User:Academic Challenger

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[edit] About Me

Hi there. I am known on Wikipedia as Academic Challenger. I chose this user name, Academic Challenger, because I am interested in academic subjects, the challenge of contributing to Wikipedia, and I was on a TV show called Academic Challenge in high school.

I began contributing to Wikipedia in late August 2003, and have edited nearly every day since then, with a few short wikibreaks lasting a month at the longest. I became an administrator in September 2004 with about 1200 edits, and reached 20000 edits in February 2007.

I am a young American male college student living in Northern California, majoring in politics. I have written hundreds of articles on American politicians (including beginning the articles on many current state governors and US senators), politicians from nearly every other country in the world, and edited thousands of other articles, mostly about twentieth century history and politics and contemporary politics, but I have also created and edited some articles on less recent periods of history, and other subjects such as music, literature and religion. These edits range from grammar corrections to factual corrections to NPOV changes to major expansion. Much of my own work has been changed or expanded, but much of my writing still remains, and I am proud that I edited some topics earlier in Wikipedia’s history at times when few others would edit them. Since becoming an administrator, I have been active in fighting vandalism, particularly by deleting junk pages, but also by reverting vandalism and blocking vandals. I became an administrator at a time when less experience in vandalfighting and other community activity was required, but I quickly became active in some of these areas. Since 2006 I have been patrolling Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Since about 2006, gradually my article creation has stopped, but I still try to take breaks from administrative tasks to edit articles, particularly on current political figures, and may still create articles occasionally. As of late 2007 I am beginning to concentrate on improving articles about people associated with the Soviet Left Opposition and the reaction against it. At the beginning of 2008, my real life became much more busy, and since then my participation on Wikipedia is not as much as it used to be. However, I don’t plan to quit.

I don’t comment on Articles for deletion and policy discussions very often, but I consider myself a moderate inclusionist and a strong believer in the truly revolutionary impact that Wikipedia has had on the world, and will comment in other discussions more if I feel that my input is more needed there than in other areas.

I am almost totally blind since birth, and edit Wikipedia using the Job Access With Speech software. For this reason, formatting can sometimes be difficult for me, but other than that it does not make my participation here much different.