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My name is Richard Lawrence. I created a userid as of July 10, 2005, although I contributed a few edits anonymously prior to that. I [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RL0919|became an administrator]] on the English Wikipedia on December 25, 2009 (local time).

As of August 2019, my most frequent areas of editing are around the following topics:

* Late 19th and early 20th century theater, mostly the creation and expansion of articles about plays, writers, and actors
* [[Ayn Rand]] and her writings, as well as related ideas, people, and organizations
* Admin handling of deletion requests, primarily at [[WP:AFD|Articles for deletion]] and [[WP:MFD|Miscellany for deletion]].

I have a currently-unused [[WP:Multiple Accounts|alternative account]] under [[User:NATE Account]], which was used exclusively (and rarely) for testing.

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===Featured articles===
Articles where I was a major contributor to achieving [[WP:FA|featured article]] status:

#''[[Night of January 16th]]'' - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Night of January 16th/archive3|20 November 2016]] - TFA: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 16, 2017|16 January 2017]]
#[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)|''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1887 play)]] - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)/archive1|18 March 2017]] - TFA: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 9, 2017|9 May 2017]]
#''[[The Demi-Virgin]]'' - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Demi-Virgin/archive1|14 May 2017]] - TFA: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 3, 2017|3 June 2017]]
#[[The Blue Flame (play)|''The Blue Flame'' (play)]] - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Blue Flame (play)/archive1|31 July 2017]] - TFA: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 21, 2017|21 September 2017]]
#''[[The Fountainhead]]'' - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Fountainhead/archive1|24 October 2017]] - TFA: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 7, 2018|7 May 2018]]
#[[The Bat (play)|''The Bat'' (play)]] - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Bat (play)/archive1|27 November 2017]] - TFA: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 23, 2018|23 August 2018]]
#[[The Unconquered (1940 play)|''The Unconquered'' (1940 play)]] - Promoted: [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Unconquered (1940 play)/archive1|24 July 2019]] - TFA [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 13, 2020|13 February 2020]]

Articles where I was a major contributor to keeping featured status for an article [[WP:FAR|under review]]:

#[[Harriet Tubman]] - Kept: [[Wikipedia:Featured article review/Harriet Tubman/archive1|18 November 2023]]

===Good articles===
Articles where I was a major contributor to achieving [[WP:GA|good article]] status (most later became featured articles):

#[[Ayn Rand]] - [[Talk:Ayn Rand/GA1|review]]
#''[[Night of January 16th]]'' - [[Talk:Night of January 16th/GA1|review]]
#''[[The Demi-Virgin]]'' - [[Talk:The Demi-Virgin/GA1|review]]
#[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)|''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1887 play)]] - [[Talk:Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play)/GA1|review]]
#[[The Blue Flame (play)|''The Blue Flame'' (play)]] - [[Talk:The Blue Flame (play)/GA1|review]]
#''[[The Fountainhead]]'' - [[Talk:The Fountainhead/GA2|review]]
#[[The Unconquered (1940 play)|''The Unconquered'' (1940 play)]] - [[Talk:The Unconquered (1940 play)/GA1|review]]

====GA review log====
Articles I reviewed for GA status:
#[[Talk:Lizabeth Scott/GA1]] - 7 July 2014 - failed
#[[Talk:Michael Kidd/GA1]] - 8 July 2014 - passed
#[[Talk:Joss Whedon/GA1]] - 8 July 2014 - passed
#[[Talk:Merian C. Cooper/GA1]] - 8 November 2016 - passed
#[[Talk:Peter Dinklage/GA1]] - 15 November 2016 - passed
#[[Talk:Brothers Poem/GA1]] - 22 November 2016 - passed
#[[Talk:Battle Royale (novel)/GA1]] - 19 December 2016 - passed

===Articles created===
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===Major expansions===
I didn't create these articles, but I expanded them from short stubs to full articles.

#''[[Ayn Rand and the World She Made]]'' - a biography of Rand
#''[[The Romantic Manifesto]]'' - a book by Rand
#{{Icon|DYK}} [[Verna Hillie]] - an American actress
#''[[Philosophy: Who Needs It]]'' - a book by Rand
#''[[The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers]]'' - a posthumous book of Rand's lectures
#''[[The Early Ayn Rand]]'' - a posthumous book of Rand's unpublished writings
#{{Icon|DYK}} [[Linda Taylor]] - an American criminal

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#[[Template:Createdwith]] - flexible way to indicate what software was used to create an image, replacing multiple hardcoded templates
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#[[Template:Star of Sophia]] - barnstar for contributors to WikiProject Philosophy

== Kind regards from other editors ==
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For all the quality work on the [[Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism]]. (yours -- [[User:Karbinski|Karbinski]] ([[User talk:Karbinski|talk]]) 15:58, 29 May 2009 (UTC))
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For bold, extensive, evenhanded edits to [[John Prendergast]], 20 September 2009, and support to editors thereafter. --[[User:Whoosit|Whoosit]] ([[User talk:Whoosit|talk]]) 19:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for helping with the RFCs. Let's hope they will lead to a fruitful discussion. {{=)}} '''[[User:SoWhy|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color: #AC0000">So</span>]][[User talk:SoWhy|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color: #35628F">Why</span>]]''' 20:34, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for your contributions. [[User:SwisterTwister|<span style="color:green;">SwisterTwister</span>]] [[User talk:SwisterTwister|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]] 04:19, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | '''Presented to User  ‎RL0919'''
For extraordinary service in the improvement of [[Murray Rothbard]]
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[[User:SPECIFICO |<span style="color:#0011FF;"> '''SPECIFICO'''</span>]][[User_talk:SPECIFICO | ''talk'']]  23:45, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your diligent work in maintaining the neutrality of [[Objectivism (Ayn Rand)]], including providing several sources for clarity. [[User:Abierma3|Abierma3]] ([[User talk:Abierma3|talk]]) 22:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For developing articles in the sorely underrepresented topic of theater history. Bravo! [[User:Bobamnertiopsis|<b style="color:#660000; font-family:Andalus;">Bob</b><span style="color:#00FFCC;">Amnertiopsis</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Bobamnertiopsis|∴]][[User talk:Bobamnertiopsis|<sub style="color:#FF9999; font-family:Tunga;">ChatMe!</sub>]] 20:11, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
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{{user precious|header=works by Ayn Rand|thanks=for quality articles such as [[Ayn Rand]], [[Night of January 16th]] and [[The Demi-Virgin]], for your ambition to make [[The Fountainhead]] a GA, for admin services, for {{diff|Ayn Rand|516062555||explaining by edit summary}} and a detailed list of your contribs, - Richard,}} --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 08:43, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for your help at [[WP:PR|Wikipedia peer review]]! --[[User:Tom (LT)|Tom (LT)]] ([[User talk:Tom (LT)|talk]]) 21:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC) 
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Good job on the improvements to the article about the novel, ''[[The Fountainhead]]''.

It has seen a lot of good improvements from the prior GA review.

Good job on getting this article to GA quality. [[User:Sagecandor|Sagecandor]] ([[User talk:Sagecandor|talk]]) 05:31, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | The Portal Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions to [[WP:PORTAL|topic portals]].<br />''Thanks for helping me delete superfluous subpages'' [[User:Dreamy Jazz|Dreamy <i style="color:#d01e1e">'''Jazz'''</i>]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Dreamy Jazz|talk]]'' &#124; ''[[Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz|contribs]]''</sup> 21:18, 18 July 2018 (UTC)<br />
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Well done on your closure of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions]]. That was a complex discussion to close and you did so masterfully with a well written closing statement explaining your rationale. [[User:TheSandDoctor|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">The</span><span style="color:#009933; font-weight:bold;">SandDoctor</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:TheSandDoctor|<span style="color:#009933;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 05:27, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
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