User:Anthony Argyriou

I am a Geotechnical Engineer licensed (and practicing) in the State of California. I graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.S. Civil Engineering in 1991.

I live in Alameda, California, and have lived all of my adult life in the East Bay Area.

I dance, primarily vintage ballroom and Irish ceili, but am also familiar with English Country Dance, swing, tango, Irish stepdance, and some ballroom Latin dance.

I am a contributor at Wikipedia, and have made significant contributions to the Wikipedia articles on geotechnical engineering (and related topics), some articles on construction and construction materials, Irish dance, Irish stepdance, articles on Alameda and Oakland, and minor contributions on articles about a few places in Colombia, and various political topics. I expect to contribute to the articles on similar topics here, mostly excepting the political articles.

Articles

Started from Wikipedia articles

I've started the articles on:

• Geotechnical engineering
• Foundation
• Bearing capacity
• Civil engineering
• Colombia
• International System of Units
• year
• star (later deleted because nobody else worked on it)
• calendar
• concrete
• Deep foundation
• Shallow foundation

In all cases, I've imported parts of the Wikipedia articles of the same name.

Started de novo

I've also started:

• mile
• foot (measure)
• metre
• kilometre
• day
• second
• sundial
• litre
• week
• time zone
• black hole
• ampere
• volt
• month
• polygon
• measurement
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• wood
• steradian
• newton
• coulomb
• hertz
• joule
• pascal (unit)
• Celsius

All these, I've started effectively de novo, sometimes using public domain information, primarily from U.S. goverment sources.

Started from my contributions at Wikipedia

I've created the following article concurrently with rewriting the article of the same name in Wikipedia; as I am the author of the text, the article below is not subject to Wikipedia licensing restrictions.

• Proctor compaction test

I've created the following article using (or attempting to) only my contributions to the article of the same name on Wikipedia:

• Irish dance
• pozzolan

Significantly expanded here

I've significantly expanded (or heavily contributed to) the following articles:

• Electoral College
• Communism
• Fractional-reserve banking
• Binary number system
• U.S. States and Territories
• web browser
• watt

For my reference:

• CZ:High priority articles for pilot
• User:Anthony Argyriou/WPbasicarticles1 - copied from Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

I release all my contributions to Citizendium, including those texts which I originally wrote for Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons CC-by-SA 2.5 license.