User talk:Kogodbiz

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Hello, Kogodbiz, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Kogod School of Business, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia:
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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! — Jeff G. ツ 13:28, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

August 2022
Hello, I'm Jeff G.. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Kogod School of Business 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. — Jeff G. ツ 13:30, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must: Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:37, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

Yes, the article about the school was deleted as having no verifiable references to independent reliable sources. 331dot (talk) 07:09, 13 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I think you are misunderstanding - the statement above suggests that I am advertising or promoting through my edits - I am stating that I am writing independently (in other words, making edits to this page personally, without an advertising agenda), as you will notice that the corrections I made pertained to updating our current dean, and I believe a few grammatical errors. I am not suggesting that I am not affiliated with the school. Is there nothing that can be done to have our page reinstated? Kogodbiz (talk) 11:15, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
 * There are two separate (but related) issues here- your username and conduct, and the article about your school. Regarding the latter, it is not your school's "page", but an article about your school. The school has no more rights to it than any other editor. You can seek its restoration at Requests for Undeletion once unblocked. Please do not ask someone else at your school to do this for you, as they would risk being blocked themselves as a sockpuppet of you. Any article about your school would primarily summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about it, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable organization- it would not necessarily say what the school wants it to say and cannot merely document the existence of the school.
 * Regarding the block itself, I don't see where you disclosed your relationship with the school as required by the Terms of Use, see WP:PAID. This is why you received the form message above, you were not promoting or advertising per se. But you must read that policy and also WP:COI and make a new unblock request telling us how your future edits will comply with those policies, and also describe any edits you might make as a general contributor. 331dot (talk) 11:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)