jps You could email me or Dr K and get our guaranteed perfect opinions However you must know that any hint of probing personal information regarding an editor is strictly prohibited so if the essence of a message would be X posted that Y has a COI because in real life we can skip the email because that is absolutely prohibited and if repeated will correctly lead to an indefinite block until there is a plausible undertaking to never use that path I fully support the WP OUTING policy although I agree that it leads to very unfortunate problems when a COI arises I m speculating about the COI I saw nothing of the discussion leading to this Wikipedia has problems that is known but nibbling out OUTING will not benefit the community