User:Schwede66

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I'm Axel Downard-Wilke. I'm a civil engineer by training and work as a transportation engineer and planner. Prior to university, I was an advocate for sustainable transport and I've turned that interest into my profession. I lived in Christchurch for 25 years and have lived in Parapara in Golden Bay / Mohua since October 2021. I've been an admin on the English Wikipedia since 2017.

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at my local

Kia ora. Welcome to my user pages. You are welcome to edit these pages.

Wikipedia interests

Having chosen New Zealand as my home, I take an interest in anything from my adopted country. I have a special interest in:

  • geography (built environment and water),
  • history
  • people
  • politics
  • civil engineering
  • transport (especially sustainable transport)
  • between December 2017 and August 2018 I wrote articles for the European Rowing Championships covering the editions from 1893 to 1973 (65 articles) plus started circa 450 rowing bios in support of that exercise

I have an account on flickr, but I don't hold photo files there. The account's purpose is to hunt for photos that are suitable for Wikipedia. I am active on Commons, where I upload my own photos and those from flickr that have a suitable licence. Since 2017, I've been reasonably active on Wikidata. Prior to 2009, I had a separate account for another Wikipedia project and ArbCom agreed to courtesy vanish the account for privacy reasons. That said, the need for that privacy has since vanished, too.

Presentations

I've given the following presentations on Wikipedia topics:

To do

  • Draft:Amalgamations with Christchurch City
  • Wakatū Incorporation
  • Te Here-ā-Nuku
  • Crosbie Ward (expand)
  • Waimea Dam, Wikidata Q138673632

Declarations

Conflict of interest

There are many people with bios on Wikipedia who I know well enough to have a conflict of interest (COI). Plus there is a relative in this list with whom I share a surname, and although I have never met her, I shall stay away from her bio. There are some links to Wikidata of people where a COI exists. I've listed those people who are notable; feel free to start a page for them. Regarding commercial interests, there's a software product, my local, and shareholding where COI is triggered.

I thus should not make edits to these articles, but note that I don't regard making minor edits as possibly triggering COI. I haven't always adhered to the COI policy—I have since becoming an administrator—and there are some people whose pages I edited in the past who I didn't know at that point, but I do know now. This COI list is possibly incomplete:

People with Wikipedia bios
People with Wikidata entries
Commercial interests that have Wikipedia articles or Wikidata entries
Other
Footnotes
  1. I authored this article, and it was only years later that I got to know him.
  2. Whilst I've never met this person, she is related to my wife (cousin of her father).
  3. Note that I expanded the article just the other day (19 October 2025), but have since had a long conversation with him.
  4. I'm involved in a group that, amongst other things, is openly critical of this act.
  5. My local
  6. I was a candidate in the Golden Bay ward and will thus not add any prose in relation to Golden Bay to the article.

Shared IP use

My wife has an account, too, which she sporadically uses to upload photos to Commons. Naturally, our accounts use the same IP address.

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