User:Akadruid

I am a Computer Programmer living in West Sussex, England and working in London. I have had an account on Wikipedia since 23rd January 2004.

I used to edit a lot but these days I don't have much time.

My main interests lie in the areas of

I started WikiProject:Automobiles, but these days most of the work is done by others. I sometimes work on WikiProject: Missing articles. I am Commons:User:akadruid.

If you wish to contact me, please use the email address thedruid*thedruid,co,uk.

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Highlighted Edits

Some of things I have worked on. It's nowhere near complete - see my contributions page for more info. Articles marked with a (N) were started by me.

Cars

• WikiProject:Automobiles (N)
• Aston Martin Vanquish (N)
• Audi Quattro (N)
• Jaguar XK8 - Jaguar X-Type
• Lotus 340R (N)
• Renault Kangoo (N)
• SEAT León (N) - SEAT Ibiza (N) - SEAT Alhambra (N)
• TVR Tuscan (N)
• VW LT
  (N)

Places

• Crawley Fastway
  (N)
  • Three Bridges
  • Tilgate (N)
  • Southgate
    (N)
  • Pound Hill (N)
  • West Green (N)
  • Broadfield
  • Pease Pottage (N)
  • Haywards Heath
• Fort Nelson, Portsmouth
  (N)

Computers

• Powerbuilder (N) - Sybase
• Publicfile (N)

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

• Helios (disambiguation) (N)
• 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)
• 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 (N) and Ashurnasirpal (N)

Non-Article Pages

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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, including these:

• Template:VW
  (N)
• Template:SEAT (N)
• Template:Audi (N)
• Template:Jaguar (N)
• Template:Peugeot (N)

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.

Licensing

My text edits to the WP are licensed under the

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers. GFDL with disclaimers GNU Free Documentation License with disclaimers //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

If this file is eligible for relicensing, it may also be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The relicensing status of this image has not yet been reviewed. You can help.

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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Automobiles.

This user has a ton of edits.

Mozilla Firefox

This user contributes using Linux

PB-4	This user is an expert PowerBuilder programmer.

PHP-4

This user is an expert PHP programmer.

SQL-4

This user is an expert SQL programmer.

This user maintains a blog

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

This user is proud to be British.

This user has too many userboxes.