User:John Hill

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I am now retired living in the bush about 25 km west of Cooktown, Australia on Cape York Peninsula, more than 300 km from the nearest traffic lights. I was born in Montréal, Canada in 1943 and raised in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I am of English and French background with a dash of Beothuk, the natives of Newfoundland, who were hounded to extinction in the 1820s and 1830s.

"Remember the Beothuk!".

I first arrived Australia in January 1964, and am now a citizen. Besides travelling widely, I trained as a young man as a Field Assistant and Laboratory Technician in virology in Trinidad. I have worked in fisheries research in Alaska both at sea (for a full year) and ashore in Sandpoint, Alaska, in 1962-63. I graduated as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in Sydney, Australia in 1967. I lived for more than three years in India doing research on Indian and Tibetan history and have travelled extensively in Asia. I have worked for many years in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia in a very wide variety of positions.

Involvement with the Wikipedia

I have been editing on the Wikipedia since 30th January 2005. I have created a number of articles on the Wikipedia (see below) and significantly contributed to many more. I have uploaded more than 200 images to the Wikipedia and WikiCommons (mostly my own photos), and have made almost 12 thousand edits.

I love the basic concept of the Wikipedia and constantly encourage others to contribute.

I am particularly concerned with ensuring the Wikipedia is not taken over by fanatics or used to promote fringe theories. I also make a point of adding or updating references, external links and items in "Further reading" sections, whenever possible. I seem to spend an ever-increasing amount of time trying to reverse the constant barrage of vandalism on the Wikipedia.

Aside from the articles I have created for the Wikipedia, I have added to and edited thousands of others, uploaded hundreds of images, including many of my own photos, and I monitor and keep a close eye on edits to scores of articles of particular interest to myself.

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My main interests

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• Asian history; particularly Chinese, Tibetan, Central Asian and Indian history and the development of trade routes both overland and maritime between East and West, and pre-historic contacts between Australia and other countries.

• I have written two heavily annotated draft translations of Chinese books on the Silk Routes from the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, which are freely available on the Silk Road Seattle website hosted by the University of Washington. To have a look - click on http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html and/or http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue.html.

• My first book has now been published as: Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. (2009). John E. Hill. (2009). BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1. It is available from several sources and is being sold at a 28% discount (at US$ $28.79 plus post) through Amazon.com at the moment.

• I have also published an article on the history of Khotan: Hill, John E.: "Notes on the Dating of Khotanese History." Indo-Iranian Journal 31 (1988), pp. 179-190.

• Australian Aboriginal issues and culture.

• West Indian (particularly Trinidadian) history and culture.

• The Beothuk people (the original inhabitants of Newfoundland).

• The history, wildlife and conservation of Cape York Peninsula and Cooktown.

• Nature conservation and alternative energy source.

• The plight of the mentally-ill, refugees, the desperately poor, hungry, and sick.

• The exploration of the potential of the mind, and the inherent as well as the learned limitations.

• The causes of racism, slavery, sexism and bigotry.

• The conversion of hatred and fear through the cultivation of kindness, tolerance, empathy and patience.

• The impending demise of our species, and what we might do to delay it.

I have made some contributions in all these areas as well as many others. I look forward to correspondence on any of them. I am able to contribute with an intermediate level of French and Spanish.

My path

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Created articles

GEOGRAPHICAL	HISTORICAL	PEOPLE & PEOPLES	PLANTS & ANIMALS	MONASTERIES and STUPAS	OTHERS
Cooktown, Queensland Endeavour River Hopevale, Queensland Lakeland, Queensland Laura, Queensland Coen, Queensland Papunya, Northern Territory Sandpoint, Alaska Korla Chitral Mintaka Pass Kilik Pass Dhauladhar Sasser Pass Karakoram Pass Keriya Minfeng Town Kurram Valley Yecheng Anthemusias Mustagh Pass Xaidulla Lhamo La-tso (lake) Batang Town Litang Town Batang County Kushan Pass Khawak Pass Tsaparang Sanju Pass Khalatse Bay of Exploits Poo (town) Bazar Dara Kokyar Yarlung Valley Jonê Town (also known as Cho-ne Town) Zhol Village Gunsa Airport Darchen Karatash River Qiemo Town	Weilüe Charax Spasinu Tibetan Annals Indo-Roman relations Old Tibetan Chronicle Lhasa Zhol Pillar Gyantse Dzong	Rosaleen Norton Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen Wilbur Downs Vera Scarth-Johnson Rong people Gaddis Ekai Kawaguchi Ralpacan Abhayakaragupta Manjushrikirti Gö Lotsawa Yungtön Dorjepel Sadnalegs Mangsong Mangtsen 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje Mes-ag-tshoms Agvan Dorzhiev Gungsrong Gungtsen Gö Khugpa Dorje Pakmo Sumpa Sir Galba Ban Yong Lewis Roberts (naturalist) Henry James Evans Dan McLeod List of Australian botanical illustrators Gelenius Song Yun Orgyen Lingpa Golok people Barbara Kathleen Snow Joseph Lennox Pawan	Bennett's Tree-kangaroo Marbled Frog Schefflera actinophylla Proiphys ambionensis Davy's Naked-backed Bat Greenhall's Dog-faced bat Ethmostigmus rubripes Maniltoa lenticellata Haemagogus Calophyllum antillanum Cooktownia Oncophyllum Oncophyllum minutissimum Appendicula australiensis Acriopsis emarginata Vappodes Oxysepala Dockrillia teretifolia Serpenticaulis bowkettiae Allocasuarina littoralis Acianthella Antheraea Coelandria smillieae Cepobaculum semifuscum Corymbia tesselaris Nervilia aragoana Bromheadia pulchra Cirrbopetalum gracillimum Oxysepala grandimesensis Serpenticaulis wolfei Curcuma australasica Phaius pictus Parafilaria multipapillosa Aphyllorchis queenslandica Acianthella sublesta Oberonia titania Tripterygium regelii Acacia leiocalyx Large Samoan Flying Fox Eriinae Temognatha alternata Temognatha Tectocoris diophthalmus Steadfast Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Rickart's Dyak Fruit Bat Andersen's Naked-backed Fruit Bat Halmahera Naked-backed Fruit Bat Sulawesi Harpy Fruit Bat Greater Monkey-faced Bat Linduan Rousette Pilbara Toadlet Dendrelaphis calligastra	Yerpa Nechung Khorzhak Monastery Simbiling Monastery Chokorgyel Monastery Samding Drongtse Monastery Tsi Nesar Tabo Monastery Tangyud Monastery Kardang Monastery Gandhola Monastery Lhalung Monastery Rangdum Monastery Tawang Monastery Daklha Gampo Tsomon Ling Sankar Monastery Mulbekh Monastery Dzongkhul Monastery Sani Monastery Buchu Monastery Tongkor Monastery Kandze Monastery Khangmar Monastery Riwoche Monastery Cho-ne Monastery Thrangu Monastery, Tibet Thrangu Monastery, Canada Tsechen Monastery and Dzong Kirti Gompa Nangzhik Gompa White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang	Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory Sea silk Wild silk Eri silk Mahāvyutpatti Queensland Music Festival Trilokinath Temple at Tunde Mata Kuan Rani Temple Piqué-work Tomb of Wang Chuzhi Azes era

"How-To" Guide to Wikipedia

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