body of knowledge. As its literature notes, they are here to build an encyclopedia. See also the material on making technical articles understandable.
The policy of the wiki and its objectives, Wikipedia:Principles and its Neutral Point of View objective, or NPOV as well as discussion on public domain issues; Wikipedia:Non-free content,Permission examples as well as general PD template and US Government PD templates.
In some cases these new articles involve reporting on specific very technical reports issued by US Governmental and occasionally State/Local agencies ... no existing guidelines are available to use in developing these type of articles/pages... so I have embarked upon developing some templates.. using this help page for templates... if one gets "stuck" then deploy {{Helpme}} on your talk page and ask for the help you require immediately below it.
For Wiki markup specifics, help on links ... For naming conventions
As I have learned in the past few years working on wiki, there is a lot of duplication. This is true in the case of template material and guidance for citations and sources. This Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles is a very good overview and set of examples. For more help on citations also citing sources ... and templates for citing journals ... as well as for templates and documentation ...see also .. [http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Template:Main#.22For_more_details_on_.E2.80.A6.2C_see_.E2.80.A6.22 "main article" "see also" templates] ... for clarifying material see Disambiguation ... for articles requiring paid subscriptions such Ancestry.com
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: Empty citation (help)for US agencies use .. * {{USGovernment}} place this in the reference section ... see Federal law enforcement in the United States as an example ...
Additional citation direction ....if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
For articles I have issues with... I can add this as a comment inside of double brackets ..
"refimprove section|date=mydate" or [citation needed] ... for lack of neutrality or factual basis ... Template:Lopsided or this [unbalanced opinion]
For editing out old texts with embedded carriage returns ...
As part of my efforts.. I have created various subpages as draft documents while put all the material together rather than tie up an actual wiki page... It is not possible to make a redirect to a special page, or to create normal pages beginning with the "Special:" prefix. You can see them if you scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on user subpages...
I also am working on drafts using the wiki sandbox(es) ... click on them above to see more ... enjoy!...
This is a listing of all my recent contributions.
I could not have done this without archival efforts by others....
I am researching the property acquisitions for the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line RR in the period of 1869 thru 1871.
As a retired DOT professional.. I am interested in upgrading my former department's various wiki pages to add more info... They are missing program data, history,etc. and could be enhanced to match that of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA as an example ... More on this when I get into various components on the subject of risk.. Particularly, issues to do with engineering and project management in a regulatory context, i.e. United States administrative law and naming conventions for public agencies ... I also plan to add material on the agency projects ...
I am interested in supporting Federal programs that engage in the design and construction of mega-projects and infrastructure as a Wikipedian in Residence]These programs serve the interests of the American people.. sometimes we meet their expectations and sometimes we don't but nonetheless I seek to preserve the history of these programs and their lessons learned. I encourage these programs to seek out Wikipedians to develop the material on these programs and make them accessible to the public. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page if there is an interest...
As a retired public agency employee and "unpaid" Wikipedia editor, I have a conflict of interest in writing about some agency programs. I also possess significant knowledge and experience with agency operations and I wish to edit responsibly. Therefore, I will follow Wikipedia policies and best practices scrupulously. I will disclosing my interest on their user pages and on the talk page of the article in question, and to request the views of other editors and if necessary I will make suggestions on the relevant talk page.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Office_of_the_Federal_Register, Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations
Administrative Conference of the United States and their external site... Incorporation by Reference in an Open Government Age.
Office of Management and Budget , Category:United States Office of Management and Budget, Baseline (budgeting), Issuance of OMB’s “Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices”
Clinger–Cohen Act The Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996 requires agencies to use a disciplined Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process to acquire, use, maintain and dispose of information technology (IT). It also encourages the use of performance- and results-based management of these initiatives. Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Government procurement in the United States ... this last one needs a lot of work .... Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Government Accountability Office
List of U.S. Department of Defense agencies
United States Department of Energy , org charts ,DOE Program and Staff Offices
United States Forest Service as well as the amazing..List of legislation governing the United States Forest Service good templates for use... defining new ones for engineering and construction ...
Bureau of Land Management , United States Bureau of Reclamation,
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA ..Policy & Guidance ... plus a history of risk assessment at EPA! ... and more guidance
See COI statement above... NARA materials available... See also this discussion on copyrighting by Federal contractors such as FTA PMOs. This the wikisource materials on FTA. Wiki Commons [ site id] as well.
Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railway Administration, Interstate Commerce Commission.
Last but not least is the United States Railroad Administration, one of the few instances of nationalization of such a scale in US history ...
Pages I am planning to work on...
working on developing user boxes.. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Transportation
Poor, Henry V (1860). "Gettysburg Railroad". History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (Google Books). New York: John H. Schultz and Co. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
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Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.