"The much lauded objective evidence is never triumphantly there; it is a mere aspiration or Grenzbegriff marking the infinitely remote ideal of our thinking life..."

-William James

This user attends or attended MIT.

PE This user is a licensed Professional Engineer.

I sign my posts with my first name, Yannick. I am a Canadian engineer with an MIT degree and 16 years of of diverse practical experience: I've been lucky enough to work on submarines, helicopters, space payloads, nuclear reactors, and geothermal heat pumps. On Wikipedia, I get to share my knowledge, as well as keep it in a handy place for myself when my memory (or hard drive) fails. I am much more interested in content than format, but I sure spend a lot of time on citations of late. My Wikipedia contributions are an important source of pride and intellectual satisfaction for me. My first official edit was on June 5th, 2005, but I was contributing anonymously a few months before that. I was at Wikimania 2006 and had a great time.

Yannick Trottier

If you want to argue with me, (or anyone else for that matter,) I recommend your read Paul Graham's excellent essay on How to Disagree. I try to follow it myself, and I don't mind if you remind me of it now and then. If you wish to disagree with me about measurement units in particular, please consult the guidelines at WP:UNITS first. If this does not satisfy you, then by all means contact me.

	The Original Barnstar
	Very nice job on the Heavy Press Program article. Interesting and useful topic, and well presented. Appreciated! Herostratus (talk) 05:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
	The Nuclear Barnstar
	For your work on Louis Slotin. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Some other articles where I think I've made a difference:

• vacuum and related pages
• geothermal power and geothermal heat pump
• Euler-Bernoulli beam equation
• Anodizing
• Pipe (material) and Nominal Pipe Size
• Radiation-induced cancer