Talk:Jennifer Pahlka

Question on how to handle possible COIN for Tim O'Reilly, Jennifer Pahlka, Todd Park, and Maker Faire

 * Articles of concern: Tim O'Reilly, Jennifer Pahlka, Todd Park, and Maker Faire
 * User of COIN concern: Special:Contributions/Tadghin

Wanting to assume good faith and not sure how to best proceed, on Talk:Tim_O'Reilly, User Tadghin Special:Contributions/Tadghin supposedly self-identifies himself as the subject of the article about Tim O'Reilly on that Talk page. I am not sure what steps were done by Wikipedia to verify this identity or not, however the edit history shows that this user who supposedly self-identified themselves also has edited the subject page of which the individual is the topic of with the self-written comment “Corrected companies I am on the board of” (note the "I am on the board of" in the comment) and edited the pages of his wife Jennifer Pahlka, to include creating the article and commenting “Added Jen’s role as Unted States Deputy CTO” with the White House, see Special:Contributions/Tadghin. How should this apparent possible conflict of interest be investigated since it seems to span years? The same user also has edited the page for White House CTO Todd Park which if this individual is the person that Special:Contributions/Tadghin self-identifies himself as, has a close professional relationship with per and edited Maker Faire that the subject's company  spun-off the organization that sponsors these events.

Related to this, if you look at the history for Jennifer Pahlka, not only will you see edits by this supposed self-identified user, you will also find edits by a user using the same first and last name, which incidentally is also this person's exact same Twitter handle, as a government agency CTO that worked with the subject of the article: see Revision History. Again, wanting to assume good faith, it may be an editor is just using the same name however it is the same exact name and Twitter handle? Not sure how to handle this second editor's possible COI as well? WatchDogUS (talk) 21:50, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


 * As you can see, I've removed the COI template from the article and placed one here on the Talk page. Tadghin hasn't edited here since July 2013 and the article has benefited from clean-up since. In my opinion things are sourced adequately to suggest Pahlka passed WP:GNG and there are no major NPOV issues. Unless Tadghin or a SOCK starts editing here again, I don't think it's a major issue here any longer. Sionk (talk) 01:21, 9 March 2016 (UTC)