User:RL0919

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.

Tools, lists, and admin stuff
Useful tools/links:
 * Updated location for Checklinks, Altviewer, etc: User:Dispenser
 * Citation templates
 * Template messages

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
 * 3) Template:Nathaniel Branden - navigation box
 * 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
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:43, 16 January 2017 (UTC)