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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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=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

=Articles created=

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=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. {{Icon|DYK}} 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. {{Icon|DYK}} Linda Taylor - an American criminal

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  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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  4. Template:Avery Hopwood - navigation box
  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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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For all the quality work on the Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism. (yours -- 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. --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. {{=)}} SoWhy 20:34, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for your contributions. SwisterTwister talk 04:19, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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For extraordinary service in the improvement of Murray Rothbard


SPECIFICO talk 23:45, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Barnstar of Diligence

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | 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)

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style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For developing articles in the sorely underrepresented topic of theater history. Bravo! BobAmnertiopsis∴ChatMe! 20:11, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

{{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,}} --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 Wikipedia peer review! --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. Sagecandor (talk) 05:31, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping me delete superfluous subpages Dreamy Jazz talk | contribs 21:18, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

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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. TheSandDoctor Talk 05:27, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

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