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.

If any of my alternate accounts are used to make edits (aside from my training and public use accounts), I will not object to an indefinite block being placed on my main account.

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 (which was on the topic of making Wikipedia more accessible to visually impaired users, and did not involve directly editing Wikipedia in any way). Otherwise, I do not, and will not ever, edit for pay. If someone has approached you claiming to be me (or any other editor, for that matter), and is asking for payment to write your Wikipedia article or similar, it is a scam. Please report them to paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org 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” or a “Christian 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 a semi-active 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.