User talk:Hhokeefe

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May 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Welland has been reverted. Your edit here to Welland was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.basketball.ca/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 18:59, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello Hhokeefe. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:55, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

My daughter has just recently been named the Executive Director of Canada Basketball and as a proud father I wanted to add her name to the list of famous people who come from our town. I set up a link to the Canada Basketball website. There really is no conflict of interest here but I do understand the danger. I have no desire to to press the matter. Que sera sera. Henry O'Keefe