Ryan lane

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Hello, Ryan lane, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! -- Cirt (talk) 01:09, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	I, odder, hereby award this Technical Barnstar to you, Ryan Lane, for your hard work on enabling protocol-relative URLs on Wikimedia Commons. This is something that many people, including myself, have been waiting for a long time for. Thank you for bringing this feature to the projects! odder (talk) 23:44, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

A bottle of scotch

	The scotch-drinker's barnstar
	For having impeccable taste in liquor and generally being an awesome guy. A bottle of scotch for you! ^demon[omg plz] 00:36, 1 September 2011 (UTC) 00:36, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Please update vote at Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action

Hi Ryan, I noticed you indicated an interest in a blackout action at Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action. However, your vote did not make it clear which type of action you supported. Could you please remove your oppose vote and add a support vote instead to one of the sections above? It's okay if you support any of them, just pick one and then say you support all the others too. Thank you! Dcoetzee 20:14, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. I meant I oppose not doing a blackout. I guess that can be confusing though. Thanks for the message.--Ryan lane (talk) 21:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative

Hi Ryan lane,

You are receiving this message either because you expressed an opinion about the proposed SOPA blackout before full blackout and soft blackout were adequately differentiated, or because you expressed general support without specifying a preference. Please ensure that your voice is heard by clarifying your position accordingly.

Thank you.

Message delivered as per request on ANI. -- The Helpful Bot 16:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Christ, polling and talk pages in MediaWiki suck. Fixed. --Ryan lane (talk) 00:43, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for informing me, though. Also, thank you for your work on this process as a whole.--Ryan lane (talk) 09:25, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Your work on fundraising

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Hi Ryan, I do not know you much, but for your continued work for durable fundraising and to defend the reputation of our project, I award you the Defender of the Wiki barnstar. Chealer (talk) 18:21, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Recursive export

Currently you are in a special user group called recursive export that allows the user to export pages with linked pages beyond the limit applied to normal users. Do you still need this user right?--GZWDer (talk) 00:27, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Nope! --Ryan lane (talk) 00:56, 1 February 2020 (UTC)