I'm Dave Coustan. I am an independent consultant, strategist, and podcast producer/editor. I'm a member of CREWE as well, and proud to be one of the charter signers of this joint statement of ethics for communications firms on Wikipedia. I do occasionally act as a paid consultant as relates to Wikipedia, and I respect and follow the COI guidelines. <-- I'm striking through this previous clause because I have essentially retired from consulting around disclosed, collaborative COI edit requests. I leave that pursuit deeply disappointed with the small minority of the Wikipedia community determined to throw up friction and roadblocks to that process essentially restarting anew an already robust and documented discussion each time it comes up. At a certain point that started to feel itself entirely counter to the spirit of the Wikipedia project.
Outside of work I'm currently studying the trumpet. I play a 1973 Bach Strad 18043, and also own a beautiful 1959 Martin Committee, a 1947 Conn 12B (Coprion Bell), and a 1968 Olds Ambassador. My biggest musical influences in jazz are Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Yusef Lateef, and Charlie Parker. I also run, and work out with a 20 lb rubber hammer. I work on my penmanship with fountain pens.
My friend Mary Gaulke is also an active user here and has picked up the mantle as lead point of contact at my former employer, Voce Communications. She's good people.
Brands/people for which I have a COI edit
- Crescent Communities
- Procore Technologies (I drafted and submitted via AFC with the disclosure template)
HowStuffWorks/Stuffo articles I've written that editors have used as sources in Wikipedia edit
- Wonder Woman's Dirty Secrets, for Stuffo and then HowStuffWorks
- Who Killed Batman?, for Stuffo and then HowStuffWorks
- How Shotguns Work, for HowStuffWorks
I have been active in edit
- Pusser's - Sources are hard to come by, but did a little bit of cleanup on this article which was confusing and more poorly sourced than it is now.
- List_of_people_who_have_lived_at_airports - I added human rights activist Iyad El-Baghdadi, who was forced to live at the Kuala Lumpur Airport for 3 weeks in limbo, after exile from the UAE, until he was accepted in to the country.