user:Dirtlawyer1
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= Personal background =
Greetings. I'm Dirtlawyer1, a practicing attorney who specializes in commercial real estate development and related practice areas. If you came to my user page because you were curious what a "dirt lawyer" is, here's the answer: it's professional jargon commonly used by attorneys to refer to a lawyer whose practice includes real estate transactions; "dirt" is lawyer slang for "real estate."
I am originally from the State of Florida, but I am now a permanent resident of Atlanta, Georgia. I graduated from the University of Florida, and I remain an avid fan of the university's Florida Gators intercollegiate sports teams. I actively edit articles related to the university, college sports generally, professional baseball and football, Olympic swimming, and the City of Atlanta. I also actively participate in several WikiProjects whose scope includes those topics.
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= Wikipedia contributions =
I was primarily responsible for the elevation of the following fifteen Wikipedia articles to "Good Article" status, and the promotion of one of the fifteen to "Featured Article":
{{icon|FA}}{{icon|GA}} Andrew Sledd, Latin and Greek scholar, essayist, theology professor, university president;
{{icon|GA}} Robert Q. Marston, medical doctor, research scientist, director of the National Institutes of Health, university president;
{{icon|GA}} Albert A. Murphree, university president, mathematics professor;
{{icon|GA}} John J. Tigert, U.S. Commissioner of Education, university president, College Football Hall of Fame member;
{{icon|GA}} Theresa Andrews, competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist;
{{icon|GA}} Catie Ball, competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder;
{{icon|GA}} Robert Cade, medical doctor, university professor, research scientist, inventor of Gatorade;
{{icon|GA}} Tracy Caulkins, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder;
{{icon|GA}} Nicole Haislett, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, eight-time collegiate champion;
{{icon|GA}} Mike Heath, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, four-time collegiate champion;
{{icon|GA}} David Larson, competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder;
{{icon|GA}} Tim McKee, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic silver medalist;
{{icon|GA}} Mark Stockwell, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic medalist, sports administrator;
{{icon|GA}} Dara Torres, competition swimmer, twelve-time Olympic medalist, oldest swimmer to win an Olympic medal; and
{{icon|GA}} Mary Wayte, competition swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist, television sportscaster.
Wikipedia articles I have created include the following:
- Buster Bishop, two-time NCAA national championship men's golf coach;
- Andy Brandi, three-time NCAA national championship women's tennis coach;
- Jimmy Carnes, head coach of U.S. Olympic team, president of U.S. Track & Field Federation;
- Randy Reese, four-time AIAW/NCAA national championship swimming coach;
- Mimi Ryan, two-time NCAA national championship women's golf coach;
- Dennis K. Stanley, college football coach, founding dean of College of Health and Human Performance;
- List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members, Florida Gators athletes who have received the highest honor that the university bestows on its athletes;
- List of Florida Gators football All-Americans, Florida Gators football players who received All-American honors;
- Bruce Bennett, college football player, first-team All-American, CFL All-Star;
- Charlie LaPradd, college football player, first-team All-American, college president, entrepreneur; and
- Other articles I created are [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/?user=Dirtlawyer1&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects&limit=1000 listed here].
= Research access =
For other editors who need access to archival newspapers or academic journals for their researching, writing and editing of Wikipedia articles, I have access to Newspapers.com, NewspaperArchive.com and JSTOR via Wikipedia user accounts. If you require particular archival newspaper or academic journal articles for your Wikipedia work, please let me know and I will see if I can find the article you are seeking through these online services.
= Alternative accounts =
I have three alternative Wikipedia registered accounts: (1) Dirtlawyer2: Olympics, (2) Dirtlawyer3: Sock Hunter and (3) Dirtlawyer4: All-Americans. I use all three alternative accounts primarily to maintain large watch lists of certain categories of Wikipedia articles, and rarely make any edits from them.
= Wikipedia barnstars from fellow editors =
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|rowspan="2" valign="top" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The University of Florida Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about his alma mater, the University of Florida. Awarded by User:NorwalkJames, August 5, 2009. |
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|rowspan="2" valign="top" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: large; padding: 3; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Florida Gators Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about his favorite college sports teams, the Florida Gators. Awarded by User:NorwalkJames, August 5, 2009. |
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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | {{#ifeq:{{{2}}}|alt|100px|100px}} |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Original Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |For being such a great asset to the community and for working diligently to improve the encyclopedia. Cheers! —Eustress talk 15:38, 27 December 2010 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" valign="top" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Template Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |The favor has been returned—Thank you for moving and upgrading college basketball coaches' navboxes! Jrcla2 (talk) 14:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | In recognition of your unending quest to improve coverage of UF- related topics against the constant headwinds of wiki-nonsense. Zeng8r (talk) 17:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | {{#ifeq:alt|alt|100px|100px}} |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Teamwork Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Long overdue... I've been meaning to thank you for your work to con- tinue improving Florida–Georgia football rivalry. It's a topic about which both sides have strong passions, and you've helped reach compromises that were acceptable to both sides and made the art- icle better. Thanks for your work! -Jhortman (talk) 07:20, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Original Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Tate&diff=490212239&oldid=488927600= THIS]. It's nice to see great clean up on articles as opposed to having the article "tagged" for cleanup. Thanks for gett- ing dirty and doing work. Morning277 (talk) 12:26, 2 May 2012 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | {{#ifeq:alt|alt|100px|100px}} |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Teamwork Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For pitching in and wrapping up the Davis Tarwater Good Article review when the original nominator went missing. |
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|style="font-size:1.65em; padding:0; height: 1.1em;" | The Working Man's Barnstar |
style="border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Awarded for your outstanding motivational skills and organizational coding at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded, where you have made a huge difference. Your talents as a calming influence and mediator are also notable and welcome. For this page and your work else- where, you have earned my deep respect and gratitude! -- Jusdafax 23:32, 20 May 2013 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 60px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Half Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your work with Mr swordfish on loosing the Gordian Knot at the discus- sion on the Federalist. LHMask me a question 19:05, 14 October 2014 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" valign="left" | {{#ifeq:{{{2}}}|alt|100px|100px}} |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: left; height: 1.1em; color:#9D741A; font-family:Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica;" | The Socratic Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: left; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Very rarely do people take the time to do the research and set out the arguments as clearly, eloquently and methodically as you did in the AfD debate The Michigan - Toledo game. If that doesn't justify a Socratic barnstar, then I don't know what does. --Legis (talk - contribs) 06:04, 5 November 2014 (UTC) |
swimmers and university presidents
Thank you for quality articles such as Catie Ball and Andrew Sledd, for starting cleanup here with "{{diff|Ferdinand VI of Spain|284816884|No, I do not believe}}", for "good and thorough work pertaining to articles about your alma mater", for {{diff|User talk:Eric Corbett|518232640||precision}} and {{diff|User talk:Secret|637369381||missing}}, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | It says that this barnstar is awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes. I hope that includes disingenuous behaviour that derails our RfCs Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:40, 16 August 2015 (UTC) |