User:Akadruid

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I am a Computer Programmer living in West Sussex, England and working in London. I have been a Wikipedia editor since 23rd January 2004, and Wikipedia reader for much longer.

My main interests lie in the areas of computers, cars, and heavy metal/rock music.

I am a born-again Evangelical Christian. On www.politicalcompass.org, I score as follows: Economic Left/Right: -0.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26

I am the founder and a member of the WikiProject:Automobiles. I also work on important articles for the WikiProject: Missing articles, and random other stuff, as it takes my fancy. A recent project is Fort Nelson, Portsmouth and my pet hate is the Crawley Fastway. I am Commons:User:akadruid.

If you wish to contact me, please use the email address thedruid*thedruid,co,uk. Please refer to Wikipedia when contacting me. I am also available on ICQ #7849476 or MSN akadruid*hotmail,com, although I do not accept messages from people not on my list, so please send a contact request mentioning Wikipedia.

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VW Golf Mk.1 Cabrio by akaDruid

Jaguar XKR-R by akaDruid

Lotus 340R (side) by akaDruid

Lotus 340R (front) by akaDruid

Mosta Cathedral by akaDruid

Highlighted Edits

Like most Wikipedia editors, I don't claim any kind of ownership or authority to these articles - this is just a reference list of some of things I have worked on. It's nowhere near complete - see my contributions page for more info. Artiles marked with a (N) were started by me.

Cars

• WikiProject:Automobiles (N)(Talk)
• Automobile (Talk) - Hot hatch (Talk) - Car classification (Talk)
• Aston Martin Vanquish (N)
• Audi Quattro (N)
• BMW 3-Series
• Jaguar E-type - Jaguar XK8 - Jaguar X-Type
• Lotus 340R (N)
• Porsche Carrera GT
• Renault Laguna - Renault Kangoo (N)
• Rover Metro
• SEAT León (N) - SEAT Ibiza (N) - SEAT Alhambra (N)
• TVR Tuscan (N)
• VW Lupo (N) - VW Polo - VW Golf - VW Corrado - VW Phaeton - VW Touareg (N) - VW Type 3 (N) - VW Type 4 (N) - VW LT (N)
• List of supercars (N)
• Rinspeed
• Ransom E. Olds - Henry M. Leland
• High occupancy toll
• Effects of the automobile on society (Talk)
• Gas station (Talk)
• EuroNCAP

Places

• Crawley - Crawley Fastway (N)
  • Three Bridges
  • Tilgate (N)
  • Southgate (N)
  • Pound Hill (N)
  • West Green (N)
  • Broadfield
  • Pease Pottage (N)
  • Haywards Heath

• London Dungeon - London Bridge rail station - London

Music

• Staind - Break The Cycle
• Zeroption
• The Ramones

Computers

• Powerbuilder (N) - Sybase
• KCeasy
• Phillip Torrone (N)
• Publicfile (N)

Other Stuff - mostly from 'missing articles' or 'most wanted'

• List of Sony products (later merged with and redirected to Sony)
• F/A-22 Raptor
• Helios
• Helios (disambiguation) (N)
• Landing Craft
• Medieval warfare
• Manor house (N)
• Veld (N)
• Paris Club (N)
• Jaffa cake (N) (How did WP get to Sep 04 with no Jaffa cake article?)
• Mauritius Hemp (N)
• Fort Nelson, Portsmouth (N)
• Court of High Commission (N)
• North Polar Basin (N)
• Numenius of Apamea (N)
• Nummulite (N)
• Shax (board game) (N)
• A Treatise of Human Nature (N)
• Universal 3D (N)
• UDB (N), UBE (N) and UBR (N) as disambig pages.
• Ultrafiche (N)
• Uranium metallurgy (N)
• Starling (architecture) (N)
• User Location Service (N)
• Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (based on translated article from de:) (N)
• Arago and Ashurnasirpal as disambig pages. (N)

Non-Article Pages

I started and have worked on WikiProject:Automobiles

I also spent some time creating categories and templates for different automobile manufacturers and adding them to all the existing articles. The templates for the ones I have created to date are below:

• Template:VW
• Template:SEAT
• Template:Audi
• Template:Jaguar
• Template:Peugeot

I don't pretend to take any credit for the gorgeous Peugeot timeline, the template I made was a much inferior listing! Credit for the timeline goes to the talented User:Sfoskett. I also created Template:Latest stable release/PowerBuilder, Template:Latest preview release/PowerBuilder, Template:User pb and Template:User pb-4

Redirects

Jaguar E-Type, Jaguar E Type , Jaguar X-type, Jaguar X Type, MG Metro, Austin Metro, Rover 100, BMW 3-series, BMW 3 series, VW Gacel, VW CitiGolf, VW Vento, VW Bora, Veldt and more...

To-do List

• Rail transport in mainland China
• WP:MEA

Uploaded Images

I own the copyright on all the images I upload, and have licensed them under the GFDL.

External Links

Links related to me in some way...

• www.thedruid.co.uk. My website.
• Haywards Heath Concert Brass, where my wife plays.
• Brewer Road Evangelical Church. My church, and I did the site.

Licensing

My text edits to the WP are licensed under the GFDL.

In addition, I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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♦This user is a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles

This user is proud to be British.

njThis user is a Ninja, with dominion over everything totally sweet.

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