User:RayNorris

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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 .

Contents 1 New articles that I have started 2 Articles to which I have substantially contributed 3 Other useful pages (listed here for my own reference!) 4 My to-do list 5 Images which I have contributed

[edit] New articles that I have started

• Aboriginal deaths in custody
• Aboriginal stone arrangements
• Australian Aboriginal astronomy
• Benevolent Society
• Bidjigal
• Bidjigal Reserve
• Big Bill Neidjie
• Bora
• Caledon Bay
• Caledon Bay crisis
• Coniston, NT
• Donald Thomson
• Gove land rights case
• Lunar standstill
• Sydney Leadership
• Sydney rock engravings
• Wardaman
• Woodah Island
• Yirrkala

[edit] Articles to which I have substantially contributed

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

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

• special pages
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Help:editing
• Wikipedia:Footnotes
• Australian Wikipedians' notice board.

[edit] 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 Bill Harney article (on both of them with disambiguation)
• Write longer article on Australian Rock Art, including kakadu paintings etc.
• Write article on Panaramitee engravings

[edit] Images which I have contributed

Emu in the Sky	Wiradjuri painting of Baiame	Rock engraving of Baiame	Kava sign outside Yirrkala
Lunar orbit	Lunar declination in 2006	Lunar Major Standstills in 2006	Termite cathedral mounds
Macassan stone arrangement	part of the Wurdi Youang Stone arrangement