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User:Hoktiwe

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I do not edit or otherwise contribute to any WikiMedia article or project on behalf of any employer, client, or affiliated person, organization, or other entity, nor do I receive or solicit any compensation for any edits or other contributions.
Visiting Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Hello there. I'm a wikipedian based in New Orleans. I mostly edit categories on pages, perhaps due to the fact that I'm professionally trained as as librarian, even if I do other sorts of work at present. (I added almost all of the categories to the entry for Subrata Dasgupta, for example.) I also hold a doctorate in cognitive science, specializing in scientific reasoning and philosophy of science, as well as undergraduate degrees in philosophy and biblical studies.

I edit pages according to my academic training, personal interests, cultural backgrounds, and ethnicity. Two articles I've put a good bit of work into, though I am not the originator of either, are the entries for John Marenbon and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Check those out!

In a deep sort of way, I'm from Louisiana, and am a person of First Nations and Louisiana Creole ancestry. I have an interest in the following topics on here, in no particular order:

  • All things Louisiana.
  • For whatever reason, I seem to edit a good number of pages about British people, perhaps because I'm somewhat of an Anglophile.
  • Pages of people I personally know, though not for pay or anything like that. Sometimes if you know someone, it's easier to identify citable sources, etc.


Thanks for reading, and thank you for editing wikipedia. I think wikipedia is why the Internet exists. When I think of people whose ideas contributed to the Internet, such as Vannevar Bush in "As We May Think", I am struck by how much wikipedia fulfills the original vision of bringing knowledge to the people, and especially to underserved communities.

Best wishes, Hoktiwe (talk) 00:05, 24 March 2018 (UTC)