User:RayNorris

G'day

My name is Ray and I live in Sydney, Australia, but was born and grew up in Hertfordshire, UK. I first started contributing to Wikipedia in September 2005.

I used the Wikipedia name Rayd8 for privacy reasons until February 2007 when I was persuaded (against my better judgement!) to use my real name.

I am an astrophysicist, but prefer not to write Wikipedia articles on that as it's too much like work (although I'm happy to help out where necessary). Instead, most of my work in Wikipedia tends to be around the culture of Indigenous Australians, especially Aboriginal Art and Aboriginal Astronomy, and issues facing Indigenous Australians today.

New articles that I have started

 * Aboriginal deaths in custody
 * Aboriginal stone arrangements
 * Astronomical Acronyms
 * Australian Aboriginal astronomy
 * Barnumbirr
 * Benevolent Society
 * Bidjigal
 * Bidjigal Reserve
 * Big Bill Neidjie
 * Bill Yidumduma Harney
 * Bora
 * Caledon Bay
 * Caledon Bay crisis
 * Coniston, NT
 * Donald Thomson
 * Evolutionary Map of the Universe
 * Gove land rights case
 * K. Langloh Parker
 * Lunar standstill
 * Sydney Leadership
 * Sydney rock engravings
 * Ehrenfest-Tolman effect
 * Wardaman
 * Woodah Island
 * Yirrkala

Articles to which I have substantially contributed

 * Arnhem Land
 * Australian Aboriginal culture
 * Baiame
 * Bark painting
 * Daramulan
 * Galarrwuy Yunupingu
 * Indigenous Australians
 * Indigenous Australian art
 * Redshift
 * Ubirr

Other useful pages (listed here for my own reference!)

 * special pages
 * How to edit a page
 * Help:editing
 * Footnotes
 * Australian Wikipedians' notice board.
 * Manual_of_Style
 * Wikipedia DOI and Google Books Citation Maker

My to-do list

 * Write section on 'assimilation' in Indigenous Australians
 * Write articles on Mundoes, Kuwema, Boorong
 * Flesh out articles on Arnhem Land, bark painting, stone arrangements
 * Move all my pics into Wikimedia and make licensing consistent
 * Write longer article on Australian Rock Art, including kakadu paintings etc.
 * Write article on Panaramitee engravings