User:MapsMan

MapsMan is an occasional contributor on Wikipedia — including providing factual corrections, adding templates or making copy edits — as well Commons, Wiktionary, and a number of other language versions (see User:MapsMan).

The first page I started from scratch was the article on Griffin Park, the home of my favourite football team, Brentford.

I have since created the following pages:


 * Wall of Sound (record label) — a label that features in my record collection.
 * Akasha (band) — a band formerly signed to Wall of Sound
 * Sunderland Symphony Orchestra — of which I was formerly am a member.
 * Old Bill — about the origin of the Colloquial British term (now moved to Wikitionary).
 * Rokin — a street in Amsterdam, one of my favourite cities.
 * National Tariff System — about the Dutch public transport ticketing system.
 * SmartWater — an anti-theft system about which I was trying to find info, and to my horror had no Wikipedia entry!
 * AntiProduct — crazy, crazy punk rockers!
 * Alex Kane — AntiProduct's eccentric frontman
 * Clam Abuse — side project of Alex Kane, with Ginger of The Wildhearts.
 * Haxo (Paris Métro) — ghost station on Paris métro which I mainly translated from French Wikipedia.
 * Vocal Sampling — a fantastic Cuban a cappella salsa band, whom I saw live at the Royal Albert Hall during a Prom-season.
 * Ebenezer Place, Wick — the world's shortest street (featured in Unusual articles).
 * A1018 road in Sunderland
 * Single carriageway — the British term for the most common (i.e. undivided) type of road, highway or street.
 * NewcastleGateshead — the now increasingly fashionable brand name for the Newcastle and Gateshead conurbation.
 * Holy Trinity, Sunderland — by far the best building in Sunderland
 * Leinster Gardens — a street in London containing a false façade concealing a London Underground line.
 * Hindhead Tunnel — the longest non-estuarial tunnel in the United Kingdom (under construction).
 * Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company — notable structural engineering company.
 * Structurae firm — for linking to firms in the Structurae database.
 * ISO8601 — for creating an ISO 8601 date/time-stamp.
 * H TB — the symbol for the heat loss due to thermal bridging in the analysis of the energy performance of buildings in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
 * Chislehurst Junction — important railway junction in Kent/South East London
 * Tyne and Wear Metro — schematic route diagram of Tyne and Wear Metro network
 * Bancroft family — the former owners of Dow Jones & Company
 * List of primary destinations on the UK road network
 * Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 (stub)
 * Dead hedge — ancient technique for forming an artificial barrier made of natural materials.
 * Dunham Bridge — toll bridge over the River Trent, England.

Not included are stub articles which were created for disambiguation purposes.

Contributions

 * Edit Count
 * Image Upload Gallery
 * Commons contributions
 * Other Wikipedias
 * Spanish (Castellano) (IP 2)
 * Spanish (Castellano) (IP 3)
 * Danish (IP 3)
 * German (IP 2)
 * German (IP 3)
 * German (IP 4)
 * French (IP 2)
 * French (IP 3)
 * Italian (IP 3)
 * Dutch
 * Norwegian (Bokmål)
 * Scots
 * Swedish
 * West Flemish

Useful tools and links

 * Template:TestTemplates
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * List of administrators
 * Special:Listusers
 * Category:Wikipedia administrators
 * Special:Newpages
 * Special:Recentchanges
 * International Phonetic Alphabet for English
 * Liste der IPA-Zeichen
 * Citation templates
 * Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates


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Places where I have lived

 * DL3
 * E2
 * N14
 * NE2
 * NE3
 * NE4
 * NE6
 * NE8
 * NW2
 * Praha 6

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