User:Patient Zero/Disclosure

Alternative accounts

Doppelgänger accounts

The following doppelgänger accounts were all created by yours truly, back when I went by the name of Chesnaught555, to avoid impersonation:

These doppelgänger accounts were made to avoid impersonation of my current username, Patient Zero:

Other accounts

This is my public use account:

Patient Zero (Public)

This is my training account for my outreach work with Wikimedia UK:

Patient Zero (Training Account)

Administrators: If any account not listed here is claiming to be me, please block them on sight.

Other disclosures

I have never been blocked, nor have I ever been subject to any sanctions.

I have, in the past, received reimbursement for expenses relating to my outreach work with Wikimedia UK, and have taken part in a paid study which was conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic of making Wikipedia more accessible to visually impaired users. However, if someone has approached you claiming to be me, and is asking for payment to write your Wikipedia article or similar, it is a scam. For the record: I will never engage in this kind of paid editing. Please report them to [email protected] immediately.

I have an undergraduate degree in Law and a Masters degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice (both obtained from a university in the UK); however, I do not give out legal advice online.

A handful of Wikipedians know my real name, and may have seen me/heard me speaking either through Discord or through my outreach work with Wikimedia UK. I do not consider usage of my forename (commonly known as a “first name”) by other editors to be a form of outing, although I do prefer being called Patient Zero (PZ or any other variations are also fine) when speaking on-wiki. Any slip-ups are absolutely fine and do not need reverting, nor do they ever need apologising for, especially where we have any established off-wiki connection.

Through talking to my family members about my editing and outreach work, I have encouraged three of them to create their own accounts. One is an occasional contributor, another uses their account in order to benefit from a specific user script which I introduced them to and has made a few sporadic edits, and another uses their account in order to curate a watchlist of articles of their favourite sportspeople and does not edit at all. With regard to my family members who have actively contributed to Wikipedia, I take care to ensure that we do not edit the same articles (with the exception of reverting vandalism) or participate in the same discussions. I currently share an IP address with the latter two individuals; I am more than happy to privately discuss this matter with any CheckUser, Arbitration Committee incumbent, or Wikimedia Foundation employee. They are not publicly named here, so as not to out them.

I do not use the username "Patient Zero" anywhere other than:

here, on Wikipedia
on my Wikipedia-only email address
on IRC
on Discord
on Wikipediocracy, where I am solely a reader, and do not contribute.

If you see the username "Patient Zero" elsewhere, it is not me. I consider any links published of my personal social media accounts (ie. those using any variation of my real name) onto any Wikipedia page, Wikipediocracy (or any other forum/subreddit discussing Wikipedia), IRC, or Discord, to be a form of outing.