Engraving in black ink on yellowed paper depicting a young male sailor on a wooden ship with a cigarette in his mouth
I scanned this for Wikimedia from a John Neal children's story

My name is Dugan Murphy (he/him) and I am really into John Neal (writer). I overhauled that article on two occasions 14 years apart and then saw it through to featured article status. I also created new articles and lists for Neal's bibliography, his articles in periodicals, his magazine The Yankee, his friend Tobias Watkins, the Delphian Club he co-founded with Watkins, and his novels Seventy-Six, Rachel Dyer, Logan, and Brother Jonathan. The articles about Watkins and their club are good. The rest are featured articles and featured lists.

I like to create new articles and help improve older ones, like Hoffman's Course of Legal Study or the African Civilization Society. I even wrote an article for my favorite DIY boy band, Oshima Brothers, and saw it through to good article status. Occasionally I'll pull an image from an old, public domain book or take a photo of a historic building and upload it to Wikimedia Commons so I can add it to improve a Wikipedia article. Because of my experience nominating articles, I sometimes participate in peer reviews and review nominations for good and featured status.

I also lead historical walking tours of Portland, Maine, as Portland by the Foot.

I always have a hard time finding this template when I need it, so I keep it linked here: Template:DYK checklist.