RogueScholar

RogueScholar
Forever falling short of his own expectations
RogueScholar ; Forever falling short of his own expectations
— Wikipedian ♂ —
Born	Peter Joseph Mello; August 16, 1981 (age 43); 00:38 PDT; Fort Bragg, California, USA
Pronouns	he/him/his
Nationality	American
Country	United States of America
Current location	Fort Bragg, California, USA
Current time	13:04 PST [refresh]
Ethnicity	Portuguese: 50%; Finn: 25%; Swede: 25%;
Race	Caucasian; 50% Mediterranean (R1b); 50% Nordic (N1a1a);
Height	182 cm
Weight	97 kg
Hair	Black
Eyes	Hazel
Handedness	Right
Blood type	A positive
Sexuality	Pansexual
IQ	142
Personality type	ISTP
Alignment	Chaotic neutral
Family and friends
Marital status	Single (never married)
Siblings	Brother: 1 (younger, living)
Parents	Mother: 1 (living); Father: 1 (living);
Education and employment
Occupation	Systems analyst
Primary school	Redwood Elementary School; Dana Gray Elementary School;
Intermediate school	Fort Bragg Middle School
High school	Fort Bragg High School
College	College of the Redwoods
University	University of California, Berkeley; Oregon State University;
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	Software development; Contributing to Wikimedia projects;
Religion	Atheistic humanism
Politics	Democratic socialist
Aliases	PoopDawg (yeah, don't ask)
Movies	People Will Talk; The Mission; The Sunset Limited; The Godfather; Pulp Fiction;
Shows	The West Wing; The Practice; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Damages; Fringe; MacGyver;
Books	Man's Search for Meaning; The Myth of Sisyphus; Letter to His Father; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Lord of the Rings;
Music	Elton John; Neil Diamond; Dean Martin; REO Speedwagon; Glee Cast;
Interests
	Education/Academia; Political Science;
Contact info
Website	http://rscholar.keybase.pub/
Blog	https://www.pjm.one/
Email	adminpetermello.net
ICQ	1604526
GTalk	roguescholar420gmail.com
XMPP	viceemperor816livejournal.com
Skype	roguescholar420
IRC	RogueScholar on Libera Chat
Discord	RogueScholar#6251
Flickr	petermello
GitHub	RogueScholar
Instagram	SingularErgoSum
LinkedIn	peterjmello
Pinterest	SingularErgoSum
Twitter	SingularErgoSum
YouTube	RogueScholar420
RogueScholar subpages
	common.css; common.js; Edit stats; User sandbox; User sandbox 1; To do; To do (talk); userbox.js;
Account statistics
Joined	October 13, 2003
First edit	October 13, 2003
Confirmed	October 23, 2003
Extended confirmed	July 21, 2019
Edit count	4811
Signature	— ℛogueScholar ₨🗩
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Userboxes
	This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years; (21 years, 1 month and 10 days)
	RogueScholar is also a user on Wikimedia Commons
	This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion.
	This user is a Leo.
	This user is a resident native citizen of the U.S. State of California.
	This user is of Finnish heritage.
	This user is of Azorean heritage.
Barnstars & Services Awards
	This editor has been awarded the; Barnstar of Diligence
	This editor is a Yeoman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.
Wikipedia
	This user has created 8 articles on the English Wikipedia, and 6 elsewhere.
	This user is a member of the Association of Structurist Wikipedians.
	This user is a member of the Association of Eventualist Wikipedians.
incl	This user is an inclusionist.
incr	This editor is an incrementalist.
[[]]	This user uses the source editor as his primary editor.
	This user wants to compile and preserve the sum of all human knowledge.
	This user has almost as many userscripts as they have userboxes.
	This user may sometimes share an IP address with JewelleL57.
	This user previously used another account: ViceEmperor816.
Identity
	This user is a systems analyst.
	This user plays the piano.
	This user is a secular humanist.
	This user is interested in higher education.
OSU	This user is a fan of the ; Oregon State Beavers.
Academic pedigree
	This user attends or attended the ; University of California, Berkeley.
BA	This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Statistics.
OSU	This user attends or attended; Oregon State University
BA	This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy.
WikiProject membership
	This user is a participant in WikiProject Schools.
	This user is a participant in WikiProject Short descriptions.
	This user participates in; WikiProject California.
	This user participates in; WikiProject California's; Cal State University task force
	This user is a participant in; WikiProject Finland
UC	This user is a member of; WikiProject; University of California
	This user edits articles about California State Routes.
	This user is a participant in WikiProject Education.
	This user is a participant in WikiProject Software.
	This user is a participant in WikiProject Higher education.
Babel
en-5	This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
pt-2	Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível médio de português.
es-1	Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.
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PGP key	0x3F3BCA1E
Keybase	rscholar
Trakt	roguescholar
Stack Exchange	peter-j-mello
Slant	RogueScholar
Quora	Peter-J-Mello
Open Hub	RogueScholar
Launchpad	roguescholar
ISA ribbon	The Yeoman lv 3, Awarded for being a Registered Editor for 15 months and completion of 5,000 edits

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Meta-links: Admin Score • Activity Log Favorite articles: OSU • TomatoUSB • Mendocino Masonic Hall • Fort Bragg High School • Fort Bragg Unified School District

Committed identity:
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is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

Short URL: w.wiki/8td

Beloved pages

About Me

I've been a contributor to Wikipedia since October 13, 2003. I wouldn't have predicted then that more than 15 years later I would still be active here... Honestly, the fact that I've remembered all the various passwords I've used for this account along the way is even more remarkable.

This editor is a
Yeoman Editor
and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

What brought me here originally was moving to Corvallis, Oregon to pursue a second baccalaureate and very quickly contracting a strain of what can only be described as rabid fandom for the school's athletics teams, the Beavers, something I missed out on during my first round of college student life. I remember visiting the Oregon State University page back then and being aghast at how poorly it represented my new font of all things black and orange... Oh, wait a second, this can't be right. I just typed in the name of our football stadium in the search box, hit Enter...and THERE'S NOT EVEN A PATHETIC STUB PAGE?!?!?! WHAT KIND OF ENCYCLOPEDIA DO YOU THINK YOU'RE RUNNING HERE WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A PAGE FOR THE GREATEST PLACE ON EARTH?!?!?!

Apologies for the shouting, I'm a passionate person by nature and in those days lacked much restraint. I didn't pound my fist on the desk or anything, I'm a man of letters and abhor caveman antics, but some visible gaseous by-products of combustion did certainly exit my ears.

So yeah, that's pretty much how it started with Wikipedia and me. I did an honest, but in hindsight. mediocre job of developing the school's page. It goes without saying that I damn well created a page for Reser Stadium that I still think added a significant amount of legitimacy to this whole endeavour back in those formative years. I created a category for the athletic conference we belong to, and then for years did little more than putter around with other articles as the interest and opportunity arose, which was incidental and very infrequently. Then before I could ever believe it, someone contacted me about my 20-year high school reunion. I bravely fought back the tears until the call was over, but what happened then wasn't a pretty sight. If there was ever a day that I questioned my commitment to sobriety...well, you get the picture.

The reunion was predictably awful. I never fit in with my classmates then, which was as much my fault as theirs. Social skills exist decidedly on an axis of integers, which include all the positive and negative whole numbers, and at the time you needed binoculars to see how deep in negative territory mine were. Further compounding matters was the ugly truth that we all seemed about as haggard and disaffected as you would expect the vanguard of Generation X to appear at their first significant high school reunion, and I fear that we're nowhere near the nadir of our arc yet.

In the weeks that followed though I was plagued by the sense that I was not at all at the place in life where my high school self would've imagined I'd be. More to the point, I wasn't behaving like the man that should've grown out of that promising but socially inept boy from high school. Where was the commitment to making a difference in the world that drew me to join Greenpeace back in junior high? Where was the guy who spent his lunches digitizing the school library's entire periodical collection during junior year when computers replaced the card catalog, just because he wanted to leave things in better shape than he found them? Where was...a lot of stuff. It's easy to trick yourself into thinking that your late 30s are precisely the time to be myopic and self-interested and crush it on the career path, but that does a profound disservice to the roughly ten or twelve faces that weren't at the reunion because they couldn't be bothered, but rather because their Earthly affairs had come to a detestably early conclusion. I should've taken a picture of that poster board covered with photos of them, but really there wasn't a need, it's the kind of thing that appears to stick with you.

So I'm back here again! Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. No surprise I'm working on the Wiki page of another school, this time it's my old high school. Believe it or not but it was in worse shape than the one for OSU was all the way back in '03. And true to form, I'm doing another mediocre job at improving it, though this time I have the consolation of all the infernal bureaucracy you all have created while I was mostly kibitzing. Where's the fast-and-loose rush to "write now, source later" that seemed so innocent and joyous when I started out? Parts of it weren't pretty, I'll admit, but I think most of it turned out fairly well in the end. Now? Your clicky finger barely has time to get off the Publish button and here comes some editor who, hand to God, has 7,000 edits to his name, 92.3% of which are removing what others have written because it's not formatted "according to Hoyle" or because your source (while valid and authoritative) was six or seven years old. Looks like I came back not a moment too soon.

We're gonna crank up the boombox and edit with one hand while playing foosball with the other like the old days, okay? Sure, some rules are important but let's not lose sight of the fact that the holes aren't even a tenth of the way filled yet! We're still better served mostly using shovels to keep filling them in and not grabbing the soil compactor every few hours to level the loose fill. At least that's how I see it, though this place has a funny way of changing one's perspective on a lot of unforeseen topics, or hadn't you noticed? ;)

Ways to contact me

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Username history

When I first joined Wikipedia my username was ViceEmperor816 and remained so until I submitted a request for it to be changed to RogueScholar, which was granted on January 13, 2018. The earlier username was one that dated back to my very early days online as a teenager (hence the inclusion of my date of birth as a pseudo-UID at the end) and had long since abandoned. The change was to achieve some continuity among all the sites to which I'm a contributor and certainly not to distance myself from any earlier actions. If anything, I've made much more of a ruckus around here since changing it, which perhaps can be attributed to a greater feeling of authenticity here since it was changed.

Milestones

Milestone edits and grants of rights/awards
Edit	Date	Grant of rights/award	Action taken	Edit summary
1^st	Oct 13, 2003	Registered user rights/ Registered Editor SA	Created Jogo do pau (View edit)	None
10^th	Oct 18, 2003	Confirmed user rights	Created Oregon University System (View edit)	Creation
50^th	Sep 12, 2004	Registered Editor ISA - Level 2	Edited Oregon State University (View edit)	Moved logo
100^th	Nov 28, 2005	Registered Editor ISA - Level 3	Edited Oregon State University (View edit)	→‎Athletics
150^th	Dec 13, 2016	Registered Editor ISA - Level 4	Edited Mitochondrial DNA (View edit)	→‎Male inheritance: Caused 'germline' in first paragraph to link to its eponymous article
200^th	Aug 9, 2018	Novice Editor SA	Edited Fort Bragg Unified School District (View edit)	Figured out those undocumented fields in the infobox are probably that way for a reason...
400^th	Jul 2, 2019	Novice Editor ISA - Level 2	Edited Tomato (firmware) (View edit)	Rewrite conclusion of history section
500^th	Jul 22, 2019	Extended confirmed user rights	Edited User:RogueScholar (View edit)	Decrease font size of committed identity SHA-512 hash string
600^th	Aug 2, 2019	Novice Editor ISA - Level 3	Edited Talk:Arbor Park School District 145 (View edit)	Assessment: Chicago (Stub/Low); Illinois (Stub/Low); Schools (Stub/Low) (Rater)
800^th	Aug 5, 2019	Novice Editor ISA - Level 4	Edited Talk:Camino Del Rey Association (View edit)	Assessment: Schools (Stub/Low) (Rater)
1000^th	Aug 8, 2019	Apprentice Editor SA	Edited File:CIF-NCS Coastal Mountain Conference Logo.png (View edit)	m Fix typo in describing file size
1213^th	Aug 14, 2019	Received first barnstar (The Barnstar of Diligence)	Moved Oregon Chief Education Office (View edit)	m RogueScholar moved page Oregon's Chief Education Office to Oregon Chief Education Office: Per MOS:AT: Legislative language creating and sunsetting the office calls it Oregon Chief Education Office
1250^th	Aug 15, 2019	Apprentice Editor ISA - Level 2	Edited User:RogueScholar/sandbox 1 (View edit)	Begin draft of Mendocino Coast Health Care District article
1500^th	Aug 23, 2019	Apprentice Editor ISA - Level 3	Edited Talk:Superintendent (education) (View edit)	Assessment: Education (C/Mid); +Schools (C/Low) (Rater)
1750^th	Aug 28, 2019	Apprentice Editor ISA - Level 4	Edited Talk:Fort Lee School District (View edit)	Assessment: Schools (C/Low); New Jersey (C/Low) (Rater)
2000^th	Sep 2, 2019	Journeyman Editor SA	Edited Fort Bragg High School (View edit)	Change logo filename to match recent transfer to Commons
2500^th	Sep 14, 2019	Journeyman Editor ISA - Level 2	Edited Ukiah High School (View edit)	Update infobox to current parameters and more current datums
3000^th	Oct 3, 2019	Journeyman Editor ISA - Level 3	Edited Template:Merge school/doc (View edit)	Add to category WikiProject Schools templates
3500^th	Nov 14, 2019	Journeyman Editor ISA - Level 4	Edited Category:Stub-Class school articles (View edit)	Switch page contents to template-generated for intra-WikiProject consistency

Pages created

Articles added to English Wikipedia
Name	Date	Time	Orig. size	Curr. size^[a]	Article grade	Links^[b]
Jogo do pau	Oct 13, 2003	17:08 PDT	0.3 KiB	6.9 KiB	Start-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Oregon State Board of Higher Education	Oct 18, 2003	11:03 PDT	0.4 KiB	5.6 KiB	Start-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Benny Beaver	Oct 18, 2003	12:20 PDT	0.5 KiB	9.3 KiB	Start-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Oregon University System	Oct 18, 2003	18:35 PDT	0.7 KiB	2.8 KiB	Stub-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Reser Stadium	Jun 22, 2004	18:38 PDT	0.4 KiB	19.4 KiB	C-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Fort Bragg Unified School District	Aug 9, 2018	10:02 PDT	5.1 KiB	22.9 KiB	C-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Noyo River Bridge	Aug 20, 2019	04:43 PDT	10.5 KiB	10.5 KiB	Start-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
Anderson Valley Unified School District	Aug 25, 2019	05:18 PDT	7.2 KiB	7.6 KiB	Start-class	Top edits • Metadata • Revision history • Pageviews
^ As of August 25, 2019 ^ Pageview graphs show visits by month from July 2015 to July 2019

Commons Gallery

These are the files that I've uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as of August 27^th, 2019 with hover links to the articles that prompted me to do so:

Service award progress

Currently, this editor has earned the Yeoman Editor, level 2 service award.

To get to the next level, Yeoman Editor, level 3, he needs to meet the editing requirement.

Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 311 / 500 ]

62.2% completed

Interwiki account links

RogueScholar's Wikimedia accounts:

Meta	Commons	Wikidata	Wikivoyage	Wiktionary	Wikiquote	Wikitech	Phabricator

Wikibooks	Wikinews	Wikisource	Wikispecies	Wikiversity	Outreach	MediaWiki	Foundation

Inspiration

Wikipedia Motto of the Day:

→ True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

PGP key

Licensing

Multi-licensed with Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License version 3.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license version 3.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

[fn1-1] As of August 25, 2019

[fn2-2] Pageview graphs show visits by month from July 2015 to July 2019

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