User talk:Joykodiri

Conflict of interest policy
Hello, Joykodiri. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 22:27, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

May 2020
Hello Joykodiri. The nature of your edits 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very 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 extremely 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:Joykodiri. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 21:44, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Praxidicae, I can assure you that you are quite mistaken – I am not being compensated in anyway for my edits whether directly or indirectly. If anything at all, I'm really still learning the ropes around Wikipedia, to be honest. And only stuck to editing or contributing to subjects and projects I have a fair bit of social interest in because I simply follow them online. Nothing else. I don't have any direct relationship, contact or personal goals. I would like to contribute to more varied articles, as soon as I get better at this. Any help or insight from you would be helpful. Thank you. Joykodiri (talk) 00:59, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you please explain your connection to Alex Okoroji, ? Praxidicae (talk) 16:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi @Praxidicae No special connection, except I only met Alex Okoroji twice, once in 2014 at a political townhall meeting where she spoke and the second time on a local flight from Lagos, she and some other celebrities were on the plane, she was seated behind me. I took some selfies with her Grace Ama, Stella Damasus and three other male actors. She was very polite and pleasant and then I started following her radio show and bought two of her books. Joykodiri (talk) 16:57, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you explain how you took this photo, which is clearly a selfie on an airplane? Praxidicae (talk) 16:58, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

@Praxidicae I already addressed this question before. I was seated on the window seat directly in front of her and took it. Not a great shot because of the angle. I even joked about us having the same last name even though we are not related or even from the same state. As I am from Abia and she is from Imo state. My brother is also named Alex Okoroji and he used to receive emails in error that were meant for her (because of the similarity in their email address). I said she was the famous one and asked to take a picture so I can show my brothers Alex and Phillip. Is there an issue here. This lady has earned her dues and deserves a Wikipedia page just like others who have one. Why is this suddenly an issue? The page has been existent since 2016. My connection or lack of connection to her does not discredit her notability. I only noticed it was deleted citing G11 because I wanted to create another article and noticed it had been yanked off. Joykodiri (talk) 17:16, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Using Wikipedia For Promotional Purposes
Hello, I'm Celestina007. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Alex Okoroji have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Celestina007 (talk) 00:55, 23 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you Celestina007 for sharing this with me. Truth is I'm still learning the ropes here. I thought I did a good job at keeping my edits neutral. I will read through the guidelines and try my best to follow the rules as I hope to contribute to more varied articles. Joykodiri (talk) 09:06, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:13, 31 August 2020 (UTC)