80.216.1.242

A note

Thanks for your COI report. Please do not draw any connections between Wikipedia accounts and real-life individuals. You can say "X sounds like the article subject", but you cannot directly say that X is someone or other in real life. It violates our WP:OUTING policy.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:04, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, apologies for that. How then do I report that a certain Person X seems to be editing the biography page of Person X? In this case Person X has even been using a Wikipedia account named "Person X", so if anyone is guilty of outing Person X, it would be Person X. 80.216.1.242 (talk) 02:12, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

IP, you just have to be a little vague about it. You can just say you think the article is an autobiography and then list ancillary accounts. We will get the idea very quickly. I'm going to leave you a welcome message next and suggest you start an account! We can use sharp-eyed and ethical editors such as yourself. You can always edit as an IP, but accounts typically garner more respect from other editors as they create edit histories that are continuous.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:32, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Also, thanks for your report. I predict we will get to the bottom of things shortly.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:34, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, I see. That makes sense. Thank you for responding to this so quickly, and good luck dealing with the article and its author(s), whoever he or they may be. I don't have any more editing to do now, but if I do, I will certainly think about creating an account. Thanks for inviting me! 80.216.1.242 (talk) 02:44, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

those accounts edit so sporadically that it may be hard to draw a technical connection between them. But keep an eye on their talk pages. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 03:31, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

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