User talk:Cactusisme

June 2025 AfC backlog drive award

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The Working Man's Barnstar
This is awarded to Cactusisme for accumulating more than 75 points during the June 2025 AfC backlog drive. Your dedication and sustained efforts in reducing the backlog and contributions to Wikipedia's content review process are sincerely appreciated. Thank you for your participation! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:26, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bunnypranav Thanks man Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:32, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome :) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:36, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

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Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

  • July 9–15 - Call for candidates
  • July 18–22 - Discussion phase
  • July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

  • The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
  • Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
  • The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
  • The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
  • Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Biographies request for comment

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(trialing replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (talk|botop) 16:31, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vistula-Oder Waterway has been accepted

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Vistula-Oder Waterway, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 22% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Utopes (talk / cont) 03:27, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Utopes Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:04, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: John Shedletsky

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Hello Cactusisme. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of John Shedletsky, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Editor states that a mention on the Roblox page and in a techcrunch article makes this suitable for a redirect. If anyone disagrees, they can bring this to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. Thank you. PhantomSteve/talk¦contribs\ 08:28, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]