I am John, an early-retired Analytical chemist and scientist, born in Merseyside, now living in Surrey and was making good use of my time by addicting extra and hopefully useful information to Wikipedia. For the last 15 years of my working life I was an IT analyst, working for a global pharmaceutical company.

Being analytical and an IT professional in a highly regulated industry I am well suited to the provision of detailed factual information, validation, and compliance so I expect my contributions will be somewhat based on analysis of information form different sources, or addition of some detailed natural photos, since travel, nature and photography are my key hobbies and pastimes. Although a fan of Wikipedia for many years, I only started contributing in July 2014.

Recently I have become despondent with Wikipedia. Factually correct articles have been deleted because someone decided they are not important. Some of my own images removed on copyright grounds, and I and generally fed up with some very difficult and argumentative people. Information which is clearly correct and verifiable from the internet, should not require independent references but it seems too many people (or robot bots) are only too willing to delete hard work done by others. I am therefore taking a back seat and do not intend to write any new articles. Do not be surprised if I do not reply to messages.

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SurreyJohn
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Name	John
Born	Wirral, Merseyside
Nationality	British
Country	England
Current location	Weybridge, Surrey
Education and employment
Occupation	Analyst
Employer	(retired)
High school	Wirral Grammar
College	RCS, London
University	London
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Hobbies	Ancestry, Birds, Classical music, Travel, Video, Wildlife Photography
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First edit	26 July 2014
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	This user lives in Surrey.
; 107	This user has visited 107 of the 205 countries in the world.
	This user is interested in birding.
	This person is an African Grey Parrot owner.
	This person uses a Sony HX400V bridge camera.
	This person uses a Nikon P900 bridge camera.
PH-2	This user is able to take good-quality photographs.
	This user is a genealogist. ; He researches his family tree.
	This user is a chemist.
	This user is a systems analyst.
	This user is a participant in WikiProject Classical music.
	This user contributes using a PC they built themselves.
	This user has a channel on YouTube.
	This user writes reviews in Tripadvisor.
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	This user has been on Wikipedia for 12 years, 7 months and 10 days.
	This user contributes using Google Chrome.
Mission:	To visit a different country every year.
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Pages I've Created

Page creations and significant revisions:

Articles	Other
Birds Madagascan harrier-hawk (added images) (more to follow)	UserBox Templates (User:UBX NameSpace) AfricanGreyParrot Sony HX400V Bridge Camera (optional model)
Madagascar's Parks Lemur's Park (my first article) Kirindy Mitea National Park () Peyrieras Reptile Reserve and André Peyriéras Andasibe-Mantadia National Park () Anja Community Reserve	UserBox Templates (Template NameSpace) User FamilyTree (determines His/Her/Their) User TripAdvisor
Iguana and Reptiles (of Madagascar) Calumma gallus (GIF image) Oplurus () Oplurus fierinensis‎ Oplurus grandidieri‎ Oplurus cuvieri () Oplurus cyclurus Oplurus saxicola	My ToDo List Popular Classical Music article Improve Baobab tree article British Birds (ID guide) East-African Birds (ID guide) (and more)
Technology Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX400V	Other Wildlife Malagasy Lantern Bug The British Wildlife Centre
Classical Music 120 Greatest Musical Masterpieces (draft) List of compositions by Eduard Strauss Classical music Guidelines (popular culture) RealSound (Record Label)	Animated GIF Files Lance-nosed chameleon (walking) Chameleon (eating a grasshopper) Ringtail lemur (turns to look at you) Black lemur at Nosy Komba Verreaux's sifaka hopping at Berenty Reserve

(*) = Revision

My Photos

This is a very small selection of the many holiday photos I have taken over the years. I have only added photos where I think they may be useful (or better) than ones already present. I avoid removing other people’s photos, instead adding mine to sit alongside, or as part of a gallery section. If you need a picture, video clip or GIF (mainly of wildlife), just ask and you may be given.

British Birds

Various photos of British birds (2010 - date)

Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
Rook

Madagascar Lemurs

I have been to Madagascar twice; once in 2003 and again in 2014. Most of the photos (and video) concentrate on the lemurs I saw, although there's inevitably a large number of photos of the birds and other wildlife. I have only uploaded photos here used on other WikipediA pages.

Male Black lemur at Nosy Komba
Male Black lemur at Nosy Komba
Male Black lemur at Nosy Komba
Black-and-white ruffed lemur at Lemurs' Park
Black-and-white ruffed lemur at Lemurs' Park
Black-and-white ruffed lemur at Lemurs' Park
Common brown lemur at Lemurs' Park
Common brown lemur at Lemurs' Park
Coquerel's sifaka at Lemurs' Park
Crowned sifaka at Lemurs' Park
Crowned sifaka at Lemurs' Park
Diademed sifaka and baby at Périnet
Diademed sifaka and baby at Périnet
Diademed sifaka at Périnet
Eastern lesser bamboo lemur at Lemurs' Park
Eastern lesser bamboo lemur at Lemurs' Park
Hubbard's sportive lemur, Zombitse NP
Hubbard's sportive lemur, Zombitse NP
Indri at Périnet
Indri at Périnet
Indri at Périnet
Mongoose lemur at Lemurs' Park
Ring-tailed lemur at Lemurs' Park
Ring-tailed lemur at Lemurs' Park
Red-fronted brown lemur at Lemur Island, Vakona Forest Lodge
Red-fronted brown lemur (deep in thought) as Isalo National Park
Red-fronted brown lemur at Isalo National Park
Red-fronted brown lemur at Isalo National Park
Red-fronted brown lemur at Isalo National Park
Red-fronted brown lemur (showing teeth) at Isalo National Park
Rufus (or Red or Brown) Mouse Lemur at Lemurs' Park
Verreaux's sifaka hopping at Berenty Reserve

Madagascar Birds

Benson's rock thrush (male)
Benson's rock thrush (female)
Chabert vanga
Crested drongo holding a frog
Grey Emutail (or Feather-tailed warbler)
Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
Madagascan Wagtail
Red-tailed tropicbird (young)
Red-tailed tropicbird (nesting)
Sakalava Weaver (f)
Sakalava Weaver (f)
White-fronted Plover at Nosy Ve
White-browed hawk-owl at Berenty Reserve (2003)

Insects

Malagasy Lantern Bug Nymph (Zanna madagascariensis)
Elephant Head Caterpiller (Deilephila elpenor) showing size
Elephant Head Caterpiller (Deilephila elpenor) showing head and spine
Elephant Head Caterpiller (Deilephila elpenor) showing body segments and 8 feet