User:RL0919

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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 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 Articles for deletion and Miscellany for deletion.

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

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• Updated location for Checklinks, Altviewer, etc: User:Dispenser
• Wikipedia:Citation templates
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Featured articles

Articles where I was a major contributor to achieving featured article status:

1. Night of January 16th - Promoted: 20 November 2016 - TFA: 16 January 2017
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) - Promoted: 18 March 2017 - TFA: 9 May 2017
3. The Demi-Virgin - Promoted: 14 May 2017 - TFA: 3 June 2017
4. The Blue Flame (play) - Promoted: 31 July 2017 - TFA: 21 September 2017
5. The Fountainhead - Promoted: 24 October 2017 - TFA: 7 May 2018
6. The Bat (play) - Promoted: 27 November 2017 - TFA: 23 August 2018
7. The Unconquered (1940 play) - Promoted: 24 July 2019 - TFA 13 February 2020

Articles where I was a major contributor to keeping featured status for an article under review:

1. Harriet Tubman - Kept: 18 November 2023

Good articles

Articles where I was a major contributor to achieving good article status (most later became featured articles):

1. Ayn Rand - review
2. Night of January 16th - review
3. The Demi-Virgin - review
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) - review
5. The Blue Flame (play) - review
6. The Fountainhead - review
7. The Unconquered (1940 play) - review

GA review log

Articles I reviewed for GA status:

1. Talk:Lizabeth Scott/GA1 - 7 July 2014 - failed
2. Talk:Michael Kidd/GA1 - 8 July 2014 - passed
3. Talk:Joss Whedon/GA1 - 8 July 2014 - passed
4. Talk:Merian C. Cooper/GA1 - 8 November 2016 - passed
5. Talk:Peter Dinklage/GA1 - 15 November 2016 - passed
6. Talk:Brothers Poem/GA1 - 22 November 2016 - passed
7. Talk:Battle Royale (novel)/GA1 - 19 December 2016 - passed

Major expansions

I didn't create these articles, but I expanded them from short stubs to full articles.

1. Ayn Rand and the World She Made - a biography of Rand
2. The Romantic Manifesto - a book by Rand
3. Verna Hillie - an American actress
4. Philosophy: Who Needs It - a book by Rand
5. The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers - a posthumous book of Rand's lectures
6. The Early Ayn Rand - a posthumous book of Rand's unpublished writings
7. Linda Taylor - an American criminal

Templates created

1. Template:Createdwith - flexible way to indicate what software was used to create an image, replacing multiple hardcoded templates
2. Template:Inactive admin - template for notifying admins who are losing their permissions due to inactivity
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5. Template:Mary Roberts Rinehart - navigation box
6. Template:Jørgen Leth - navigation box
7. Template:Mae West - navigation box
8. Template:Star of Sophia - barnstar for contributors to WikiProject Philosophy

Kind regards from other editors

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File:Original Barnstar.png The Original Barnstar For all the quality work on the Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism. (yours -- Karbinski (talk) 15:58, 29 May 2009 (UTC)) File:Modest Barnstar.png The Modest Barnstar For bold, extensive, evenhanded edits to John Prendergast, 20 September 2009, and support to editors thereafter. --Whoosit (talk) 19:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC) File:Kindness Barnstar Hires.png The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks for helping with the RFCs. Let's hope they will lead to a fruitful discussion. Template:=) SoWhy 20:34, 7 July 2011 (UTC) File:Special Barnstar Hires.png The Special Barnstar Thanks for your contributions. SwisterTwister talk 04:19, 19 May 2012 (UTC) File:BoNM - Austria Hires.png The Austrian Barnstar of National Merit Presented to User ‎RL0919 For extraordinary service in the improvement of Murray Rothbard SPECIFICO talk 23:45, 14 August 2013 (UTC) File:Barnstar of Diligence Hires.png The Barnstar of Diligence For your diligent work in maintaining the neutrality of Objectivism (Ayn Rand), including providing several sources for clarity. Abierma3 (talk) 22:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC) File:Saxe Theater, 1914.jpg Theatermaker Award For developing articles in the sorely underrepresented topic of theater history. Bravo! BobAmnertiopsis∴ChatMe! 20:11, 24 December 2016 (UTC) Template:User precious --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:43, 16 January 2017 (UTC) File:Feedback Responder Barnstar.png The Peer Review Barnstar Thanks for your help at Wikipedia peer review! --Tom (LT) (talk) 21:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC) File:Tireless Contributor Barnstar Hires.gif The Tireless Contributor Barnstar 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. Sagecandor (talk) 05:31, 27 July 2017 (UTC) File:Portal Barnstar Hires.png The Portal Barnstar The Portal Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions to topic portals. Thanks for helping me delete superfluous subpages Dreamy Jazz talk | contribs 21:18, 18 July 2018 (UTC) File:Administrator Barnstar Hires.png The Admin's Barnstar 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. TheSandDoctor Talk 05:27, 27 December 2022 (UTC)