User talk:JustJoking47

February 2023
 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 a 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: Bbb23 (talk) 16:18, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 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.


 * Greetings, I will go through the steps outlined above. My defense is ignorance. There was no malice or deceit intended. Thank you. JustJoking47 (talk) 15:56, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Appealing block
I will add outside of the context of your block, that you should beware in using other articles about universities as examples or models- those articles could be problematic and you wouldn't be aware of this as a new user. As this is a volunteer project, it is possible for inappropriate articles to exist in many ways, sometimes for years. We can only address what we know about. If you want to use other articles as a model, use those classified as good articles, which have been vetted by the community. Standards for articles about universities have changed over time- up until a few years ago, existence was sufficient, but that is no longer the case. It takes time, though, to work through the thousands of articles and address them when volunteers do the work. 331dot (talk) 23:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)