Action on Remaining Conflicts of Interest[edit]

Hi Earl Andrew,

It is November 13, 2023. More than 30 days have passed and I have not heard from you with any objection. As per my outreach to you on Oct 11 2023, I have followed the Wikipedia policy outlined in WP:COI and flagged the conflict of interest you identified on your user page for the consideration of other Wikipedians on the articles for Peter Julian and Bruce Hyer.

Please keep the following in mind:


Information icon Hello, Earl Andrew. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Peter Julian, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.


Information icon Hello, Earl Andrew. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Bruce Hyer, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Balancingakt (talk) 06:37, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Continued Violation of WP:COI on Ekos Research Associates[edit]

Earl Andrew,

You continue to violate previous warnings that your self-acknowledged position as an employee of Ekos Research Associates constitutes a conflict of interest. As per WP:COI please stop directly editing the article and instead propose changes on the talk page.

Alternately we can escalate the issue to the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard for community review and action.

Let me know your preference.

Your second formal COI warning regarding Ekos Research Associates is below.


Information icon Hello, Earl Andrew. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Ekos Research Associates, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Balancingakt (talk) 07:02, 14 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(talk page stalker) Balancingakt, this is starting to resemble WP:HOUNDING. If you want to escalate the issue to COIN or to ANI, that is your perogative, but seeing as you are focusing primarily on this user's actions (despite them politely saying they do not wish to discuss this with you further) may lead to admonishment on your end as well. Bkissin (talk) 15:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Bkissin
Could you please explain how this is an example of hounding? My outreach and action is limited to implementing Wikipedia's policy for a very narrow number of clear conflict of interests, which Earl Andrew self-identified. The issue keeps returning because Earl persists in disruptively violating WP:COI (eg see his recent false reporting of "vandalism" to revert my edits and restore his unsourced, promotional content on his employer's Wikipedia page).
Are you asserting that Earl's demand that I drop the issue of his conflict of interest constitutes a formal, authoritative ban per WP:IBAN? Earl is free to ignore my outreach to constructively resolve his conflicts of interest. A user's talk page is as much a space for messages to them as it is a record of warnings, ignored outreach, and their behavior for other Wikipedians' reference. It is not private property. Do other Wikipedians not deserve a record of what happened, particularly if this goes to COIN?
I hope you are not suggesting that as long as a user is persistent in their violations of Wikipedia policy and they request an end to any action on that policy, then WP:HOUNDING should shield them from anyone documenting things or enforcing policy.
Your continued advocacy in light of Earl's persistent negative behavior is concerning. I note here that this is the second time you have quickly arrived to insert yourself in talk page discussion on his behalf. I maintain good faith but am at a loss to understand how you originally became so quickly aware of our talk page discussion unless he requested you to join or you were already allied in some other way. You acknowledged that you have history with Earl. If Earl's behavior is escalated to COIN for review, I hope you will allow truly neutral, uninvolved Wikipedians to decide things.
Thank you for clarifying. Balancingakt (talk) 22:07, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
On 13 November 2023 I edited the Ekos Research Associates page to clean out content that violates WP:Verifiability as well as WP:Promotional, WP:Logos, and WP:COI.
Noting here for the record that Earl Andrew has reverted my edit three times in the 24 hours from 14:24, 13 November 2023 to 13:32, 14 November 2023.
Earl's direct edits are in violation of WP:COI, as they have self-identified as an employee of Ekos Research Associates and has been warned multiple times here and on their talk page. Earl continued to revert, claiming my removal was vandalism, without providing any evidence or explanation. Earl has an increasingly lengthy record of disruptive and uncivil behaviour on that page.
Given the persistent display of bad faith, a level 2 warning for disruptive editing has been noted below.
Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Balancingakt (talk) 23:08, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Balancingakt (talk) 00:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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PWHL[edit]

Hello. Would you please join the discussion I've opened at the talkpage of WP:HOCKEY, concerning diacritics & the PWHL? GoodDay (talk) 14:56, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Already weighed in. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:59, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Winnipeg West[edit]

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I wanted to let you know that I have tagged a page that you created (Winnipeg West) for deletion because it is unnecessary per one of the criteria at WP:G14.

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Cielquiparle (talk) 18:11, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks re: SK Scotties[edit]

Thanks for pointing to the obvious source and helping to fill in the details on the SK Scotties champions. I should say, the work you did on the Ottawa Curling Club (and curling broadly) helped inspire me to improve some of the coverage of SK curling. Cheers! Other justin (talk) 23:57, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Other justin: No problem, and thank you for your recent additions! Feel free to join our Wikiproject (WP:CURLING) if you plan on working on more curling articles. :-) -- Earl Andrew - talk 00:03, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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ITN recognition for Toddy Kehoe[edit]

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