This page has been created to support editors who could risk being harassed or threatened, on-site, off-site, or in real life because of editorial actions they wish to take on Wikipedia. The real-life harassment is usually possible because editors have given out personal information about themselves, perhaps incrementally and inadvertently, without realizing that an unfriendly person would be able to synthesize the information, or because they felt they had no reason to preserve their anonymity when they first joined Wikipedia.
The list below consists either of editors who are certain there is no information on Wikipedia that leads to their real-life IDs, or else who are willing to deal with the consequences that difficult edits can lead to. Editors on the list should feel free to remove their names at any point without giving a reason.
Editors who are on this list and who like userboxes might like to add {{ User difficultedits}} to their user page. This adds the following userbox:
 | This user can, and will, make difficult edits if needed. |
- *Dan T.* 03:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC) -- They left out "alien abduction with anal probe" from the list of horrors that await editors. (Addendum: That comment made more sense earlier, when there actually was a long list of alleged awful things that could happen to an editor who triggered the wrath of the wrong people. *Dan T.* 20:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC))
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch, RichardWeiss 17:42, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
- Threats? And what? tomasz. 18:44, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
- Survive the hate machine, survive anything. Fine. Will ( talk) 23:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- Most definitely willing to make the tedious and/or difficult choices here. — Moe Epsilon 10:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- There are days when every edit I make is difficult
. —
CharlotteWebb 12:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC) - I thought this list unnecessary but today I see otherwise. DGG ( talk) 04:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Sue me, see if I care.-- Michael White T· C 01:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- I have a stressful job, and by comparison, few things on Wikipedia seem so bad. Kansan ( talk) 22:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- Since no one can possibly locate me, and even if they did, me and my collection of Glocks wouldn't care, I'm in :) fr33k man -s- 03:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- Unionhawk ( talk · contribs) Not to confuse "difficult edits" with " stupid edits" of course... Unionhawk ( talk · contribs)04:12, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- If an editor should ever feel threatened enough that they need another person to do an edit, I'll do it if I agree with the edit itself. I dream of horses ( T) @
- Me ... Mainly because I've been bombarded in the past with mails for unfairly removing spam links. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 08:29, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
- 1) Got nothing to loose. 2) Cowardice and wiki-career ambitions have become a plague on Wikipedia. 3) There's a need for it which goes beyond #(2). 4) Of course "difficult" edits /= "stupid" or "disruptive" edits. 5) Non Eastern Europe related edits only. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 09:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
- Petri Krohn ( talk) 02:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- I deal with enough nutters in real life that dealing with on-line ones won't phase me... --Korruski Talk 13:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
- Varnent ( talk) 04:33, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
- Clockery Clockery ( talk) 08:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
- I like a challenge! —M@sssly 10:09, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
- You cannot find me, I use different IP/proxies (they are not open proxies!). ;) Pandakekok9 ( talk) 10:00, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- I am happy to help out on Railroad topics and early American history issues as public works and internal improvements, etc. Risk Engineer ( talk) 19:47, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
- I'm willing to help! Smd75jr ( talk) 18:36, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- — Newslinger talk 01:13, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 09:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
- Why not? JJP...MASTER! [talk to] JJP... master? 23:34, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
- What is the point of Wikipedia if we don't make difficult edits? ThadeusOfNazereth Talk to Me! 05:24, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
- aeschylus ( talk) 17:18, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
- I wasn't aware of this list until now, but have been making "difficult" edits before in terms of reverting prolific vandals, LTAs, etc. and am still willing to do so. Patient Zero talk 00:23, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- If it must be done and it's within reason. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fakescientist8000 ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- I will make difficult edits if needed GoldenBootWizard276 ( talk) 16:05, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
- "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:28) — Compassionate727 ( T· C) 23:02, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
- You want a difficult edit, leave it to me, I’m LTA resistant up to a level of 50 LTAs. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 15:58, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
- WARNING: This user is armed with vandalicide, trollicide, sockicide and who knows what else. Please be careful while approaching her. — ~delta { talk • contributions} (she/her) 15:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- I'm willing to help. Rusty4321 talk contribs 14:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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This page has been created to support editors who could risk being harassed or threatened, on-site, off-site, or in real life because of editorial actions they wish to take on Wikipedia. The real-life harassment is usually possible because editors have given out personal information about themselves, perhaps incrementally and inadvertently, without realizing that an unfriendly person would be able to synthesize the information, or because they felt they had no reason to preserve their anonymity when they first joined Wikipedia.
The list below consists either of editors who are certain there is no information on Wikipedia that leads to their real-life IDs, or else who are willing to deal with the consequences that difficult edits can lead to. Editors on the list should feel free to remove their names at any point without giving a reason.
Editors who are on this list and who like userboxes might like to add {{ User difficultedits}} to their user page. This adds the following userbox:
|
| This user can, and will, make difficult edits if needed. |
- *Dan T.* 03:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC) -- They left out "alien abduction with anal probe" from the list of horrors that await editors. (Addendum: That comment made more sense earlier, when there actually was a long list of alleged awful things that could happen to an editor who triggered the wrath of the wrong people. *Dan T.* 20:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC))
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch, RichardWeiss 17:42, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
- Threats? And what? tomasz. 18:44, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
- Survive the hate machine, survive anything. Fine. Will ( talk) 23:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- Most definitely willing to make the tedious and/or difficult choices here. — Moe Epsilon 10:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- There are days when every edit I make is difficult
. —
CharlotteWebb 12:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- I thought this list unnecessary but today I see otherwise. DGG ( talk) 04:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Sue me, see if I care.-- Michael White T· C 01:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- I have a stressful job, and by comparison, few things on Wikipedia seem so bad. Kansan ( talk) 22:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- Since no one can possibly locate me, and even if they did, me and my collection of Glocks wouldn't care, I'm in :) fr33k man -s- 03:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- Unionhawk ( talk · contribs) Not to confuse "difficult edits" with " stupid edits" of course... Unionhawk ( talk · contribs)04:12, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- If an editor should ever feel threatened enough that they need another person to do an edit, I'll do it if I agree with the edit itself. I dream of horses ( T) @
- Me ... Mainly because I've been bombarded in the past with mails for unfairly removing spam links. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 08:29, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
- 1) Got nothing to loose. 2) Cowardice and wiki-career ambitions have become a plague on Wikipedia. 3) There's a need for it which goes beyond #(2). 4) Of course "difficult" edits /= "stupid" or "disruptive" edits. 5) Non Eastern Europe related edits only. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 09:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
- Petri Krohn ( talk) 02:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- I deal with enough nutters in real life that dealing with on-line ones won't phase me... --Korruski Talk 13:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
- Varnent ( talk) 04:33, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
- Clockery Clockery ( talk) 08:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
- I like a challenge! —M@sssly 10:09, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
- You cannot find me, I use different IP/proxies (they are not open proxies!). ;) Pandakekok9 ( talk) 10:00, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- I am happy to help out on Railroad topics and early American history issues as public works and internal improvements, etc. Risk Engineer ( talk) 19:47, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
- I'm willing to help! Smd75jr ( talk) 18:36, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- — Newslinger talk 01:13, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 09:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
- Why not? JJP...MASTER! [talk to] JJP... master? 23:34, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
- What is the point of Wikipedia if we don't make difficult edits? ThadeusOfNazereth Talk to Me! 05:24, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
- aeschylus ( talk) 17:18, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
- I wasn't aware of this list until now, but have been making "difficult" edits before in terms of reverting prolific vandals, LTAs, etc. and am still willing to do so. Patient Zero talk 00:23, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- If it must be done and it's within reason. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fakescientist8000 ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- I will make difficult edits if needed GoldenBootWizard276 ( talk) 16:05, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
- "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:28) — Compassionate727 ( T· C) 23:02, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
- You want a difficult edit, leave it to me, I’m LTA resistant up to a level of 50 LTAs. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 15:58, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
- WARNING: This user is armed with vandalicide, trollicide, sockicide and who knows what else. Please be careful while approaching her. — ~delta { talk • contributions} (she/her) 15:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- I'm willing to help. Rusty4321 talk contribs 14:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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