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Greetings and...

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Greetings Andrew Gray,

On the off-chance that you’re at a loose end and were looking for something constructive to do with your spare time over the next few minutes, and in the hopes that you’re feeling especially disposed to apply common sense to Wikipedia, I was wondering if you could do me, and Wikipedia, a favour.

Some years back, and on your own initiative, you kindly awarded me Wikipedia:Autopatrolled rights. Shortly afterwards, I asked you to do the same for another couple of users. Given that on those occasions both your initiative and mine were clearly to Wikipedia’s advantage, I thought I might appeal to you in another, slightly less clear-cut, case.

Until six months ago I was very active over at es:wiki where, in the course of my editing I naturally “met” several excellent editors. The other day, one of these, Maragm, an expert on Spanish medieval history, among other topics of encyclopaedic interest, asked me a couple of questions regarding editing here at en:wiki and I thought that it would be to everyone’s advantage if said editor were to given autopatrolled rights. It is, admittedly, a bit of a long shot, given that it normally requires "prior creation of 50 valid articles, not including redirects or disambiguation pages" and Maragm has “only” created a dozen articles here, so far (and 75 over at es:wiki). However, as I pointed out in my reply, granting of said right is discretionary, and I have no doubt whatsoever that it would be to Wikipedia’s advantage to be flexible in this particular case.

I quite understand if you reckon it's too much of a long shot, but there's no harm in trying :) Regards, --Technopat (talk) 21:51, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

TechnopatSorry for the delay, I've been busy the past few days - autopatrolled is now set. I think a good record on eswp speaks for itself! Thanks for poking me about it; hopefully should save a bit of time for everyone in the long run. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:27, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Thank you Andrew and Technopat, I promise to behave! Best regards, --Maragm (talk) 06:48, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

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