User talk:Karlwooldridge88

Forest City, Iowa
Please stop making the changes you are attempting to make to this article as you did here. Winnebago hasn't moved out of Forest City, as evidenced by their own website. Per the comments embedded in the article, you've not provided any evidence that Dean Borg or Terry Branstad are from Forest City. Please stop making these changes without providing citations to reliable, secondary sources that support your claims. If you have questions, let me know. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 14:07, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the email. Generally speaking, such communications happen on project so other people can follow along with the discussion, if needed. To your points; fair enough on Branstad and Borg. On Winnebago, forgive me if I am leery of this, as I noted their website indicates they are in Forest City. Is there a secondary source that supports what you are saying? I've added Branstad and Borg. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I note the following sources indicating the headquarters are in Forest City . --Hammersoft (talk) 15:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

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Happy editing! --Hammersoft (talk) 15:07, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

I think perhaps it might seem like we got off on the wrong foot, so adding the welcome message above. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:07, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

No problem. New, and trying to make sure our Forest City, Iowa page is up to date. I serve on the City Council, and will be President of the Chamber of Commerce in 2021. Like I said, just trying to learn the ropes here. I will look into the links you sent so I can be up to date on things. I also put a call in to Winnebago's Corporate Spokesman, who is a friend of mine. I know the CEO and most of the executives are in Eden Prairie, but maybe they still consider Forest City as their Headquarters. In the old days, headquarters was where John K.'s office was. Once I speak with Chad, I'll contact you again if I think we should consider a change. Hope I did this right. Thank you for reaching out! Karlwooldridge88 (talk) 15:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries; we were all new at some point. On the subject of Forest City, note that you have a direct conflict of interest with regards to the article. So far, nothing you've done is wrong in that regard. But, it's very difficult for a person with a direct conflict of interest to write an encyclopedia entry for the subject. Possible, but difficult. Please understand I'm not trying to dissuade you. You should read our conflict of interest guideline for some direction on how to proceed. I can also answer any questions you may have. You can leave a message on my talk page to ask such questions or, alternatively, do so here and let me know you have by way of using . In the editing window you'll see "nowiki" tags around that. That's so that it renders the code to use for the ping, but you don't use the nowiki tags when you're trying to ping me. When you do this, it let's me know that my attention is desired. One way in which you could easily help is to get one or more photographs of Forest City and get them on the article. Perhaps a view of the county courthose, when the face is in sunlight ? --Hammersoft (talk) 16:09, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * To clarify about images; it's important that these are images you personally took, so there is no worries about uploading them under a license appropriate to Wikipedia. I can help with this too if you like. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:19, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I was poking around on Google Maps and realized that a couple of summers ago, I passed within ~50 miles of your town on my way to Orange City, where I had some business. That was when all that rain was happening. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:13, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

I can understand about the Conflict of Interest issue. I will look into those guidelines as well. When it comes to this, however, having someone with intimate knowledge of the area in question can be helpful too. I would assume that if I post something, that someone else is going to eyeball it as well. I can take any number of pictures that are needed, as I travel through town a lot for my job. Are there certain views of a town that you would recommend? School? Waldorf University? Winnebago Plant? Karlwooldridge88 (talk) 16:23, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The ping worked perfectly :) On images; how about all the above? Iowa is a beautiful state, but often overlooked because it is often flat. Images that we use on Wikipedia are generally uploaded to Commons, and certainly these would be as well. Commons has little in the way of coverage of smaller towns in Iowa. We don't necessarily use all images on an article here that are of the subject on Commons. What we do is upload the images to Commons, and then provide a link to the Commons category where the images are hosted. To see this, have a look at Forest_City,_Iowa. See on the right hand side there's a link there to media related to Forest City? That's how we do it here. There's only two maps and two images in it (one of which I now see is the courthouse I mentioned before). More images are needed there. Also, there are other articles where your easy access to take images would be very welcome indeed. Forest City Community School District, Waldorf University, Forest City Municipal Airport, and Winnebago Industries are all lacking images (well, the latter has an image but it is of an RV, not company buildings). There's plenty more of such potential subjects that you have easy access to with a camera/phone. Buffalo Center, Iowa, Leland, Iowa, Rake, Iowa, Scarville, Iowa, and Thompson, Iowa are all lacking images as well. I think I could keep you busy for hours with requests :) Seriously, Wikipedia is always incomplete and I'm excited at the prospect of having a person in this area who can contribute so much! --Hammersoft (talk) 16:36, 25 September 2020 (UTC)