User:Petrolmaps

I have been an occasional contributor to Wikipedia since 2006, and remain a great fan of the product for all its occasional faults.

I am likely to edit/create Wiki entries on Global Climate Change, Energy policy of the United Kingdom, Energy Efficiency, Renewables, Corporate Social Responsibility, Alternative Transport Fuels - including Biofuels, Cartography and the History of the Oil Industry. Several of these are dealt with at length on the Petrolmaps website, which looks at the European oil industry through the road maps that petrol companies have sold, as well as at the changing ways in which the companies have responded to the growing awareness of the need for fuel conservation. But having said that, the first two articles I created were filling in small gaps for Tilling Stevens (a defunct British bus and lorry manufacturer) and Cat Ba Island in Vietnam.

In practice, many of my edits have been correcting small errors of fact on a wide range of topics, and correcting obvious typos or other editing errors, or trying to add more recent statistics to a page that carries data that is now sadly out of date. One of my other voluntary roles as as a committee member (and occasional working group convenor) for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and that work has taught me the importance of clarity and grammatical accuracy, especially when documents are being read by people with a different English language background.

Disclosure: From 1990 to 2018, I was a paid employee of the National Energy Foundation and voluntarily (ie. often in my own time) will check the page for accuracy. I was not officially sanctioned or required to act on their behalf in this activity.