User:Yaf

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Yaf is just Yet another fellow who is a Wikipedian.

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." (Samuel Adams, 1777)

1 Contributions
2 Real Life
- 2.1 Favorite authors
3 Controversy
- 3.1 User m1911
4 Barnstar

[edit] Contributions

See Yaf's Contributions
See Yaf's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool.

[edit] First starts

[edit] Major edits

plus others, dealing with a wide range of topics.

[edit] Photos

Winchester Model 1912 12-gauge hammerless pump-action shotgun manufactured in 1948

Marlin Model 60 22LR rifle manufactured in 1982

Kel-Tec P-32 .32 ACP semi-automatic pistol, blued finish

Example of Parkerized 45 ACP semi-automatic pistol

A 32 ACP FMJ cartridge, a blued finish supplemental chamber in .303 British with a 32 ACP FMJ cartridge inserted, and a .303 British 180g FMJ cartridge (left to right)

[edit] Real Life

I live in the South East US. I am married, and my wife and I have one son who is a college student.

I work in engineering during the day (aerospace, systems engineering, and communication system modeling).

By night, I often do engineering consulting (RF circuits, antennas, filters, hardware design, and electromagnetics modeling).

My degrees are in electrical engineering: BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D.

I hold one US patent, and have three others pending.

I have published and contributed to technical conference papers, mostly for SPIE and IEEE conferences.

My favorite operating system is Linux (Fedora Core), but I also use Windows (in various flavors). Most of my computers are dual-boot (Linux/Windows.)

I build all my own computers for my engineering consulting business (except for laptops).

My research interests include topics in error correction coding, cryptography, numerical analysis, and electromagnetic propagation, and defense-related topics, among many other interests.

[edit] Favorite authors

Boston T. Party (Kenneth W. Royce), Ayn Rand, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein

[edit] Controversy

One of my images submitted above for use in illustrating articles on firearms was used in a rather controversial user box by another editor. The following documents the code, and image, that created such controversy:

[edit] User m1911

This user thinks the m1911 is God's gun.

And, no, I do NOT subscribe to this belief.

This userbox was deleted under the speedy-deletion criterion on February 17, 2006, after only 2 days into the request for discussion, for being too divisive. Yet, it simply expressed in a user box the non-political (albeit controversial) point first stated as:

"The 1911 was the design given by God to us through John M. Browning that represents the epitome of what a killing tool needs to be. It was true in 1911 and is true now." —Colonel Robert J. Coates, USMC

This quote is also contained in the M1911 article.

As best I can tell, this speedy-deletion was based upon a heightened cultural sensitivity issue among certain non-American editors, with many American editors seeing no problem, but with many editors in countries where handguns are banned feeling that it was in some way truly and inherently evil. Tolerance should be the policy of Wikipedia, with speedy-deletions reserved for those items which are truly evil. A picture of a legal handgun, with an oblique reference to a famous quote by an American warrior is not evil. Insensitive, yes, but not evil.