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