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Coat of arms (heraldy crown)[edit]

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]

Reason[edit]

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]

Contents of a deleted article[edit]

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]

Why did you delete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia/Ruda_Real?[edit]

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," given on that page along with the birthdate, death date and places of birth and death were exact matches for a person 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]

Deletion review for Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Ruda Real[edit]

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Ruda Real. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Pppery. I've replied. And as I've always noted at the top of this talk page -- I have no issue with any administrator reversing my decisions. Cheers. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 17:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Page restored and new Mfd created. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 14:45, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding RD1[edit]

Hi CactusWriter, just a friendly reminder to remove {{copyvio-revdel}} from a page once you clean the history, since the template populates Category:Requested RD1 redactions. Thanks for helping to reduce the backlog. ^Complex/_Rational 00:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! Thanks for the reminder. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 01:55, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Signature[edit]

Just FYI, your new signature links to User:cactuswriter, which doesn't exist as a page. Elli (talk | contribs) 21:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Been futzing around with my sig -- thanks for the heads-up. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 01:14, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AFDs[edit]

Hello, CactusWriter,

Thank you for your help closing AFD deletion discussions today. We always need more admins rotating in to spend some time assessing these discussions. However, please come familiar with Wikipedia:XFDcloser and use it to close discussions. It's what all other closers and relisters use and it's a really simple-to-use editing tool. I know you are not using it now because you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NX Files characters and the result was 22 broken redirect pages along with their talk pages. I needed to delete them all individually.

If you close an AFD with XFDcloser, then this awesome tool will not only delete the article, its talk page and all redirects to the deleted article (and their talk pages) but it will also remove any red links that are left over from the deletion of the article. It's really standard practice and it will make the process so much easier for you than handling each AFD discussion closure yourself, manually. Just a suggestion that might save you some time and worry. Thanks again for your help. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Liz. As can be seen on my contributions, I had already used XFDcloser on all my other AFD closes today. And you're right, it certainly does simplify the process -- not like the old days of tedious manual closes. Sorry about any broken redirects. Appreciate your help. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 22:02, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]