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Happy First Edit Day! Hi CactusWriter! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 (talk) 00:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Unblock request from Badehmasare --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:37, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Unblock denied due to blatant sockpuppetry. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 19:58, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Recently, I noticed that the page for the film Abominable was apparently protected at the "Extended confirmed protected" level, apparently due to some edit war that occurred almost six months before the film was even released. Seeing as it has not been previously set to a semi-protection level along with the fact that nearly four years have passed by since then with not much activity (at least to the best of my knowledge, anyway), are you able to either reduce or remove the current protection level? Thanks! IceWalrus236 (talk) 06:57, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, IceWalrus. I expect enough time has passed for an article that appears uncontroversial. I've removed the edit protection. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 23:28, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

I was working on a page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Matthew_Mason_(physiologist) about a professor who is fairly prominent at my university but it got deleted because sometime thought I was writing about myself and I did not use third party references. Please can I request it to be undeleted so I can work on it further by providing more reliable sources? I'm new to editing Wikipedia so I wasn't aware of the source requirement, and I am certainly not writing about myself, thanks! Moosd (talk) 18:54, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Three years!

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The redirect Plaisir d'Amour(True Blood) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 7 § Plaisir d'Amour(True Blood) until a consensus is reached. Gonnym (talk) 14:31, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — CactusWriter ^(talk) 15:33, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've decided to recreate the article The Body Electric (Rush song) as a redirect to their 1984 album Grace Under Pressure (Rush album), despite the previous creation by a banned user. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 04:02, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Article now uses original film poster. DVD image deleted. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 23:17, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi CactusWriter. I've already mentioned issues with the article/editor to Drmies, but the editor creating Coat of arms (heraldy crown) has just re-created it again following your most recent deletion. That's the third time it'd been deleted today, I think, and it's also been moved to draft space. Anything you can do? I can tag for speedy deletion, again, but I think they'll just re-create it. They're not responding on their talk page. Cheers, Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 23:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bastun, I've deleted the article (again) and given the user a short block. Perhaps this will prod them to begin talking rather than continue with disruptive edits. Good luck. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 23:50, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Cheers, Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 23:51, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When the conversation about an article is going on, the reason to delete that article in a hurry??--Gowtham Sampath (talk) 17:42, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My question has not yet been answered. Why??? ---Gowtham Sampath (talk) 00:44, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Gowtham Sampath. I will assume your question concerns the article Periyababusamudram. It was speedy deleted per WP:G12 as an unambiguous copyright infringement of a copyrighted page. This is a legal issue for Wikipedia. For legal reasons, text or images that are currently copyrighted elsewhere must be removed immediately. I see that you have recreated the article without the copyrighted text. Please remember that it is always best practice to create text from scratch rather than copy-pasting from outside sources. If you have further questions, please ask. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 01:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Last month, you deleted Draft:Guyana Campaign per G3. The Guyana Campaign under Bolívar was very real, which makes me wonder what exactly the hoax article stated. Any clarity here would be much appreciated. - Mebigrouxboy (talk) 16:42, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Mebigrouxboy. That draft was deleted multiple times (both in draft space and main space) when editors found that "no evidence that this existed, let alone that the things written here are true or verifiable." Please note that the article you link to in Spanish Wikipedia was a military campaign in 1816-1817. The hoax article was an alleged campaign in 1714. Let me know if you need further clarification. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 22:08, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like it had something to do with Dutch history, given the pages that link to it. Is that accurate? - Mebigrouxboy (talk) 22:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. It described a confrontation between Portuguese, Dutch and French armies. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 22:49, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help! - Mebigrouxboy (talk) 03:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your explanation at the page didn’t make any sense. If you don’t think this constitutes a hoax please let MfD decide, don’t perform an illegitimate speedy deletion. Dronebogus (talk) 08:49, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dronebogus, it probably would have been helpful if I had linked to the AN page. My larger explanation was given at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard where a request was made to delete the unused page. The page had been removed from WP:LOHOW for more than a year-and-a-half (since October 2022) without any controversy and remained unlinked to anywhere on WP other than talk pages. It was deleted again -- as it originally had been per AFD consensus. The current re-deletion is not illegitimate. Can you provide a further reason for keeping this unused page? — CactusWriter ^(talk) 20:37, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was kind of up in the air whether Ruda Real was a real person. There’s a good possibility that if real (pun not intended) his music career was a hoax. Regardless as long as there was a legitimate reason to delete it I don’t care. Dronebogus (talk) 02:32, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The real name for "Ruda Real," Kairuba Brown, given on that page along with the birthdate, death date and places of birth and death were exact matches for the Kairuba O. Brown listed in public government records including the United States Social Security Administration. The music career part may or may not have been real but the actual person was real with a real family. The article should either have been speedy deleted originally as non-notable or vandalism. In either case, it remained a violation of our WP:BIO policy. Thanks for your input. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 15:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]