User:Dirtlawyer1

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.

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":

Andrew Sledd, Latin and Greek scholar, essayist, theology professor, university president; Robert Q. Marston, medical doctor, research scientist, director of the National Institutes of Health, university president; Albert A. Murphree, university president, mathematics professor; John J. Tigert, U.S. Commissioner of Education, university president, College Football Hall of Fame member; Theresa Andrews, competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist; Catie Ball, competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder; Robert Cade, medical doctor, university professor, research scientist, inventor of Gatorade; Tracy Caulkins, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder; Nicole Haislett, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, eight-time collegiate champion; Mike Heath, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, four-time collegiate champion; David Larson, competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder; Tim McKee, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic silver medalist; Mark Stockwell, competition swimmer, three-time Olympic medalist, sports administrator; Dara Torres, competition swimmer, twelve-time Olympic medalist, oldest swimmer to win an Olympic medal; and 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 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
  swimmers and university presidents

Thank you for quality articles such as Catie Ball and Andrew Sledd, for starting cleanup here with "", for "good and thorough work pertaining to articles about your alma mater", for and, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 14 December 2014 (UTC)