User talk:Jacob Westermeyer

Welcome!

Hello, Jacob Westermeyer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Hempstead High School (Dubuque, Iowa) have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jacob Westermeyer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Hempstead High School (Dubuque, Iowa) ‎, 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;
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• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

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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. SkyWarrior 02:29, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Jacob Westermeyer, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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