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Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan king Lars Porsena of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium. By defending the narrow end of the bridge, he and his companions were able to hold off the attacking army long enough to allow other Romans to destroy the bridge behind him, blocking the Etruscans' advance and saving the city. This fanciful engraving of Cocles was produced in 1586 by the German-born Dutch printmaker Hendrick Goltzius. The full-length portrait shows him holding a raised sword in his right hand and a shield in his left. In the lower right of the background, Cocles takes on an army by himself. Engraving credit: Hendrick Goltzius Archive More featured pictures

I'm an academic in Information Systems, although my undergraduate and most of my postgraduate work was in philosophy. I'm interested in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Adelaide, Philosophy, Anime and a number of computing and Information Systems subjects — especially as regards Knowledge Management, which is my main area of academic study.

I tend to edit widely, as often I wish to improve articles because I see them as important for Wikipedia, rather than because I'm interested in the topic (although I have rather eclectic tastes and reasonably liberal sentiments). I have access to a number of good databases thanks to academia, so I'm not bad at referencing, and I'm always willing to give it a shot when asked. Generally I'll help wherever I can, and I particularly enjoy that feeling which comes from being useful. :) I've also got one of those new digital camera things, and I enjoy taking photos.

Although she rarely edits (try as I might to convince her otherwise) my wife has been known to use her Ruth-AnneMJ account. So we may edit from the same network location.

The extent of my involvement in these articles varies — from major editing and almost complete rewrites, to simply adding references to an already excellent page or helping to establish notability. Drive-by-edits, however, where I add just a couple of references or make some small changes, don't make the list — if the article is here, I'm hoping to make some sort of significant input. I've listed them here mostly so that I can get quick access to them when required. I'm also listing the status of the articles, so that I can keep track, but this doesn't mean that I'm claiming credit for the status: it may simply be that it was already a good or featured article, but I added extra information here and there. Plus, the single coolest aspect of Wikipedia, from my perspective, is that articles are collaborative endeavors. :)

These are articles for which I'm semi-actively editing or researching. This can take a while.

• Artificial stupidity
• Australian Farmer
• Belldandy
• Big Lobster
• Big Orange (South Australia)
• Big Rocking Horse
• Blanche Cave
• Cleopatra 2525
• Clovelly Park, South Australia
• Club Penguin
• Euthanasia
• List of ships of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company
• Kender
• Louis Laybourne Smith‎
• Map the Miner
• National War Memorial (South Australia)
• Paladine
• Quentin Bryce
• Senang Hati Foundation
• South African War Memorial (South Australia)
• Turing test
• List of Oh My Goddess episodes
• Warriparinga

"Recently Completed" doesn't mean "now at Featured status" so much as "I don't think I can find anything else to add at the moment". These are articles which I feel I can put aside for a bit, unless I stumble across some extra sources with which to expand them further.

• Cane toad
• Christian science fiction
• Dietrich v The Queen
• Frog cake
• Illawarra Steam Navigation Company
• Jeff Grubb
• Marion railway station, Adelaide‎
• Marvel Universe Online
• Mount Osmond, South Australia
• Red Hand of Doom‎
• Shrine of Remembrance
• Waterfall Gully, South Australia

The following articles are ones which I hope to work on in the future. My general policy is that I shouldn't vote to keep an article at AfD unless I'm also willing to help develop the article, (noting that it might not need my help), so some of these are ones which need work but survived AfD, and some are just articles which I'd rather like to work on when time permits.

• Bow High School
• Brain in a vat
• Erik Mona
• Knowledge Management
• Margaret Lindsay (1726 - 1782)
• Marion, South Australia
• Mitchell Park, South Australia
• Oaklands railway station, Adelaide
• Swarnamalya
• The Dresden Files

• Wikipedia:Harvard referencing
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Today
• Rescue category
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• Allen Varney
• The Escapist

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• culteducation.com
• heatst.com
• onangrygamer.net
• psychologydictionary.com

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