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Dicklyon

Joined 1 February 2006
This user is one of the 100 most active English Wikipedians of all time.
This editor is Supreme Gom, the Most Exalted Togneme of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to keep the floor plan of The Great Library of Alecyclopedias, including its cardboard carrying tube.
Dick Lyon, in the Long Room of the Trinity College, Dublin, library, admiring Brian Boru's harp, 2017

Hi, I'm Dick Lyon. I am a research scientist/engineer in Silicon Valley, California. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since May, 2005.

Some of my work outside Wikipedia is linked on my ancient techie home page dicklyon.com. More recent research pubs are found here. And don't forget my always-popular Otis King pages, from 1997 (the contact phone numbers there are hopelessly out of date, but I've lost the formula for how to update the site; some of the comments about being on a modem line are also a bit quaint).

And now I'm an author; so buy my book (or see my book blog to access a free online copy) if you're interested in Human and Machine Hearing.

My contributions are mostly related to photography, photometry, color, electronics, and signal processing. And in recent years, mostly photos and style gnoming. And creeks.

Thanks

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I just noticed that I've received about twice as many WP:THANKs as I've given, so I'm going to try to be more appreciative going forward, and give more. Dicklyon (talk) 16:03, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm particularly grateful whenever someone reverts a mistake I made, so I always thank those! Dicklyon (talk) 23:30, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

I've reduced the discrepancy to more like 4:3 in the last year. That feels better. Dicklyon (talk) 09:20, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Articles created

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People bios

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Technical stuff

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Creeks and other bodies of water

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Other stuff

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Pictures added

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Here I collect most of the pictures I've uploaded, mostly my own, but including some public domain images and photos licensed by a few friends.

I uploaded over 100 photos in 2017, and well over 100 in 2018, about 300 in 2019, and somewhat fewer in 2020 and 2021 with reduced travel. Hundreds more from several big trips in 2022 and 2023. Now a few from 2024 (including a few 2024 uploads of older shots).

2024

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Silverband Falls
Milsons Point ferry wharf
Milsons Point
Milsons Point
Luna Park Sydney
Berowra Creek
Lavender Bay, New South Wales
White Bay Cruise Terminal
Maar
Western Refining

2023 back in the USA

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2023 down under

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Pyrmont and the Inner West

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Royal Edward Victualling Yard
Jones Bay Wharf
Glebe and Wentworth Park railway viaducts
Glebe and Wentworth Park railway viaducts
Sydney sandstone
Anzac Bridge

Manly

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Manly Art Gallery and Museum

New Zealand

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Lake Arapuni

Back in Sydney

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Pacific Adventure
Sydney Football Stadium (2022)

Cairns, Queensland

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Trinity Inlet

Hobart, Tasmania

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St David's Park
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2022

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December, Sydney, New South Wales

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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The Rocks, New South Wales
Harbourside Shopping Centre

July/August Copenhagen/Paris trip

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Kronborg
Humlebæk
Kongens Nytorv
Copenhagen Airport

Aerials from this trip

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Middelgrunden wind farm; Middelgrunden (Øresund)
Sprogø

Southern Africa safari and Cape Town

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Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport
Bo-Kaap
Sea Point
Table Bay

Aerials from Africa trip

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Other 2022 uploads

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Lawrence Expressway
Palace of the Governors
Santa Fe Plaza
Sun Bowl stadium

People

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R.I.P.

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Some of my dead friends and relatives.

More people

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Photography and optics

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Photometry and colorimetry

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Electronics and signal processing

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Panorama of the Very Large Array, New Mexico, December 2017

Math, science, engineering

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Creeks, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, bays

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Trinity Inlet
Colorado River Aqueduct
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Whitewater River (California)
Aerial view of the Yampa River in northern Colorado, November 2017
Panorama of the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct, December 2016
Echo Canyon Reservoir State Wildlife Area

Places

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The Rocks, New South Wales
Harbourside Shopping Centre
St David's Park
Santa Rosa, California
Central El Paso
Chimney Rock National Monument
Fort Bliss National Cemetery
Alaskan Way Viaduct
Capela dos Ossos
Carvoeiro (Lagoa)
Panorama of Apple Campus 2 under construction, July 2016

Aerials

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Lummi Island
San Bruno Mountain
Woolsey Fire

Critters

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Miscellaneous

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Panorama of Stein am Rhein in late afternoon sunlight, stitched for me by Laurence
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