User:Akadruid

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. My pet hates include the Crawley Fastway, which I consider a sickening waste of public money. I created but now attempt to avoid editing the Crawley Fastway page (with varying degrees of success), since most of my edits require major NPOV work. Some of my more contstructive edits can be seen below, or on my contributions page.

I am a founding member of the WikiProject:Automobiles

If you wish to contact me, please use the email address thedruid*thedruid,co,uk. I am also available on ICQ #7849476 or MSN akadruid*hotmail,com. Please refer to the WP when contacting me.

VW Golf Mk.1 Cabrio by akaDruid

Jaguar XKR-R by akaDruid

Jaguar XKR-R (large) by akaDruid

Lotus 340R (side) by akaDruid

Lotus 340R (front) by akaDruid

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London traffic by akaDruid

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Nokia 3510 by akaDruid

'Things To Do' list

Things I have spotted that need doing, which I might get time to do one day.

• Jaguar E-type needs more info.
• Car safety needs more info.
• media:Lamborghini.jpg is mostly pavement, needs cropping for article.

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.

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

Other Stuff

• List of Sony products (later merged with and redirected to Sony)
• F/A-22 Raptor
• Helios
• 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?)

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 completed to date are below:

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...

Uploaded Images

I own the copyright on the images I upload, and have released them for use in the Wikipedia under the GFDL and conditions of the Wikipedia.

External Links

Links related to me in some way...

• akaDruid's personal website
• Haywards Heath Concert Brass, where my girlfriend plays.

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: