User:Hoktiwe

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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:


 * Music, and especially jazz.


 * Chess and chess players.


 * 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.


 * Indigenous peoples of the Americas.


 * History of religions.


 * 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.


 * Universities and scholars.


 * Communism.


 * Leftism in general.

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)