Aus Chia

Hello and welcome to my user page! I have been registered here for ten years, but have regularly edited for over 20 years. As you can see, from reading below, I used to be more verbose than I am these days.

The underlying collaborative method was always particularly valuable, and really reflects the origins of the internet, that readers can edit and contribute to Wiki articles, thus creating an impressively wide knowledge base, whilst simultaneously allowing mistakes to be quickly corrected by any knowledgeable contributor.

As a newly registered editor, I'm still on a steep learning curve, and you're very welcome to leave me a message or any constructive advice. If you have any corrections or suggestions or discussions regarding my contributions, please don't hesitate to leave me a message.

I've just begun to play around with userboxes -- umm, I may have overdone it a little with my myriad of choices of boxes! I might have to edit a little (more)! Meanwhile, enjoy -- may my lists amuse.

Why I joined Wikipedia

I've enjoyed editing and adding to Wikipedia for many years now, albeit anonymously. I never considered registering and creating a personal account and username, until I discovered that my IP address was not unique to our home computer, but was an IP common to our ISP's proxy server, and thus was being shared amongst many individuals. Accordingly, I've now created my username here in order to be pseudonymously identifiable. And, after all, there are so many good reasons to register and create a Wikipedia account.

Some of my interests and specialties

As a Postgraduate in Palaeoanthropology and a PhD candidate in Archaeology, and with a double major in my First Class Honours degree in H.P.S. (History and Philosophy of Science) and Archaeology, I've made many additions to archaeological pages here at Wiki over the years. I specialise in history of physics, history of evolutionary biology, history of astronomy, Bronze Age archaeology, including of the Mediterranean, Aegean, Anatolia, the Indus Valley as well as Egyptology.

I completed my Honours thesis on the study of our classifications of hominid fossils, with a focus on Australopithecus and Homo habilis, the first species to be categorised in the Homo genus: my analyses encompassed the history of palaeoanthropology and taxonomy and biological classification as well as the realities of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology including utilising Cladistics. Accordingly, I've contributed to the Wiki articles on Homo habilis, including OH 7, amongst others, as well as Wikipedia's list of hominid fossils and the archaeologically significant geographic regions of Koobi Fora in modern day Kenya, Olduvai Gorge in modern day Tanzania, and the twentieth century archaeologists, Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, and Raymond Dart. I intend to begin a Wikipedia article on Donald Johanson's OH 62 fossil in the near future.

I'm also glad for my previous anonymous contributions to Wikipedia before I became a registered user: as a classic film buff, some of my favourite past Wiki edits included corrections and additions to the articles on W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy and Mae Busch's origins from Australia's Melbourne (my home town).

As a wildlife and animal carer, I've improved various Wiki articles on animals including marsupials and monotremes as well as particularly on birds and frog species.

I am also particularly interested in Humanism, and in Philosophy from the Classical Greek to the European Enlightenment (Age of Enlightenment) through Eastern philosophy (which can, additionally, be traced archaeologically as far back as Mesopotamia: Babylonian literature#Philosophy), as well as Taoism and Buddhism.

I also live with and have survived various diagnosed disabilities caused by having been a victim of crimes including in my workplace as well as criminal personal tragedy – although I continue to suffer debilitating symptoms of diagnosed post traumatic stress disorder, I am an advocate as well as a survivor – victims of crime, you are not alone.

As a musician (and dancer too) since childhood (keyboard, guitar and flute as well as music theory), as well as being a music fan (from classical to modern), I'm also rather happy with my descriptive interpretation of the lyrics of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", as well as my additions to the articles on The Velvet Underground, John Cale, Joy Division, Roxy Music and Brian Eno amongst others.

And, as a professional writer, as well as an avid reader since childhood, I've corrected and added to Wiki pages on my science-fiction favourites, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Carl Sagan (also non-fiction of course), William Gibson (yes, his character inspired my username!), and interesting related genres such as cyberpunk and steampunk -- and on that note, do you see the cute similarities between H. G. Wells and Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events"?

I'll see you around Wikipedia, and look forward to it, Aus Chia (talk) 05:58, 04 April 2023 (UTC)

Just a glimpse of me via UserBoxes:

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It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

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KILROY WAS HERE!

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This user used a non-digital camera for many years.

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