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Alienware

Request to update infobox and “Founding” subsection.

I am a Dell Technologies employee, and I’m reaching out with an edit request for the Alienware article. I fully understand and respect Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines, so I will not edit the page directly. Instead, I am submitting this request here for consideration by the Wikipedia community of editors.

1. Please change the date in the “Founded” Infobox field from “October 24” to “October 15” and remove “; 29 years ago”.

• Before:

“Founded, October 24, 1996; 29 years ago (as Saikai of Miami, Inc.)”.

• After:

“Founded, October 15, 1996 (as Saikai of Miami, Inc.)”. Justification: This Sunbiz Division of Corporations site provides the filing date for Alienware Corporation. This source is currently the second footnote in the "Founded" infobox field.

2. Please update the https://dell.com/en-us/gaming/alienware/ website link in the Infobox to the https://www.alienware.com URL.

3. Please expand on the third sentence in the “Founding” subsection of the article.

• Before:

“According to employees, the name "Alienware" was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, which also inspired the science-fiction themed names of product lines such as Area-51, Hangar 18, and Aurora.”

• After:

“According to employees, the name "Alienware" was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, which also inspired the science-fiction themed names of product lines such as Area-51, Hangar 18, Aurora, MJ-12, Orion, Roswell, X51, Hivemind, and Bot.” TL with Dell Technologies (talk) 14:30, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello @DiscoursesonLivvy: Thank you again for your help earlier this year with my Dell article edit request. I appreciate it. I’m following up on my edit request above, which involves historical updates to the Alienware article. If you’re interested, then I’d value your input. Thank you for your time and consideration. TL with Dell Technologies (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello @DiscoursesonLivvy: I was wondering if you could take a look at this edit request when you have a moment. Thank you and let me know if you have any questions. TL with Dell Technologies (talk) 20:55, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

The Access Group

Update infobox, lead, and financial history

I am editing on behalf of The Access Group as a representative of Babel. I will abide by Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and submit changes via the Talk page rather than editing the article directly.

I am writing to propose updates to this article to correct outdated financial figures and add missing history.

I request that the current Infobox, Lead section (the text before the Table of Contents), and History section be removed and replaced with the Proposed Text below.

Reason for change: The current article displays outdated 2022 financial data (£618m revenue) and lacks significant coverage of the company's 2022 valuation. The proposed text updates the figures to 2025 (sourced to the Annual Report) and adds the £9.2bn valuation sourced to independent secondary sources (Sky News, The Times), which addresses the article's current "unclear notability" tag.

Proposed text

The Access Group

Industry	Business Software
Founded	1991
Area served	Europe, APAC, USA
Products	Access Evo, Accounting, CRM, HR and Payroll, Operations, Learning
Revenue	£1.16bn
Number of employees	9,732
Website	theaccessgroup.com

The Access Group is a UK-headquartered provider of business Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, primarily serving small and mid-sized organisations across commercial and non-profit sectors. The company, founded in 1991, has its HQ in Loughborough, England. It operates internationally, serving customers across Europe, the USA, and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

As of 2025, The Access Group reported an annual revenue of £1.16 billion, employed 9,732 people and served 160,000 commercial, public sector and not-for-profit customers.

Corporate History and Finance

The Access Group began a major expansion strategy following a management buy-out in 2011, characterised by a "buy-and-build" strategy involving numerous acquisitions. By September 2021, the company had reported 16 consecutive years of profitable growth.

In May and June 2022, The Access Group secured substantial investment from its principal shareholders, Hg and TA Associates, alongside a stake sale to the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC). This transaction valued the company at £9.2 billion. Analysts noted that at this valuation, the company would have been ranked approximately 55th in the FTSE 100 had it been a public constituent. Ashlockett (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Ashlockett (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

A response has not yet been received for this question.

Reply 20-MAY-2026

  Request closed for inactivity  

• The above edit request has not received any responses over the past 3 weeks (22 days in total).
• Discussion is often a key component to implementing edits, and requests may be adversely affected when they fail to garner input from either reviewing or requesting editors. In light of this — and as a safeguard — this request has been declined as needing discussion.
• The COI editor is urged to revive stalled communications by making contact with local editors on those editor's own talk pages, and then by moving those discussions back to this talk page.
• The COI editor may also wish to broadcast requests for edits at the talk pages of the WikiProjects which govern this article. Those projects are usually listed at the top of an article's talk page.

Regards,  Spintendo  08:41, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I am reopening this edit request as I am still seeking an independent review of my proposed changes. As suggested by the closing editor, I am reaching out to relevant WikiProjects to request assistance from the community.

~~~~ Ashlockett (talk) 14:45, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ashlockett: I am responding to the message you left on my talk page. Two comments:

a) The request is unclear, in that you speak of removing the history section (there is none). Do you mean replacing 100% of the content now on the page with the proposed lede, infobox, and history/finance section?

b) These proposed sources certainly look more reliable that what's currently on the page, so that's for the good.

The notability tag on the page will need to be reviewed against the relevant criteria. See WP:ORGCRITE for some detailed discussion of how the sources are assessed. In particular, a reviewer will need to spend the time to do the equivalent of the table shown there, after reading the sources (The Times is paywalled, which is unfortunate as it is an important source). Can you find any coverage in significant international media (outside the UK)? But that's a separate matter from simply updating the page. Fiske (talk) 20:06, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback @Fiske. To make it more clear, I am looking to remove:

The Access Group is a business software company headquartered in Loughborough, England. It was founded in 1991, and currently has more than 9,500 employees. It provides business management software to over 150,000 organisations across the UK, Ireland, US and Asia Pacific. Turnover was over £1.15 billion in the year to June 2025 - a year in which it completed 8 acquisitions.

To be replaced with

=== Proposed Draft ===

{{Infobox company

| name = The Access Group

| industry = Business Software

| founded = 1991

| headquarters = Loughborough, UK

| area_served = Europe, APAC, USA

| products = Access Evo, Accounting, CRM, HR and Payroll, Operations, Learning

| revenue = £1.16bn

| valuation = £9.2 billion

}}

The Access Group is a UK-headquartered provider of business Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, primarily serving small and mid-sized organisations across commercial and non-profit sectors. The company, founded in 1991, has its HQ in Loughborough, England. It operates internationally, serving customers across Europe, the USA, and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

As of 2025, The Access Group reported an annual revenue of £1.16 billion, employed 9,732 people and served 160,000 commercial, public sector and not-for-profit customers.

=== Corporate History and Finance ===

The Access Group began a major expansion strategy following a management buy-out in 2011, characterised by a "buy-and-build" strategy involving numerous acquisitions. By September 2021, the company had reported 16 consecutive years of profitable growth.

In May and June 2022, The Access Group secured substantial investment from its principal shareholders, Hg and TA Associates, alongside a stake sale to the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC). This transaction valued the company at £9.2 billion.

| num_employees = 9,732 Analysts noted that at this valuation, the company would have been ranked approximately 55th in the FTSE 100 had it been a public constituent.

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The rest of the article can remain the same, although the intention is to provide further edits to improve the accuracy and ensure it is current. As a UK company, the main news articles come from the UK: Sky and The Times. I understand these will need to be assessed against WP:ORGCRITE.

Does this make the proposed edit more clear? Thank you for your help and guidance. Ash

Ashlockett (talk) 14:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC) Ashlockett (talk) 14:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ashlockett: - I'm still confused. The "rest of the article" concludes with a paragraph about Hg and TA which is redundant with the proposed addition.

My suggestion would be to drop all the minor details about successive acquisitions in the existing article, since that's basically reporting on quarterly progress (especially anything sourced to news-wire / press-release sources). The article should be of broad interest, in the sense of an encylopedia.

Partly done I have changed the lede to your text (replacing the one paragraph by two paragraphs)

I have also made the deletions and additions to infobox (but clarify, did you mean to eliminate the logo from the infobox? I left it for now.)

I have not tried to go beyond that, but perhaps you can clarify your aims. Fiske (talk) 15:39, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

References

Keith Secola

COI edit request June 2026

I have a personal connection to the subject, so I would not be able to edit about him neutrally.

Secola's biography on his website here can be used to cite a number of unsourced claims, including his birth year, birthplace, and education.

Probably not suitable to cite for things like awards he's won, most of which should probably be removed per WP:BLP as they've remained unsourced since I added CN tags in Nov '24, unless whoever reviews this request wants to do a search themselves. ~2026-32855-54 (talk) 17:15, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Young Democratic Socialists of America

Proposed updates to lead, infobox, and early history

I am an active YDSA member, so I am requesting review rather than editing the article directly.

I would like to propose a first set of limited changes to the article’s lead, infobox, and early history section. The article currently has citation and primary-source tags, and some claims in the early history section are either unsourced or broadly phrased. These changes add clearer citations and narrow some wording that is currently unsourced or broadly phrased.

The main changes are:

• Update the lead to state that the organization was founded in 1982 as the Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section, changed its name to Young Democratic Socialists in 1997, and adopted its current name in 2017.
• Update the infobox with leadership and citations.
• Revise the 1980–2000 section to better source the organization’s early anti-apartheid, Central America, labor, anti-sweatshop, and prison-divestment activity.
• Replace the unsourced or under-sourced “citation needed” language with citations to Joseph Schwartz’s DSA history, the DSA Fund’s YDSA history, NYU archival records, Phoenix New Times, The Temple News, and Prison Legal News.

I have tried to keep the language neutral and to avoid adding any promotional claims. I am posting this in parts so editors can review each proposed change separately.

Proposed infobox update:

Please add the following leadership lines and update the membership line:

| membership = {{increase}} 2,735<ref name="2026-apportionment">{{Cite web |no-tracking=true|title=[PUBLIC] 2026 YDSA Convention Apportionment |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NkkFlBIuWVri3X-IfCAyMyVagEUZQZdE2DURDF80eHE/edit |access-date=April 16, 2026 |website=Google Docs |language=en-US}}</ref>
| leader title = Co-chairs
| leader = Daniel Salup-Cid<ref name="DSA-structure">{{Cite web |no-tracking=true|title=Leadership and Structure |url=https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/structure/ |website=Democratic Socialists of America |access-date=May 28, 2026}}</ref><br />Sara Almosawi<ref name="DSA-structure" />

Proposed replacement text for lead:

The '''Young Democratic Socialists of America''' ('''YDSA''') is the youth section of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA). Founded in 1982 as the '''Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section''', the organization changed its name to '''Young Democratic Socialists''' ('''YDS''') in 1997 and adopted its current name in 2017.<ref name="Schwartz-DSA-history">{{Cite web |no-tracking=true|last=Schwartz |first=Joseph M. |date=July 2017 |title=A History of Democratic Socialists of America 1971–2017 |url=https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/history/ |access-date=May 28, 2026 |website=Democratic Socialists of America}}</ref><ref name="YDSA-history">{{cite web |no-tracking=true|last1=Duhalde |first1=David |last2=Kreider |first2=Ben |title=History of Young Democratic Socialists of America |url=https://dsafund.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/History-Of-YDSA-8.5-%C3%97-11-in-August-2022.pdf |publisher=DSA Fund |access-date=May 28, 2026}}</ref> As of April 2026, YDSA had 2,735 members.<ref name="2026-apportionment" />

Proposed replacement text for 1980-2000 section:

In 1980, ''Democratic Left'' reported that the Youth Section of the [[Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee]] (DSOC) had grown from 600 to nearly 1,200 members and from 15 to more than 30 chapters over the previous year.<ref>{{Cite magazine |no-tracking=true|date=October 1980 |title=Youth Parley |url=https://dlarchive.dsausa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DL_1980_V008_08_final.pdf |magazine=Democratic Left |publisher=Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee |page=12 |access-date=May 28, 2026}}</ref> Following the merger of DSOC and the [[New American Movement]] in 1982, DSOC's youth section continued as the '''Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section'''.<ref name="Schwartz-DSA-history" /> In the 1980s, the Youth Section organized against [[apartheid]] in South Africa and United States intervention in [[Central America]].<ref name="Schwartz-DSA-history" /> [[New York University]] archival records list DSA Youth Section and YDS files concerning South Africa initiatives, Nicaraguan student tours and exchanges, and Central America/Southern Africa solidarity work.<ref>{{Cite web |no-tracking=true|title=Series IV. Youth Section/Young Democratic Socialists of America: Democratic Socialists of America Records |url=https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/tam_105/contents/aspace_42e24784fa039770fac85d6910e2dcbf/ |access-date=May 28, 2026 |website=NYU Special Collections Finding Aids}}</ref>

During the 1990s, as DSA community chapters declined in activity, the Youth Section became one of the organization's main areas of activity.<ref name="YDSA-history" /> Youth Section chapters focused on labor organizing, opposition to the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]], protests against the [[World Trade Organization]], and involvement in the [[AFL-CIO]]'s Union Summer in 1996.<ref name="YDSA-history" /> During this period, tensions between DSA and the Youth Section contributed to the Youth Section adopting the name '''Young Democratic Socialists''' ('''YDS''') and developing a more distinct identity.<ref name="YDSA-history" /> Some YDS chapters also took part in student anti-sweatshop organizing; at [[Arizona State University]], YDS members campaigned against the university's Adidas apparel contract and pushed the university to join the [[Worker Rights Consortium]].<ref name="Phoenix-New-Times-ASU" />{{Cite web |no-tracking=true|last=Hibberd |first=James |date=March 8, 2001 |title=Big Mac on Campus |url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/big-mac-on-campus-6418285/ |access-date=May 28, 2026 |website=Phoenix New Times}}</ref> Around 2000 and 2001, student activists opposed campus contracts with [[Sodexo|Sodexho Marriott]] because of parent company Sodexho Alliance's investments in private prison companies.<ref>{{Cite web |no-tracking=true|date=May 3, 2001 |title=Colleges Across the U.S. Protest Sodexho Marriot |url=https://temple-news.com/colleges-across-the-us-protest-sodexho-marriot/ |access-date=May 28, 2026 |website=The Temple News}}</ref> YDS members were involved in related campus campaigns, including a campaign against Sodexho Marriott's food-service contract at [[Arizona State University]] and support for a December 2000 student occupation at [[Ithaca College]].<ref name="Phoenix-New-Times-ASU" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |no-tracking=true|title=New York Students Stage Private Prison Protest |magazine=Prison Legal News |volume=12 |issue=5 |date=May 2001 |page=12 |url=https://archive.org/details/prison_legal_news_2001 |access-date=May 28, 2026 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

FromTheRiver0713 (talk) 19:02, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

American Public University System

Unsourced history update

Hi editors, I'm Alex and I work for APEI, APUS's parent company. I noticed that a good chunk of the History section is unsourced, so I put together some new content to fix that.

So I propose replacing the first paragraph of History:

• The university was founded in 1991 by Major James P. Etter (USMC, retired) as American Military University. Operations began in January 1993 with the enrollment of 18 graduate students. Initially, the main goal of the university was to meet the unique educational needs of military personnel needing courses in specialized areas, such as counterterrorism and military intelligence, that were not included in typical university course offerings. In the early years, instruction was done through conventional correspondence.

With the following:

• American Public University System (APUS) was founded as American Military University (AMU), a private for-profit corporation. The school was created in 1991 by retired United States Marine Corps officer James P. Etter, who operated it from his home. Etter founded the school with less than US$250,000 and received assistance from the Small Business Administration to launch it. The school prioritized active duty military members who could not attend a singular school due to the constraints of their military service and focused its coursework on military history. It launched its first master's program in 1993.

I also propose putting that new paragraph under a new subheading, Founding and early history. Please let me know what you think!

I noticed that these sourcing issues are pretty pervasive throughout, so I did write a whole new draft, in case anyone is interested in taking a look. Cheers APEI Alex (talk) 21:15, 6 March 2026 (UTC) APEI Alex (talk) 21:15, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

"I noticed that these sourcing issues are pretty pervasive throughout, so I did write a whole new draft" I'll presume that with this newer draft version, the text from this request has been superceded by the draft, making this request moot. If that is the case, I'll close the request template.  Spintendo  17:55, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi Spintendo, thanks for looking at this. You’re right that the sandbox draft I linked does replace this particular request, so it’s fine to close it. Appreciate your quick attention to the matter! APEI Alex (talk) 19:08, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

History Update 2

Hi editors, continuing with my proposals to update unsourced content, I suggest making two changes:

• After the first paragraph, add new a subsection header, Accreditation and growth

Replace the following unsourced paragraph:

• In June 1995 AMU became nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). In January of the following year, the school introduced its first undergraduate programs. The first online courses and online classrooms started in 1998. In 1999, all undergraduate classes and programs went fully online, with graduate programs shifting to online in 2000.

With the following sourced paragraph:

• By 1996, the school had 11 staff members and had moved to a warehouse in Manassas, Virginia. It launched its first bachelor's programs that year. Students engaged with faculty via mail and phone in correspondence courses. AMU became a fully online school in 1998. It applied for accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools the same year and was denied in 1999. It moved its headquarters to West Virginia, allowing it to seek accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission, which it received in 2006.

References

This makes the paragraph verifiable. Please let me know what you think! APEI Alex (talk) 19:56, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Edit request reply 22-MAY-2026

  Edit request declined  

• The reason given for making this change is "This makes the paragraph verifiable"—but the newer text is completely different—so that reasoning must be false. This doesn't make the existing paragraph verifiable, it only verifies the newer text mentioning newer things, all without offering reasons why that newer text ought to be added to the article. "Because it has references, while the other text does not" is not a good enough reason on its own to justify making this change. Kindly elaborate on the reasoning for the newer text's inclusion in the article.

Regards,  Spintendo  17:55, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi again, and thanks for your feedback. Just wanted to clarify why I’m suggesting adding a new “Accreditation and growth” section.

The existing paragraph bundles several milestones together and lacks sources, so there’s no way for readers to verify the claims. For example, the 1996 Washington Post article I cited shows that by that year AMU had about 1,000 students and 11 staff, and that it was still running courses by mail and telephone. That’s important because the current paragraph asserts that national accreditation came in 1995, the first undergraduate programs launched in 1996, and everything went fully online in 1999–2000.

The 1996 article confirms that by the mid‑1990s the school had grown enough to justify adding bachelor’s programs, but also that it hadn’t yet shifted to online delivery, so it helps place those milestones in context. Then APUS’s 2011 annual report traces how the move from correspondence to online classrooms happened between 1998 and 2000 and explains why the institution sought accreditation first from one regional body and then from another.

By creating a separate section with citations, I’m trying to give readers a clear, sourced chronology rather than just adding footnotes. If you have suggestions on how to present it better or would prefer to keep some of the existing wording, let me know and I’ll be happy to adjust! APEI Alex (talk) 19:26, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

History Update 3

Hi editors, for my next request I propose updating the following History paragraph:

• In 2002 AMU expanded to become American Public University System and established American Public University, intended primarily for civilians interested in public service programs. In 2006 APUS was granted regional accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. In 2012 American Public University System resigned its DETC accreditation. In 2016, the university was listed as tied for 58th place in U.S. News & World Report ranking of online bachelor's degree Programs.

References

With the following:

• The organization changed its name to American Public University System and founded American Public University alongside AMU in 2002 in an effort to reach a wider student base. APUS comprised three schools by 2002: American Public University, American Military University, and American Community College. It had approximately 5,000 students enrolled pursuing associate, bachelor, and master's degrees. The organization received US$10 million in venture capital funding from ABS Capital Partners that year.

References

This keeps the focus on the history of APUS, adds context around the composition of APUS and its student body at the time, improves sourcing, and removes redundancies introduced by my last edit request. Please let me know what you think! APEI Alex (talk) 15:50, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Edit request reply 22-MAY-2026

  Edit request declined  

• The provided reason for making this change merely describes the changes being made, rather than a reason. For example, the reason says "adds context around the composition of APUS". So, what is it about that added context, which makes the proposed text an ideal replacement? Please provide a reason why the newer text is superior to the existing text, including why—and in what way—this newer text would be more informative for readers.

Regrds,  Spintendo  17:55, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi again, Spintendo, thanks for the follow‑up. I believe that the new paragraph is more informative because the current paragraph only lists a name change, an accreditation date and a ranking without explaining what actually happened.

The new text focuses on the 2002 reorganization itself. APUS split into two schools—American Military University for military students and American Public University for non‑military students—so that it could offer the same education to a broader audience of working adults. It also notes that the system had more than 5,000 students and raised $10 million in venture funding at that time, giving readers a sense of the scale and momentum behind the change. Those details replace unsourced statements and move the ranking information to a more appropriate section, which is why I think the new text is a clearer, more useful summary of that period in APUS’s history.

Thanks again for your consideration on all of my requests, looking forward to hearing your thoughts! APEI Alex (talk) 19:46, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Organization and administration section

Hi editors, my next request is to create a new section, Organization and administration, to house various operational details consistent with the guidelines for university articles. What I propose includes information about parent company APEI and a second infobox. Please let me know what you think! APEI Alex (talk) 19:50, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[1]

Governance

American Public Education, Inc.

Traded as	Nasdaq: APEI
Industry	Education
Founded	1991 (1991)
Founder	James P. Etter
Headquarters	Charles Town, West Virginia , United States
Key people	Angela K. Selden (CEO) Richard W. Sunderland Jr. (Executive VP, CFO) Eric C. Andersen (chair)
Revenue	US$624.6 million (2024)
Net income	US$16.1 million (2024)
Total assets	US$570.1 million (2024)
Total equity	US$303.9 million (2024)
Number of employees	6,117 (2024)
Website	apei.com
Footnotes

APUS is governed as a private, for-profit organization by a board of trustees. It is a subsidiary of American Public Education, Inc. Nuno Fernandes is president; Elizabeth Johnson is provost.

APEI

American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) is the parent company of APUS. APEI has four schools in its system: American Public University, American Military University, Rasmussen University, and Hondros College of Nursing. It is led by Chief Executive Officer Angela K. Selden and board chair Eric. C. Andersen. Richard W. Sunderland is executive vice president and chief financial officer.

APEI is headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia. It had revenues of approximately US$625 million and a net income of approximately US$16.1 million in 2024. APEI employed approximately 6,100 people that year.

References

APEI Alex (talk) 19:50, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm happy with the governance section, however the subject of the article is APUS not its parent company. That would belong in a separate article. Aloneinthewild (talk) 21:23, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at it! I agree that the primary focus should remain APUS, and I don't want the article to become an article about APEI.

My thinking was that, since there isn't currently a standalone APEI article and the page only includes a link back to the APUS page, a brief summary of APEI's role provides useful context for readers. APUS is wholly owned and governed by APEI, so understanding that relationship helps explain how the university system is organized today.

I'm not suggesting a full company profile or detailed financial information, just a concise overview of APEI's relationship to APUS. If a standalone APEI article is created in the future, I'd agree this could be reduced to a short summary with a link to that page. Would you be open to refining the section so it stays focused on APUS while still providing that context? APEI Alex (talk) 18:04, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Chain Bridge Bank

Requested edit: correct infobox name, officer titles, and dead citation

Disclosure: I am the Digital Communications Manager of Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. I make this request as an employee of, and on behalf of, the Bank. I have a conflict of interest and am not editing the article directly.

This request supersedes my earlier request. I am not requesting a page move, article-title change, or change to the first sentence. I have three specific requests.

1. Infobox name

In the infobox, please change the displayed name from:

"Chain Bridge Bank"

to:

"Chain Bridge Bank, N.A."

Reason: The article title can remain "Chain Bridge Bank." This request is limited to the infobox display name. The Bank’s official website and regulatory financial filings page identify the institution as Chain Bridge Bank, N.A.

References:

• https://www.chainbridgebank.com/
• https://www.chainbridgebank.com/connect-with-us/about-us/regulatory-financial-filings

2. Outdated officer titles

In the "Leadership" section, please replace:

"David M. Evinger, president – risk management and director of Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. and Chain Bridge Bancorp, Inc."

with:

"David M. Evinger, president, chief credit officer and director of Chain Bridge Bank, N.A.; president, chief risk officer and director of Chain Bridge Bancorp, Inc."

Please also replace:

"Joanna Williamson, chief financial officer, Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. and treasurer, Chain Bridge Bancorp, Inc."

with:

"Joanna R. Williamson, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. and Chain Bridge Bancorp, Inc."

Reason: The current source for the Leadership section is a dead link, and the officer titles are outdated. The current Executive Leadership page supports these corrected titles.

3. Dead-link repair

In the "Leadership" section, the citation titled "People › Chain Bridge Bank" is a dead link:

https://www.chainbridgebank.com/connect-with-us/about-us/people

Please replace it with the Bank’s current Executive Leadership source, which also supports the corrected titles in item 2:

Thank you. Jetsmb85 (talk) 03:19, 4 June 2026 (UTC) Jetsmb85 (talk) 03:19, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Splunk

COI edit requests

Hi, I work for a communications firm that represents Splunk, and I have a few suggestions for improving this article:

• It might make sense to remove the "Licensing" section (none of the sources are very notable), or perhaps incorporate its contents into the “Products” section.
• “Notable customers” might be a more apt title for the "Users" section.
• Add to Users/Notable customers: Sports Illustrated has worked with Splunk to analyze NFL data and predict the next play during a football game. (Source: http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/20/super-bowl-100-gameplay-computers)
• Rewrite the first paragraph of the Products section, which currently has no citations. My suggested text:

Splunk's core offering, Splunk Enterprise, collects and analyzes high volumes of machine-generated data. It uses a standard API to connect directly to applications and devices. Splunk's goal is to present data reporting in a way that is comprehensible and actionable for executives outside a company's IT department.

References

• Maybe rename Products section as “Technology” (a la Sumo Logic), since each of the items isn’t necessarily a discrete product, and it’s also something of a timeline.
• Add citations for unsourced content that's already in article:
  • As of early 2015, Splunk has over 9,000 customers worldwide. — Update to “As of early 2016, Splunk has more than 10,000 customers worldwide.” (Source: http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPC5)
  • In 2012, Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK. — cite to http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/splunk-soars-in-debut/

Due to my COI, I will not be editing the page directly. I'd greatly appreciate any help or feedback. Thank you!

Mary Gaulke (talk) 04:32, 18 February 2016 (UTC); request edit template added Mary Gaulke (talk) 16:37, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

I have completed the requested edits, with some alterations. Note for other editors: additional discussion about these changes can be found at User talk:MaryGaulke#Edit requests. --Drm310 (talk) 14:41, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

a few more COI edit requests

Hi! As previously noted on this page, I work for a communications firm that represents Splunk. It's been over a year since I last checked in here, and I'd like to request a few updates:

• Six months ago an anonymous editor removed the entire "Customers" section as an "Indiscriminate directory of little encyclopedic value to the reader". What can I do to make this section more valuable? I'd previously worked with Drm310 on this list, and they organized it into sections by application. Would it be helpful if I took that approach further, pared down the list, and wrote brief descriptions of how the example customers use Splunk? Or perhaps the section could be reworked as "Applications," with the case studies providing a few examples of each application of Splunk. Given the fairly technical subject matter, I believe this section can help the reader understand what Splunk's products do.  Not done I took a look at the edit, which falls under WP:PROMO. A list of customers has no place in an encyclopedia. If someone is interested in your products, the Splunk website is linked in the article's infobox. The problem wasn't the format, case studies and paragraphs are also not welcome if they are from Splunk. See WP:Primary sources for more info.
• Infobox updates:
  • Add logo: | logo = Splunk-Logo.jpg  Done I cropped the image and removed the white background.

| logo_alt = Splunk's logo consists of the company's name in a sans-serif font, followed by a "greater than" symbol.  Done

• Remove Hunk from list of products—it's now a legacy product.  Done

• Update in lead:

• As of early 2016, Splunk has over 10,000 customers worldwide. to As of early 2017, Splunk has over 13,000 customers worldwide.  Done
• Add Australia to the list of locations with regional operations.  Done

• Add to "Products" section:

• Splunk debuted Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) in September 2015. ITSI leverages Splunk data to provide visibility into IT performance in a central location. Machine learning-driven analytics can detect unusual behavior and determine its causes and the areas it affects. Done Slight paraphrasing when I added it into the active; however, it is mostly the same. Machine learning is typically just a buzzword, so I have taken it out.

Splunk announced additional machine learning capabilities in September 2016 for its Enterprise, ITSI, Enterprise Security, and User Behavior Analytics offerings. The machine learning toolkit can be installed as a free app on top of the Splunk platform. It includes prepackaged guides for implementing common functionalities, in addition to a toolkit developers can use to create custom machine learning models for analyzing Splunk data. Not done I don't see this as a major update worthy of inclusion in the article. Shorten the section and remove the ad-like language, please.

In 2017, Splunk introduced Splunk Insights for Ransomware, an analytics tool for assessing and investigating potential threats by ingesting event logs from multiple sources. The software is targeted toward smaller organizations like universities, with pricing based on the number of users. The company also launched Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring, a service to facilitate enterprises' migration to Amazon Web Services' cloud.  Done I removed the information about pricing

• Add to end of "Splunkbase" section: Notable integrations include the Splunk App for New Relic, which helps developers and IT operations be more involved with customer experience; the ForeScout Extended Module for Splunk, which adds extra security visibility to Internet of Things devices; and Splunk App for AWS, which provides additional visibility for workloads in the cloud.  Done I removed the use cases; however, the rest of the info has been merged

• Add "Corporate affairs and culture" section:

==Corporate affairs and culture==

Splunk's name derives "spelunk", a word for exploring caves that IT specialists also apply to the practice of sifting through data. In its early years, the company attracted attention for its use of irreverent slogans like "Finding all your faults. Just like Mom." and "Take the 'sh' out of IT."  Not done The wording seems overly promotional

In 2016, as part of its Splunk4Good initiative, Splunk pledged to donate $100 million in software and support for nonprofits and schools over a 10-year period. Recipients of the donations include Crossroads Foundation, which uses Splunk for cybersecurity in collecting online donations, and Team Rubicon, which uses Splunk for big data analysis to organize veterans for volunteer opportunities after a disaster. Splunk employees also receive 3 days of paid time off annually to volunteer at an organization of their choice.

Splunk also offers an Academic Program to train new Splunk users for free. In 2016 Splunk announced a global expansion of the program, which then reached 339 U.S. institutions and hosted more than 5 million students through a partnership with Internet2.

 Done As decided below, I have added a mention of the software donations, but nothing else.

References

I won't be editing the article directly due to my COI, so I'd appreciate help or feedback in getting these updates implemented. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:31, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi MaryGaulke. Sorry for the delay in responding to the request. I have begun merging these changes into the main article. Next to each item, I have, and will continue to respond with a done tag or a not done tag explaining why. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please leave a message below. Have a nice day! Daylen (talk) 21:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

@Daylen: Thanks so much for your help! Happy to reformat or provide additional sources for anything where it's helpful. Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:54, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Daylen, thanks again for taking the time. I really appreciate your feedback.

• Re: Including use cases—I totally understand how a list of customers isn't helpful; I was envisioning something more qualitative, a bit like this section of Raspberry Pi. Since the sources come from external coverage, not Splunk comms, I don't think this falls under WP:PRIMARY.
• Additions to Splunkbase section—Just want to make sure this didn't get lost in the shuffle.
• From what I can gather, corporate social responsibility is sometimes encyclopedic; cf. Apple, Google, Sony. The $100m pledge, in particular, received extensive external coverage. Perhaps an abbreviated version of this section would be appropriate?

Thanks again! Mary Gaulke (talk) 17:21, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Typically, I flat out deny corporate social responsibility sections; however, would a limited section be okay in this case. Also, can someone please give me some guidance with the customers section, I still believe that it is unencylapedic; however, MaryGaulke would like a second opinion. Thanks for your assistance! Daylen (talk) 21:30, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

A list of customers of that kind is useless. If we could write sourced content about their sales strategy, for example whether they focus on specific sectors, that would be useful, but merely a context-free list of customer names is both useless and somewhat pathetic. Just imagine how our Microsoft and Apple, Inc. articles, or Xerox, or any other truly big company, would look like if we tried to add every sourced mention of someone using their products.

Regarding the "corporate affairs and culture", that's a decidedly mixed bag. The $100 million of software licenses and related services that they'll donate over ten years indeed seems worthy of mention, including the information in this source that it won't actually cost them anything close to $100 million and may at the same time help with employee morale and turnover. What I found even more interesting about that source is that it mentions another relevant fact about Splunk that currently isn't part of the article, namely that they're running at a loss of more than $80 million per quarter. Turning that one press release and its media coverage into two paragraphs seems undue, though. Huon (talk) 22:52, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both. I'm happy to let both drop for now or revise the Corporate affairs section per Huon's suggestions, whatever you prefer. @Daylen: What about the Products and Splunkbase suggestions above? I believe those are the only remaining unaddressed pieces. Thanks again. Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:26, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

@MaryGaulke: Please take a look at the second bullet point under products; however, everything else has now been addressed. As such, I have went ahead and closed this request. Cheers, Daylen (talk) 16:49, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

@Daylen: Thank you for your patience and thoughtful consideration here. How's this revision look to the machine learning paragraph? Mary Gaulke (talk) 18:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Splunk announced additional machine learning capabilities in September 2016 for several of its major product offerings. The machine learning toolkit can be installed for free on top of the Splunk platform.  Done Daylen (talk) 05:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

References

Suggesting updates to lead section

I'm a connected contributor with declared COI and I'll be suggesting some updates to this page. I'd like to start with suggesting changes to the into section since Splunk is no longer an independent company. Thanks for taking the time to review and any input is appreciated.

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'''Splunk Inc.''' is an American [[software]] company based in [[San Francisco, California]], that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing [[machine-generated data]] via a web-style interface. A subsidiary of [[Cisco]], its software helps capture, index and correlate real-time data in a searchable [[Content repository|repository]], from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations. Splunk describes its products as [[SIEM]], [[Security orchestration|SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response)]], and [[Observability (software)|observability]] solutions. The firm uses machine data for identifying [[Pattern recognition|data patterns]], providing metrics, diagnosing problems and providing intelligence for business operations. It is a [[Horizontal market|horizontal]] technology used for [[application management]], [[Information security|security]] and [[Compliance (regulation)|compliance]], as well as business and [[web analytics]].In September 2023, it was announced that Splunk would be acquired by [[Cisco]] for $28 billion in an all-cash deal. The transaction was completed on March 18, 2024.

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'''Splunk Inc.''' is a subsidiary of [[CISCO Systems]] that produces software for indexing, searching, and analyzing [[machine-generated data]], allowing for the creation of dashboards, alerts, graphs, and reports to monitor system health and to detect and respond to issues in real time. With a focus on [[cyber security]] and [[Observability (software)|observability,]] Splunk describes its [[On-premises software|on-premises]] software and [[SaaS]] products as [[SIEM]], [[Security orchestration|SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response)]], and [[Observability (software)|observability]] solutions. Splunk was acquired by [[Cisco]] in September 2023 for $28 billion in an all-cash deal. The transaction was completed on March 18, 2024.The company was based in [[San Francisco, California]],

SBCornelius (talk) 18:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Brandon, tagging you here to ask if you could weigh in on the proposed edits above. The request is in the queue for review, but it would be great to get some feedback so I can adjust before official review. Thanks for your time. SBCornelius (talk) 18:36, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

@Likeanechointheforest, thanks for your input on the BMC article. I was hoping you might be able to weigh in on this description as well. The main point is that Splunk is no longer an independent company. Thanks for your time an please let me know what you think when you have time. SBCornelius (talk) 19:50, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Done Encoded  Talk 💬 23:04, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

@Encoded, thank you! SBCornelius (talk) 18:41, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Requesting edits to the History section

I'm a connected contributor with a declared COI. I'd like to suggest the following edit to the Company Growth subsection of the History section. I think the detailed list of acquisitions is unnecessary, so I've replaced it with a consolidated paragraph that provides highlights. I have also pulled in information from the Recent History subsection, so it could be eliminated. Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing feedback.

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In September 2013 the company acquired [[Bugsense|BugSense]], a mobile-device data-analytics company. BugSense provides "a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality." It supplied a "[[Software development kit|software developer kit]]" to give developers access to data analytics from [[mobile device]]s that it managed from its scalable [[Cloud computing|cloud]] platform. The acquisition amount was undisclosed.In December 2013, Splunk acquired Cloudmeter, a provider of network data capture technologies. In June 2015, Splunk acquired the software company Metafor that uses [[machine learning]] technology to analyze data generated from IT infrastructure and applications. In July 2015, Splunk acquired Caspida, a [[cybersecurity]] startup, for <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$190 million</span>.In October 2015, Splunk sealed a "cybersecurity alliance" with U.S. government security contractor [[Booz Allen Hamilton|Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.]] to offer combined cyber threat detection and intelligence-analysis technology.In 2016, Splunk pledged to donate $100 million in [[software license]]s, training, support, education, and volunteerism for [[Nonprofit organization|nonprofits]] and schools over a 10-year period.According to [[Glassdoor]], it was the fourth highest-paying company for employees in the United States in April 2017. In May 2017, Splunk acquired Drastin, a software company that provides search-based analytics for enterprises.In September 2017, Splunk acquired SignalSense which developed cloud-based data collection and breach detection software. Splunk announced it was using machine learning about that time. In October 2017, Splunk acquired technology and intellectual property from smaller rival Rocana. On April 9, 2018, Splunk acquired Phantom Cyber Corporation for approximately US$350 million. In April 2018, it reached US$14.8 billion of market capitalization. On June 11, 2018, Splunk announced its acquisition of VictorOps, a [[DevOps]] incident management startup, for US$120 million. In July 2018 Splunk acquired KryptonCloud, an [[Industrial internet of things|industrial IoT]] and analytics [[Software as a service|SaaS]] company. Splunk acquired the cloud monitoring company, [[SignalFx]], in October 2019 for $1.05 billion. Two weeks later on September 4, 2019, Splunk acquired Omnition—an early-stage startup specializing in distributed tracing—for an undisclosed amount.Splunk also announced the launch of its corporate venture fund, Splunk Ventures—a $100 million Innovation Fund and a $50 million Social Impact Fund to invest in early-stage startups.

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Between 2013 and 2019, Splunk expanded its capabilities through a series of acquisitions in data analytics, cybersecurity, and observability, including [[Bugsense|BugSense]], Cloudmeter, Metafor, Caspida, Phantom Cyber, VictorOps, and SignalFx. The company also formed partnerships, such as a cybersecurity alliance with Booz Allen Hamilton, pledged $100 million in software and training to nonprofits and schools, and was recognized among the highest-paying U.S. companies by Glassdoor. Splunk Cloud received [[FedRAMP]] authorization from the [[General Services Administration]] FedRAMP Program Management Office at the moderate level in 2019, enabling Splunk to sell to the federal government. In 2020, Splunk announced the launch of its corporate venture fund, Splunk Ventures—a $100 million Innovation Fund and a $50 million Social Impact Fund to invest in early-stage startups.On November 15, 2021, [[Doug Merritt]] stepped down as president and CEO. Graham Smith, Splunk's chairman since 2019, took over as interim CEO. On March 2, 2022, Splunk named Gary Steele, previously at [[Proofpoint, Inc.|Proofpoint]], as its CEO and the successor to interim chief Graham Smith effective April 2022.

SBCornelius (talk) 20:13, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Encoded, I hope you're doing well. This request is a bit of a restructuring, so I was wondering if you had an opinion about shortening this section in this way. It seems a bit overly detailed to me, but I'd value your opinion. Thanks! SBCornelius (talk) 16:52, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Partly done:

Agreed this significantly reduced unnecessary details so implemented edit with minor adjustments found in supporting sources. While I'd personally agree with your suggested removal of some listed acquisitions for WP:NOTE reasons, would like a second opinion before doing so. VacFiller (talk) 19:44, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Proposed edits to the Product section

I'm a connected contributor with a declared COI. I'd like to propose updates to the product section that bring it up-to-date and remove the focus on discontinued products. I'm also proposing a summarized version of the Cloud Transformation subsection. Thanks for your consideration and all feedback is appreciated.

Product Section

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Splunk's core offering collects and analyzes high volumes of [[machine-generated data]]. It uses a lightweight agent to locally collect log messages from files, receives them via TCP or UDP syslog protocol on an open port (not preferred), or calls scripts to collect events from various [[application programming interfaces]] (APIs) to connect to applications and devices. It was developed for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed applications based on log messages.Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) provides [[Security information and event management|security information]] and event management (SIEM) for machine data generated from security technologies such as network, endpoints, access, malware, vulnerability, and identity information. It is a premium application that is licensed independently.

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Splunk provides a security and observability platform used to monitor, analyze, and respond to data from IT systems and applications. The platform includes tools for threat detection, incident response, and maintaining system reliability. It incorporates artificial intelligence features and is designed to process large volumes of machine-generated data in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.'''Splunk Enterprise''' is a united security and observability platform to detect, investigate, and respond to digital threats while maintaining system reliability. Powered by AI and deployable in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the software analyzes high volumes of [[machine-generated data]] and delivers actionable insights.'''Splunk Cloud Platform''' is a data analytics service that provides visibility into digital systems, including security, infrastructure, and applications. It enables large-scale data collection and integration across multiple environments and supports both on-premises and cloud deployments. The platform combines security monitoring, observability, and custom analytics within a framework designed for hybrid and multicloud use.'''Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)''' provides [[Security information and event management|security information]] and event management (SIEM) for machine data generated from security technologies such as network, endpoints, access, malware, vulnerability, and identity information. It is a premium application that is licensed independently.'''Splunk SOAR''' automates repetitive security tasks and orchestrates incident response workflows, allowing security analysts to detect and respond to threats.'''Splunk Attack Analyzer''' detects and analyzes credential phishing and malware attacks, providing information about attack vectors and enabling threat mitigation.'''Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence''' provides continuous asset discovery, risk scoring, and compliance monitoring that reduce exposure to vulnerabilities. '''Splunk Observability Cloud''' is a monitoring and analytics platform that extends the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise to include metrics and traces alongside log data. It integrates open-source tools to provide unified visibility across hybrid and multicloud environments.'''Splunk AppDynamics''' is an application performance monitoring and observability platform that provides real-time visibility into the performance and availability of software applications. It monitors complex, distributed systems, identifies performance issues, and optimizes user experience and business outcomes.'''Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) offers full-stack visibility for IT operations, combining machine learning-driven analytics, AIOps, and incident intelligence..

Discontinued products (new subheading)

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In 2011, Splunk released Splunk Storm, a cloud-based version of the core Splunk product. Splunk Storm offered a turnkey, managed, and hosted service for machine data. In 2013, Splunk announced that Splunk Storm would become a completely free service and expanded its cloud offering with Splunk Cloud. In 2015, Splunk shut down Splunk Storm. In 2013, Splunk announced a product called Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, which supports accessing, searching, and reporting on external data sets located in [[Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]] from a Splunk interface. In 2015, Splunk announced a Light version of the core Splunk product aimed at smaller IT environments and mid-sized enterprises. Splunk debuted Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) in September 2015. ITSI leverages Splunk data to provide visibility into IT performance. Software analytics can detect anomalies and determine their causes and the areas it affects.<span class="anchor" id="Splunk SOAR"></span>Splunk ''Security Orchestration, Automation and Response'' (SOAR) free community edition, is free for as long as you want, up to 100 actions/day to automate tasks, orchestrate workflows, and reduce incident response times for cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployments.

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In 2011, Splunk released Splunk Storm, a cloud-based version of the core Splunk product. Splunk Storm offered a turnkey, managed, and hosted service for machine data. In 2013, Splunk announced that Splunk Storm would become a completely free service and expanded its cloud offering with Splunk Cloud. In 2015, Splunk shut down Splunk Storm. In 2013, Splunk announced a product called Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, which supports accessing, searching, and reporting on external data sets located in [[Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]] from a Splunk interface. In 2015, Splunk announced a Light version of the core Splunk product aimed at smaller IT environments and mid-sized enterprises.

SBCornelius (talk) 20:38, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Convent & Stuart Hall

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Convent & Stuart Hall is an independent Catholic K-12 school in the city of San Francisco. The school was founded in 1887 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, also known as the Society of the Sacred Heart^[1]. The school consists of four divisions: Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, Stuart Hall High School, Convent Elementary School, and Stuart Hall for Boys. The school also operates under the name of Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco offering single-sex and coeducational classes. It is part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.

• Reason for the change: I am part of the faculty at Convent & Stuart Hall and would like to propose the above changes to the current article to better reflect the actual structure and nature of the school
• References supporting change: https://www.sacredsf.org/about/history-network-of-sacred-heart-schools

The Great Blue Heron Music Festival

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{{Edit COI}} COI disclosure: I have a connection to the Great Blue Heron Music Festival and am requesting these changes rather than editing the article directly.

I've expanded the article and rebuilt its sourcing on independent newspaper and music-press reporting (The Post-Journal, Erie Reader, Jambands/Relix, NYS Music, JamBase, Live for Live Music, The Villager, WRFA), using the festival's own website only for a few plain descriptive details. I believe this addresses the {{tl|More citations needed}} and {{tl|More footnotes needed}} tags, but I leave removal of those templates to a reviewing editor. Proposed full replacement text follows.

{{tlx|Short description|Annual music festival in Sherman, New York, US}}

{{Infobox music festival | image = | caption = Poster (2007) | genre = Americana, old-time, bluegrass, Cajun, zydeco, reggae, funk, jam band | dates = Early July (Independence Day weekend) | location = Heron Farm & Event Center, Sherman, New York | years_active = 1992–present | founders = Julie Rockcastle, David Tidquist | website = {{URL|https://greatblueheron.com/}} | music_festival_name = The Great Blue Heron Music Festival }}

The Great Blue Heron Music Festival, commonly called Blue Heron or the Heron, is an annual music festival held over the Independence Day weekend in early July at the Heron Farm & Event Center in Sherman, Chautauqua County, New York, United States. Founded in 1992, the camping-based festival is held on a working farm and presents a diverse, multi-genre lineup of roots, folk, bluegrass, reggae, and jam music by regional and national artists across several stages, drawing several thousand attendees.

The festival grew out of the same Western New York and Finger Lakes roots-music scene as the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, and expanded from a single-day event into a multi-stage festival of more than 30 acts. The band Donna the Buffalo has performed every year and is regarded as the festival's de facto house band; other acts to have appeared include Rusted Root, The Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, 10,000 Maniacs, The Wailers, Sam Bush, and Jim Lauderdale.

{{Fake heading|sub=2|History}} The first Great Blue Heron Music Festival was held on July 4, 1992, founded by Julie Rockcastle and David Tidquist on Rockcastle's family farm near Sherman. Tidquist, a regional promoter who had been involved with the GrassRoots festival circuit associated with Donna the Buffalo, wanted to start an outdoor festival in the area, while Rockcastle's family owned the land. Donna the Buffalo performed at the first festival and has appeared every year since; the Pittsburgh band Rusted Root marked the release of its debut album, Cruel Sun, at the inaugural event. Conceived to present "a diverse assortment of original music" by regional and national artists, the festival was initially planned as a single day but soon expanded to a three-day format.

Through the 2000s and 2010s the festival became an established regional event drawing several thousand people each Fourth of July weekend; a 2013 review counted more than 30 bands and an estimated 5,000 or more attendees. Its bills ranged from the festival's roots-music core to national touring acts: The Avett Brothers played in 2007, the 23rd festival in 2014 featured Donna the Buffalo and The Horse Flies, the 26th in 2017 paired the house band with Jim Lauderdale, and the 28th in 2019 was headlined by The Wailers, Donna the Buffalo, and the Jamestown-founded 10,000 Maniacs. The 2020 and 2021 festivals were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the event resumed in 2022.

The festival marked its 30th anniversary in 2023, with Donna the Buffalo headlining a bill of 33 acts that included Peter Rowan and Keller Williams. The 2024 edition was headlined by Sam Bush and added a larger stage in the woods. Co-founder David Tidquist died in November 2024; the 2025 festival was dedicated to him and its main stage was renamed "David's Stage," with a lineup that included Andy Frasco, Beats Antique, and Dustbowl Revival. The 2026 festival, the 33rd, was scheduled for July 2–5 and expanded to a four-day format led by Ripe, The Dip, Donna the Buffalo, and Moontricks.

{{Fake heading|sub=2|Format and venue}} The festival takes place on the Rockcastle family's farm and campground outside Sherman, where the owners raise grass-fed cattle and organic shiitake mushrooms; the land has operated as a campground since the 1960s. It is an all-ages, camping-based event with a multigenerational, family-oriented audience that the Erie Reader has described as "a festival for the generations"; attendees greet one another with the phrase "Happy Heron." The festival is independently financed by the Rockcastles and does not carry corporate sponsorship.

Music is presented on several stages. For much of the festival's history these were a main stage, an all-night dance tent, and the wooded Tiger Maple Stage; a larger stage deep in the woods, later named the Dragon Stage, was added in 2024, and the main stage was renamed David's Stage in 2025 in honor of co-founder Tidquist. Alongside the music, the festival offers instrument and dance workshops, food and craft vendors, children's and teens' activities, and swimming at a lifeguarded pond.

{{Fake heading|sub=2|Music and performers}} The festival's programming is rooted in Americana, old-time, and bluegrass, and extends across Cajun, zydeco, reggae, funk, soul, and jam band styles, with an emphasis on artists who perform original material. Donna the Buffalo serves as the recurring headliner and house band, and has at times backed other performers, including two-time Grammy Award winner Jim Lauderdale. Well-known acts to have played the festival include The Avett Brothers, who appeared in 2007, as well as Lake Street Dive, Rusted Root, 10,000 Maniacs, The Wailers, Sam Bush, Keller Williams, Peter Rowan, Rubblebucket, Andy Frasco, and Beats Antique.

According to the festival's roster of past performers, artists who have appeared at the Great Blue Heron Music Festival include 10,000 Maniacs, Alison Pipitone, Armor & Sturtevant, Baby Gramps, Bombadil, Donna the Buffalo, Hypnotic Clambake, Jim Donovan, John & Mary, Kate Jacobs, Lightnin' Wells, Los Straitjackets, Peacefield, Rusted Root, Say Zuzu, Slobberbone, Slo-Mo, Southern Culture on the Skids, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, The Avett Brothers, The Big Wu, The Burns Sisters, The Campbell Brothers, The Horse Flies, The Mighty Wallop!, The Mollys, The Red Stick Ramblers, The Tarbox Ramblers, Tim O'Brien, Tony Vacca, Zekuhl, and Zydeco Experiment. More recent performers have included Lake Street Dive, The Wailers, Sam Bush, Keller Williams, Peter Rowan, Rubblebucket, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Beats Antique, Ripe, and The Dip.

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• {{Official website|https://greatblueheron.com/}}

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{{Respond|greyexclamation|Note:}} I marked this as a COI request. Please be very patient; the backlog is long. Kodning 🌸 (talk) 03:00, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Allen Kukovich

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Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Kukovich was instrumental in enacting the Children's Health Insurance Program in Pennsylvania, serving as Prime Sponsor of House Bill 20, which was signed into law by Governor Bob Casey on December 2, 1992, providing health insurance to uninsured children who are not eligible for Medicaid. [citation]

In 1997, then-president Bill Clinton signed the federal CHIP program into law as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, [citation] with the Pennsylvania CHIP program as a model. CHIP has provided hundreds of thousands of children in Pennsylvania with free or low-cost health insurance each year.

* Reason for the change: Expanding biography with relevant information

* References supporting change: https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs/resources/chip

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/sources-definitions/chip.htm

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Death Penalty

Kukovich advocated repeatedly to abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. In a bipartisan partnership with Republican Senator Edward Helfrick, he introduced bills opposing the death penalty, including Senate Bill 12 in 2003, which proposed an amendment to the Pennsylvania State Constitution prohibiting the death penalty. [citation]

The historic hearings Kukovich and Helfrick initiated paved the way for Pennsylvania’s eventual moratorium on the death penalty.

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Hate Crime Amendment

In 2001, Kukovich authored Pennsylvania’s historic Hate Crimes Amendment to the Ethnic Intimidation Act, expanding the language of what constituted a hate crime to include: "actual or perceived ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity." At the time, it was the most inclusive language in any hate crime legislation in the United States. [citation]

In 2008, the Hate Crimes Amendment was struck down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [citation]

Reforms

Kukovich helped create the state Ethics Act, which regulated the behavior of elected officials and created the State Ethics Commission [link]

He also led a decades-long quest to enact campaign finance reform in Pennsylvania, advocating for publicly financed elections and limits on campaign spending. [citation]

Personal Life

Allen is married to Nancy Kukovich, the CEO of Adelphoi, a nonprofit providing programs for at-risk teens. They have one daughter, Alexandra, who was born in 1994.

Allen Kukovich’s papers are held at the University of Pittsburgh Archives. [citation]

* Reason for the change: Expanding with relevant information

* References supporting change: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-ais200421/viewer#aspace_ref446_hcb

https://www.eriegaynews.com/news/article.php?recordid=pahatecrimes.htm

https://www.delcotimes.com/2008/07/28/hate-crime-amendments-are-struck-down-by-court/

Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-ais200421/viewer

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