User talk:JoshuaJT

Potential conflict of interest
Hello, JoshuaJT. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Robert Lawrence Kuhn, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 05:25, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

December 2023
Hello JoshuaJT. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:JoshuaJT. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Amigao (talk) 23:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Amigao,
 * It would have certainly been nice to get paid! LOL. But as stated previously, I just wanted to show my support for this TV show. I never thought that in doing so it would result in so much confusion.
 * All the best, JoshuaJT (talk) 23:45, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

January 2024
Hello, I'm Amigao. I noticed that you recently removed content from Robert Lawrence Kuhn without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Amigao (talk) 02:41, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

February 2024
You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. Amigao (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain pages (Robert Lawrence Kuhn) for undeclared COI editing, edit warring. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Drmies (talk) 21:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Request for Unblock

 * Wow. Will defer that to someone with a faster reading speed and longer life expectancy. (elbows ) &#45;- Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Quite often passionate fans are often mistaken for COI related editors, as they make many of the same mistakes. I'm still not seeing the reason that you need access to the article; in this situation I usually like to see some edit requests accepted from the article talk page first.  However, I see enough here that I would be willing to remove the block if  does not object. 331dot (talk) 19:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * User:Deepfriedokra, I think is older than me--they certainly sound more mature! Fun fact--we appear together in the same book. Well, here's the thing: the editor has not yet shown me that they can edit neutrally, with regard to our requirement for reliable secondary sources, or in agreement with the MOS and other guidelines, and that's probably because they never showed interest in them or in Wikipedia as a whole. So I would certainly want to see that they place an edit request, formatted properly and with sourcing, before I'd allow them to edit the article directly. The talk page and the edit request function thus function as a training ground. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 19:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds like we're in agreement. 331dot (talk) 20:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * What have you to say to the above? Daniel Case (talk) 07:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd like to say thank you for the second chance. I will humbly take the opportunity to place an edit request which demonstrates a neutral edit with reliable secondary sources that is in alignment with MOS guidelines. Thank you all for taking the time here to discuss. JoshuaJT (talk) 01:50, 9 March 2024 (UTC)