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--Ysangkok (talk) 15:00, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Template editor given

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4nn1l2 (talk) 17:53, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: thanks! firefly ( t · c ) 17:55, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Deprecated API requests in POTY script

Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw phab:T286602#7370953. Legoktm (talk) 17:13, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

I did, but forgot to reply! Thanks for the reminder :) firefly ( t · c ) 09:55, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Mireksplay

Time to delete?-- RicHard-59 (talk) 08:52, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

@RicHard-59 quite possibly, but I'm not an administrator so will have to wait for the DR to be closed by an admin. firefly ( t · c ) 06:10, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

POTY round 2

Hello. Thanks for your efforts for running POTY. Why has not the second round been advertised via watchlist notice, main page notice, and central banners? Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:29, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

@4nn1l2 the CentralNotice is on its way imminently - there was some holdup at the Meta end which Seddon is I believe sorting out. It was on the calendar but for some reason didn't make it to the actual schedule. I wasn't aware R2 got the same watchlist/main page treatment as R1 (in hindsight it makes sense that it would...) - I'll make an AN request now. firefly ( t · c ) 06:09, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Central Notice is not up yet. Anything that I can do? Maybe a gentle push on users of Meta? I have no idea, but please count on my help. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 04:33, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks so much for your work on POTY. I always look forward to the event. You have done a lot to get it up and running, so I am very grateful. Glennfcowan (talk) 05:16, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

@Glennfcowan Thank you, and likewise for the barnstar below - happy to help :) firefly ( t · c ) 16:18, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great work on POTY 2020! Glennfcowan (talk) 05:18, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Link to other languages on POTY 2020 results page

Why there is no "languages" link on Commons:Picture of the Year/2020/Results? Just like it is on Commons:Picture of the Year/2019/Results or other translatable POTY 2020 pages. --jdx ^Re: 22:11, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Hmm - odd. I’ll have a look, I imagine something hasn’t been set up properly on that page. firefly ( t · c ) 22:13, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for helping with POTY this year. I have always been a big fan of the contest. BRP ever 09:21, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

@BRPever: thanks! Happy to help :) firefly ( t · c ) 09:26, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

+1 thanks for all you do for POTY, I always look forward to it each year. Glennfcowan (talk) 04:22, 23 May 2023 (UTC)