RayNorris

NOTES:

• I HAVE CHANGED MY WIKIPEDIA NAME from Rayd8 to RayNorris. Apologies if this causes any confusion.
• If you wish to leave a message for me here, please do so at the BOTTOM of the page. Thanks.

DISCUSSION

(cleaned up 24 January 2010) Ray - the Baiame site is a men's site. It should not be visited by women. Your photo shows a woman at the site. Can you rectify please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Bigfella111 (talk • contribs) 02:49, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

My apologies - I agree it should be removed. I was not aware of that when we visited the cave. RayNorris (talk) 06:52, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

We're recruiting art lovers!

Archives of American Art Wikimedia Partnership - We need you!

Hi! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about art to participate in furthering art coverage on Wikipedia. I am planning contests and projects that will allow you access, no matter where you live, to the world's largest collection of archives related to American art. Please sign up to participate here, and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 00:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 28

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Astronomical Acronyms, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Socorro and Polarisation (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 13:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Whoops! OK I'll fix them up RayNorris (talk) 22:55, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Astronomical Acronyms

Hey Ray, hopefully I'm doing this right, first time other than welcome messages to post on a user talk page. Just letting you know I answered all your responses to the tags on the talk page. I also added a under construction tag on the article so maybe it'll encourage a passerby or two to help and to let any random page checkers know it's being worked on. Be happy to help as much as I can, seems like it has potential for being a good page. Feel free to come knock on my user page if its been a few days since I've responded to something you added or commented about on the article. Cheers. Sulfurboy (talk) 02:48, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Great - many thanks! RayNorris (talk) 03:22, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 4

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Astronomical Acronyms, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Antenna, Focus and SAO (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:19, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Sydney edit-a-thon invitation

Hi there! You are cordially invited to a classical music edit-a-thon Saturday week (13 October) in Sydney. The theme will be Music of France, to coincide with the ABC Classic FM countdown between 8-14 October. If you are unable to attend in person, we will also be collaborating online during the countdown. Details an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/October 2012. Hope you can make it! John Vandenberg 09:39, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

(this automated message was delivered using replace.py to all users in Sydney)

Folklore associated with some constellations....

G'day Ray, (funny reading your usepage as I am a psychiatrist in real life and would much prefer to write about birdwatching and astronomy than medicine on wikipedia as the latter is too much like work...) I am buffing up some astronomy articles and am keen to broaden the folklore and myth in them. Right now I've been working on Corona Australis, Triangulum Australe and Betelgeuse with Canopus something I am keen to work on in the near future. I have borrowed "Dark Sparklers" from the UNSW library (great read) and have read some of hamacher's papers online and also borrowed "Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia". If you recall any other folklore on the constellations and stars above I'd be dead keen to hear about it (Bill Harney is the first person to have any folklore attached to Triangulum Australe I have ever found - fantastic!), cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

I say, this looks interesting! I love the story about the interpretation of Betelgeuse's variability. Sorta thing it'd be good to read about in the original to be able to insert in the Betelgeuse article (big as it is!) without paraphrasing.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:29, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Agreed! Unfortunately the original is in Daisy Bates' private papers in the National Library of Australia (Ref Bates, D. (1904-1912). Section VII; Myths and Legends. Papers of Daisy Bates. Held at the National Library of Australia, reference: MS 365, mfm 28328/28329 selected pages from the following folios 25/1 to 26/286, reels 12-14.) and I don't have a copy of it. I'll try to dig it out on my next trip down there RayNorris (talk) 09:15, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Great! I love the idea of getting some of this material "out there" on the web for all to read. I've done it with loads of articles on native plants (Banksia and Persoonia spp.) Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Sydney edit-a-thon invitation

Hi there! You are cordially invited to a disability edit-a-thon Saturday week (10 November) in Sydney. If you are unable to attend in person, we will also be collaborating online before, during and after the meetup. Details an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/November 2012. Hope you can make it! John Vandenberg 15:20, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

(this automated message was delivered using replace.py to all users in Sydney)

Sydney meetup invitation: January 2013

Hi there! You are cordially invited to attend a meetup being held on Thursday 10 January 2013. Details an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/January 2013. Hope you can make it! John Vandenberg 09:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

(this automated message was delivered using replace.py to all users in Sydney)

RfC:Infobox Road proposal

WP:AURD (Australian Roads), is inviting comment on a proposal to convert Australian road articles to {{infobox road}}. Please come and discuss. The vote will be after concerns have been looked into.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/RfC:Infobox Road proposal

You are being notified as a member on the list of WP:AUS

Nbound (talk) 05:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

cardinal directions

Hi Ray, Sorry that my edit history comments on cardinal directions were a bit brief. I've left a comment on the talk page there as it seems best to keep the discussion all in one spot, but quickly speaking the references were a bit broken, there was (and now is) a link to a disambiguation page rather than a better link, the word aboriginal is potentially considered a racist term, so best avoided, and the stuff about stone alignments is probably better on the individual articles. Also I've got a minor concern about things being possibly seen as new age hippy interpretation of why stone alignments are as they are, and so want to make sure that no original research and only reliable sources are used if any of that stuff is being discussed. Hope that makes sense, and I don't want to stamp on any toes, so I wonder if you might like to go back to the section and edit that to deal with those concerns. sorry again that I didn't also paste this on the cardinal directions talk page at the time I made the edit, I got dragged off to work so didn't get around to it. EdwardLane (talk) 08:17, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Lunar orbit.gif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Lunar orbit.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:54, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Sydney September 2013 edit-a-thon invite

Hi there! You are cordially invited to an edit-a-thon this Saturday (21 September) in Sydney at the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), where you can collaborate with other Wikipedians throughout the day. Andy Carr, a senior librarian at SLNSW will also be helping out. The theme of the edit-a-thon is paralympics sports, but you are free to come along to meet other wiki contributors, and edit other topics.

If you are unable to attend in person, we will also be collaborating online. Details and an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/September 2013. Hope you can make it! John Vandenberg 09:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

(this automated message was delivered using replace.py to all users in Wikipedians in Sydney)

Disambiguation link notification for October 7

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Luminosity, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Bandwidth and Radio source. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Evolutionary Map of the Universe. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Ninney (talk) 14:36, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! for citing additional sources. I had also added Categories. - Ninney (talk) 14:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Oops - sorry! I think our edits clashed. RayNorris (talk) 16:07, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:38, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, RayNorris. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, RayNorris. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Radio Galaxy Zoo

Thankyou for your helpful edits. New articles always need attention and expansion, which is what you've given. If there are any further links to external articles etc. that you think might help this article, please contact me (or add them yourself). Richard Nowell (talk) 10:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, RayNorris. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Penrith Observatory moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Penrith Observatory, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Celestina007 (talk) 15:53, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Penrith Observatory

Hello, RayNorris. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Penrith Observatory, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:01, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Penrith Observatory

Hello, RayNorris. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Penrith Observatory".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 06:59, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Penrith Observatory (March 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Penrith Observatory and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Penrith Observatory, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello, RayNorris! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:31, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Penrith Observatory (February 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by InterstellarGamer12321 was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Penrith Observatory and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 09:10, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikiproject

Hi, I see you've contributed a lot to Bora (Australian), would you be interested in a taskforce on oral tradition? Kowal2701 (talk) 12:01, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Kowal2701 Thanks for the invitation. Yes I would be.I am currently engaged in some research in this area so this would suit me well.

Cheers, Ray RayNorris (talk) 21:52, 28 July 2024 (UTC)