User:Rayd8

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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 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 or stubs I have created (not redirects or renaming)

• Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
• Australian Aboriginal Astronomy
• Bidjigal
• Bidjigal Reserve
• Big Bill Neidjie
• Caledon Bay
• Caledon Bay Crisis
• Coniston, NT
• Donald Thomson
• Gove land rights case
• Lunar standstill
• Sydney Rock Engravings
• Wardaman
• Woodah Island
• Yirrkala

Articles to which I have substantially contributed:

• Arnhem Land
• Baiame
• Daramulan
• Galarrwuy Yunupingu
• Indigenous Australians
• Indigenous Australian art

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

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

My to-do list

• Flesh out the Arnhem Land article.
• Move all my pics into Wikimedia and make licensing consistent
• Write articles on Bark painting, stone arrangments, Mundoes, Kuwema, Boorong
• 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

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