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#Contributions).

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 Wikipedia: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.