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My name is Skylar. I have been totally blind since birth, and began editing Misplaced Pages at the age of 16 in 2003. My user name comes from the name of a high school TV game show I was on. I have been an administrator since 2004, and was very active until starting graduate school in 2009. Throughout that time, I created about 1000 articles, on subjects including American and world politics and political history, religion, literature, music, and blindness organizations/companies. I also improved the content of many other articles on those subjects. As an administrator, I was at one time among the most active ], speedily deleting thousands of pages which were indisputably inappropriate. I additionally reverted vandalism, and disciplined problematic users while mentoring new good contributors.
Welcome to my user page!


I have sporadically edited since 2009, and renewed my commitment to the free knowledge movement in 2019 when was founded. I and another blind administrator now seek to recruit new blind editors to Misplaced Pages and also improve the content of articles around blindness.
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I have always exclusively used the ] software for editing.


I earned my BA from ] in 2009 and my Ph.D. in political science from the ] in 2017. I taught college political science courses for nearly 10 years. Currently I work in the field of access technology, for the ].


I live with my wife Theresa and son Peter in ]. I enjoy playing and listening to music, having played piano since an early age, clarinet throughout middle and high school, and later singing in my Catholic church choir.



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==About Me==
==Introduction==
Hi there. I am known on Misplaced Pages as Academic Challenger. I will not disclose my real name on this website. I chose this user name, Academic Challenger, because I am interested in academic subjects, the challenge of contributing to Misplaced Pages, and I was on a TV show called Academic Challenge in high school.

I began contributing to Misplaced Pages in late August 2003. I edited anonymously for three months and then created this account on November 15, 2003. A year later, all but my first dozen or so anonymous edits got reattributed to this account. I became an administrator in September 2004, and I believe that I am now one of the top 500 contributors to this project.

I first discovered Misplaced Pages in 2002 while searching Google for ]. I was intrigued, but did not become a contributor and soon forgot about the website. I rediscovered it in August 2003 when I was searching Google for politicians who got assassinated. I found ] and started adding more people to it.

In 2005 I created accounts on several other wikis, including ], ], the Simple English Misplaced Pages and the Spanish Misplaced Pages. However, I do not edit these sites much and will continue to spend nearly all my WikiTime on Misplaced Pages.

In December 2005 someone created an account called User:Academic Challenger on Wikinews. However, this is not me.

==My Life and Interests==

I am a young American male currently attending college in northern California. I am studying for a degree in political science. My main academic interests are history and politics. I am also interested in music and literature. Politically I am a Progressive member of the ] though I make sure to edit articles about American politicians with a neutral point of view. I am almost totally blind, and edit Misplaced Pages using a computer with the ] software.

==My Areas of focus on Misplaced Pages==
I began my contributions to Misplaced Pages by creating and expanding articles about twentieth century and current political figures, particularly american politicians but also politicians from other countries. I have probably edited an article about almost every country in the world, and I also update articles about countries and political parties, as well as politicians from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. I still significantly contribute to those areas, but I also occasionally write about other topics such as music and literature. Since I became an administrator in September 2004, I have been active in deleting junk pages that have just been created. I am an avid patroller of Special:Newpages. I also warn vandals, occasionally block them and fix new pages which need cleanup. My user page has been vandalized about 20 times. In December 2005, when anonymous contributors were prohibited from creating articles, I started doing a lot less New Pages patrol because the number of junk pages being created fell so much, though since January 2006 I have been doing more newpages patrol again as the amount of junk pages is going back up. I then started doing Recent Changes patrol, and revert vandalism wherever I find it. On April 5 2006 I made my hundredth block.

Ever since I started contributing to Misplaced Pages, I have enjoyed reading pages about vandals and problem users such as ] and more recently ], as well as ]. I enjoy reading about the insanity of the many vandals and trolls we have here, though I am glad to be a useful contributor and not to be a vandal or troll. I do not vote on AFD very often, but I consider myself to be a moderate inclusionist.

One of my most significant projects was in late 2003 when I created articles about most of the current (at that time) members of the ] and many state governors of the United States. By the time I became an administrator I had a bit over 1000 edits. As of September 2005, the second aniversary of my joining Misplaced Pages, I had abit over 5000 edits. I consider myself to be an acute wikiholic, though I have many other interests, including ones not involving the Internet! Though I have generally edited almost every day for the past 3 years, I have taken some wikibreaks for traveling, including long ones in July 2004 and June/July 2005. I believe that editing Misplaced Pages helps me deal with stress.
I also restructure and modify my user page every few months.

On March 2, 2006, I reached 8000 edits. About 3/4 of these are in the article space, and most of the rest are in the user talk space, particularly from warning vandals. I have also deleted several thousand junk pages.
In May 2006 I made my 10000th edit, and later in the year I reached 12000 edits.
I currently edit almost every day, and though I may not always be able to keep this level of activity, for now I will continue to expand my work here, though I will probably not be creating many new articles in the near future.

==Favorite websites==
Favorite websites besides Misplaced Pages
http://www.rulers.org
(political information).
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
(the online books page)
http://www.google.com
Search engine.
http://groups.google.com
http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=xx-elmer&tab=wg&q=
Usenet, including archive for the last 20 years.
http://news.google.com

Here is a list of articles that I have started. I began work on this in November 2004 when I saw that other users have one. It is by no means complete, and most of these articles have been expanded much since I first wrote them. This also does not include some articles that I have worked a lot on expanding, but I may create a list for those later.

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Latest revision as of 15:39, 30 November 2024

My name is Skylar. I have been totally blind since birth, and began editing Misplaced Pages at the age of 16 in 2003. My user name comes from the name of a high school TV game show I was on. I have been an administrator since 2004, and was very active until starting graduate school in 2009. Throughout that time, I created about 1000 articles, on subjects including American and world politics and political history, religion, literature, music, and blindness organizations/companies. I also improved the content of many other articles on those subjects. As an administrator, I was at one time among the most active New Page patrollers, speedily deleting thousands of pages which were indisputably inappropriate. I additionally reverted vandalism, and disciplined problematic users while mentoring new good contributors.

I have sporadically edited since 2009, and renewed my commitment to the free knowledge movement in 2019 when WikiBlind was founded. I and another blind administrator now seek to recruit new blind editors to Misplaced Pages and also improve the content of articles around blindness.

I have always exclusively used the Job Access With Speech software for editing.

I earned my BA from Saint Mary's College of California in 2009 and my Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2017. I taught college political science courses for nearly 10 years. Currently I work in the field of access technology, for the Braille Institute.

I live with my wife Theresa and son Peter in Santa Barbara, California. I enjoy playing and listening to music, having played piano since an early age, clarinet throughout middle and high school, and later singing in my Catholic church choir.


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My Awards

For your many contributions on political figures world-wide, I award you this barnstar. Isomorphic


For fighting vandals above and beyond the call of duty, I hereby award you this Barnstar.--FWDixon 13:19, 23 August 2005 (UTC)



I, V. Molotov, hereby give you this Working Man's Barnstar for taking out the garbage in Misplaced Pages.

Take care, Molotov (talk) 18:58, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
For fighting vandals above and beyond the call of duty, I hereby award you this Barnstar.-- Vufors 07:38, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


For fighting vandals above and beyond the call of duty, I hereby award you this Barnstar.-- Arhain 08:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


For fighting vandals above and beyond the call of duty, I hereby award you this Barnstar.-- Doobi18 07:38, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


For fighting vandals above and beyond the call of duty, I hereby award you this Barnstar.-- Howdyhody 10:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


I, Kukini, hereby award Academic Challenger the WikiDefender Barnstar for incredibly efficient and consistent wikidefense. Kukini 23:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)














For being self-important and conceited, I award you this barnstar.--68.4.58.77 00:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for all the reasons everyone else did Earth KING 23:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For removing 9000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Misplaced Pages and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing nature of this hard work (clearing CSD). Regards, Blnguyen
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for your tireless ongoing efforts in countering vandalism on Misplaced Pages - every time I seem to go to revert something, you always seem to beat me! Keep up the great work in keeping Misplaced Pages in pristine condition. Daniel.Bryant (aka Killfest2) 05:18, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For leaving your personal thoughts and opinions at the door and working against vandalism of the Prussian Blue (duo) article by a vandal with whom others may have sympathized. Regards, Nick—/Contribs 03:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
The Surreal Barnstar
For helping me with editing when I was first introduced to Misplaced Pages. Thank you. Sharkface217 00:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
For your contributions to Misplaced Pages and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
by Pedia-I
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I Kevin Kahle 03:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)Kevin Kahle give you this banstar for helping stop vandalism on Misplaced Pages!
〈REDVEЯS〉 awards this Barnstar to Academic Challenger for ace vandal fighting.

Thanks for the rv on my user page, mate! 〈REDVEЯS〉 21:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For continuing your sterling efforts fighting vandals, I hereby award you this barnstar. Colds7ream 09:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Everywhere I go, especially WP:AIV, Academic Challenger is always there, helping out and blocking vandals. He does an amazing job, and I don't know what AIV would do without him! Thanks for reverting vandalism and making Misplaced Pages even better then it already is! Chickyfuzz14 05:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
Jackrm is awarding Academic Challenger a Special Barnstar for being a great admin at times when there is a low ammount of active admins due to the time, and for deleting those darn nonsense pages! → jacĸrм ( talk | sign ) 07:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Good job.The4532 (talk) 17:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my RfA! It was closed as successful with 58 supporting, 0 opposing, and 2 neutral. I hope to demonstrate that your trust in me is rightly placed and am always open to critiques and suggestions. Cheers. MBisanz 04:33, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
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The Mighty Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
In recognition & thanks for your heroic efforts in fighting vandals, improving all Misplaced Pages articles and adding to our sum of knowledge! Dreadstar † 16:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
I am awarding this because you are an administrator. Thank you for all that you do. LAAFan review 23:26, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
El Sombrero Barnstar Award
You deserve this award for contributing to content of interest to the Latinos WikiProject. Outstanding contributions are generally about articles pertaining to Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. LatinoMuslim 02:13, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
You're a really good general contributer to Misplaced Pages! Keep up the good work! Advanceforward (talk) 12:44, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
The Administrator's Barnstar
For dealing with my reports to AIV so efficiently. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 22:15, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
I dont understand why you are saying that my wikipedia post is an advert. Its not an advert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Online_architectural_plan_local_authority_approval 

A4architect (talk) 09:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
learn to tolerate the need for the world to get information in a fair manner. Refrain from selective wikipedia publishing of info. A4architect (talk) 09:40, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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