List of editors with names or signatures easily confused
Essay on editing Wikipedia
This is an essay on editors who may be confused with one or more other editors.
This page in a nutshell: Before flying off the handle at someone, make sure you haven't confused them with someone else.
Editors should feel free to make note here of pairs or groups of colleagues with confusingly similar names, or colleagues they have confused in the past, so next time they can figure out just who it is they're vaguely remembering. Diffs to wacky comedies-of-mistaken-identity are especially valued.
The {{ Confused? }} template – which renders like this[Confused editor?] and links to this page – is available for calling attention to editors who may be confused.
Editors finding themselves frequently confused (sometimes known as redirect-class Wikipedians [JK ] ) may consider using a distinct custom signature to help better establish their identity.
0xDeadbeef and Deadbeef
28bytes , Q28
331dot , 333-blue , Bbb23 , Sro23
78.26 , 7&6=thirteen , 3family6
A. B. , Another Believer [ 1]
Aca , Acaalexaca , Aka , Ата (all sysops on different Wikipedias)
Acroterion , Aquillion
Alaexis , Alexis Jazz
Alien333 , Thebiguglyalien
Alison , AlisonW [ 2]
AlphaBeta135 , AlphaBetaGamma
AmirahBreen , Abdallem [ 3]
AndyTheGrump and Andy Dingley and Pigsonthewing (signs as Andy Mabbett) and Andrewa and Andrew Davidson and Anne drew Andrew and Drew
AngusWOOF and EpicPupper
Anomie , The Anome and The Gnome
Anarchyte and Anachronist
Antandrus and Arcturus
Aza24 and AzaToth
Asmodea Oaktree , Oaktree b
Barkeep , Barkeep49
Barek , Berek ,[ 4] Berig
Bawolff , Snowolf , Seewolf (all sysops on different projects)
BDD , DGG , BD2412 ,[ 5] B3251
Beland , Begoon (because "Beland" and "Begoon" are close to indistinguishable, and easily confused... must be those first 2 letters, or word length, or both? Be wildering...) ? And then there's Bagumba ...
Belle , Bellezzasolo , Bielle
Berean Hunter , Bearian , and Bearcat (Bearcat confirms that this has actually happened for realz); thence Hashar/Cat , Sarr Cat , Sherwood Cat , SchroCat
(Beyond My Ken , Before My Ken , and Between My Ken [all the same user]) and BMK or Bmk
Bilby , BilCat , Bilorv
(Bishonen , Bishzilla , Bishapod ) and Bsherr
Blackmane , Black Kite , Black Falcon
Blubabluba9990 , Blablubbs , Beeblebrox
Blue Square Thing , Squared.Circle.Boxing
Bobherry and Ronherry
Borsoka , Bsoyka
Bradv , Newyorkbrad (both on Arbcom a/o May 2020)
Buaidh and Buidhe
Burmeister and Burmiester [ 6]
Buster7 and BusterD
Butwhatdoiknow and WhatamIdoing [ 7] and Anythingyouwant
C.Fred and CFredkin
Calton and Colin
CapnZapp , CaptainEek , Captain Galaxy , CAPTAIN MEDUSA , CAPTAIN RAJU , Colonel Wilhelm Klink , Colonel Warden , GeneralNotability (This is the Army, Mr. Jones )
Captainllama and Grandpallama I made this mistake just now (also, Captainllama could be in the previous group too)
Casliber , Casprings
Cassianto , Casspedia , Cassiopeia , Cecropia
Cavalryman and Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry
Celestinesucess and Celestianpower
CentreLeftRight , Lefcentreright , RightCowLeftCoast , TheImaCow
Chess , Choess , EnPassant , Pawnkingthree (Queen's gambit declined)
Chiswckchap and Chiswick Chap [ 8]
Chriscf and Chris troutman
ChrisWx and Tails Wx
ChrisTheDude and Chris the speller
Coffee , TheCoffee , CoffeeCrumbs , Coffeeandcrumbs (no, we are not making those last two up), Espresso Addict , CaffeinAddict
Colin , Colin M
Collect , CollectiveSolidarity
Count Iblis , Deacon Vorbis
Coretheapple , Closeapple , Coolabahapple
Courcelles and Carcharoth (both (former) Arbs, both speak with the same somber "professional" voice in discussions); Casliber ; Carcharoth and Corachow
Cryptic , Cryptic Canadian
Cullen , Cullen328 [ 9]
Cyberpower678 , Cyberfan195 , Cyberpower7
Czar , Czarking0
DandelionAndBurdock (signs as "D'n'B") and R'n'B
Daniel , xDanielx , Daniel Case , Daniel Quinlan
Dank , DankJae
Danny , Denny and Demmy (Wikipedian of the Year 2012)
Davey2010 , Davey2116
David A and Davide King
DeCausa and DeFacto
Deepfriedokra , Devokewater
Dicklyon , Dimadick
dinoguy2 , Dinoguy1000
Dondervogel 2 , Thunderbird2
Doug Weller and Dweller [ 10] and Dwheeler
Dr.K. and DrKay [ 11]
Drmies , Drm310 and Mr Miles
Dreamy Jazz and Alexis Jazz
Dumelow and Dumuzid
DuncanHill and Duncan.Hull
EdJohnston , EdJF , EdChem , Ed! and The ed17
Ealdgyth and Cwmhiraeth
Edgar181 , Eddie891 , Ed6767 and Editorofthewiki (commonly known as "Eddy")
EEng , AlexEng , PackMecEng , EngFram , EngineeringEditor
ElKevbo , El C , El cid, el campeador , ElSidCampeador , The C of E , El Cid (Sid Caesar, Billy the Cid, &c.)
EPIC , Epicgenius and EpicPupper
Erik , ErikHaugen , Eric and Eric Corbett ← DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE!
Essjay , Hazard-SJ , Sj , Sjö , and ŠJů
Extraordinary Writ , Writ Keeper [ 12]
FAdesdae378 and Fadesga
Femke and Femke 01
FlightTime and FlyingAce
FloNight , Floquenbeam (who conjectured It's possible this is how I inexplicably got elected to ArbCom )[ 13]
Flyer22 Frozen , Flyer22 Reborn , Flyer22 (all the same editor) and SportingFlyer
Fram and Framawiki
Frosty , Frostly , Frost (all three users are current or former page movers); NoFrost (former ruwiki AfD-closer)
Ganeshk and Ganesha811
Galobtter , Gorthian
Generalrelative , GeneralNotability ,[ 14] General Ization , GeneralizationsAreBad , TheGeneralUser
Gen. Quon , Qono
Geni , Geniac and Jeni
Gigs and Giggy
Gog the Mild and Hog Farm , similar first words and frequent activity in shared editing areas
GorillaWarfare and NuclearWarfare
Graham , Graham11 , Graham87 , Graeme Bartlett , Graham Beards , GraemeLeggett
Grayfell , GrayStorm , Graywalls , Greyjoy (cf. Primergrey)
Guy Macon , Guy M , and JzG (signature Guy ) link
HighKing and HighInBC
HurricaneEdgar , Hurricane Noah , -noah-
Ianmacm and ian.thomson
I dream of horses , IdreamofJeanie
InedibleHulk , Ineffablebookkeeper , The Inedible Bulk
Insertcleverphrasehere and AddWittyNameHere
Iridescent , Iridescence , Interstellarity
Isaacl , Vanisaac
Itxia , IXCat , and Ixtal
Jay , Joy (both admins) and JJay , JayJay
JBW (formerly JamesBWatson ) and JWB and JayBeeEll (signature JBL )[ 15] and Jbhunley (signature Jbh ) and Johnpacklambert [ 16] and JoelleJay
Jerm , Jorm
JIP , Jip Orlando
JJPMaster , JJMC89
John , Johnbod , John from Idegon , Johnuniq , John Vandenberg , John M Wolfson , John of Reading , Jon (WMF)
John of Reading , Tom.Reding (both top-30 WP:NOE )
Jo-Jo Eumerus , JoJo Anthrax
Joseph2302 , Sir Joseph
Jpgordon , JPxG , JPG-GR , JzG , JFG , and Jeff G.
JustSomeRandomGuy32 , SomeGuyWhoRandomlyEdits
Kashmiri , LéKashmiriSocialiste
Ace of Spades , King of Hearts , Queen of Hearts , Kingofaces43
L235 , L293D , L3X1
Avilich , Levivich , Mendaliv , Leitmotiv , Lepricavark (too many L's and V's)
Leaky Cauldron (aka Leaky caldron ), Theleekycauldron [ 17]
Leschnei and Lectonar
Lightbreather , Lightmouse , Light show
LouisAragon , LouisAlain
LuK3 , Luk3 , Luk
Mandruss , Mandarax , Maxaxax , Masem , Maile
Martinevans123 , Robevans123
Mastcell , MastCell
Math: Factotem and Primefac (Primefactotem would be too powerful); Primefac , PrimeHunter (link ), and Primergrey (honorable mention: AntiCompositeNumber ); Pi , Pi.1415926535 and PiRSquared17
Masem , Mason
Mathglot , Mathsci
Maxim , Maxim.il89 [ 18]
MB , M-B
Meters , 4meter4
Minorax and Mandarax
Mjroots , Ɱ , Mirji (signs ɱ)
Modernist , Mattisse
Moonriddengirl , Megalibrarygirl
MrLinkinPark333 , Ritchie333 , Seppi333 , HAL333
MrsSnoozyTurtle , Mr.weedle
Muboshgu , Bagumba
MX , MrX , MrX Horror , Mr Ernie , Mr rnddude
Mychemicalromanceisrealemo and My Chemistry romantic
M7 , Mykola7 (both Meta-Wiki admins), SM7 and Mz7 ; for the latter also JzG and MZMcBride
Nick , Nick-D , NickK ,[ 19] NickCT , Nick Moyes , Nick Thorne , Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (signature: Nearly Headless Nick)
Nigej , Nigel Ish [ 20]
Nintendofan885 , PokestarFan (CentralAuth )
North8000 , Northamerica1000
Nova Crystallis , Novem Linguae , Novo Tape
Nyttend , Nythar
Oculi , In ictu oculi
Oshwah , Oshawott 12
Parrot of Doom , TheRedPenOfDoom
Pizzaplayer219 , LaundryPizza03
Pharos , Pharaoh of the Wizards
Piotrus and Pietrus [ 21]
Pr4ever , PF4Eva
Premeditated , Premeditated Chaos
Presidentman and UnitedStatesian
Primefac , PrimeHunter link , and Primergrey
Qwerfjkl , 1234qwer1234qwer4 [ 22]
RandomCanadian , RandomGnome , RaboKarbakian (CentralAuth )
Randykitty , Randy Kryn , Korny O'Near [ 23]
Ratso Rizzo , StuRat
Ravenpuff , RationalPuff , Ravenswing , .Raven , Ravensfire
Redrose64 , Red Rose 13 , Rosiestep
RedSoxFan274 , RedSoxFan2434
Rich Farmbrough and his brother DavidFarmbrough
Rich Smith , RoySmith
RickinBaltimore , Ricky81682
Ra'ike and Rillke (both Commons admins in a large timeframe and German-speaking)
Robertsky and Robert McClenon
Robofish , Ruhrfisch , Sciencefish , Tryptofish , Tks4Fish , EvilxFish , PigeonChickenFish , Zfish118
Roger Davies , Rogerd
ARoseWolf , Roxy the dog
Sagaciousphil , Sphilbrick , Phil Bridger , PhilKnight
Sahaib , Sahaib jan
Salvio giuliano , Salavat
SarekOfVulcan , Spock of Vulcan , Lieutenant commander Spock
Schierbecker , SchreiberBike
Schazjmd , Sdrqaz , Spartaz , Sdkb , Sadko
Scorpions13256 , Scorpions1325 (same user), Scorpion0422
SD0001 , Dl2000 and S0091
Sideswipe9th and Spinixster , Spinster , Discospinster
Siroxo and Silcox
Sir Sputnik , SpacemanSpiff and Spinningspark
Skyring , GoldenRing , GoldRingChip
Skyshifter , Skysmith
Slugger O'Toole , Brews ohare
Smokefoot , SmokeyJoe
Snowded , Snow Rise , GiantSnowman , Snowmanonahoe , Snowolf , SnowFire [ 24]
SNUGGUMS , Snooganssnoogans , Smasongarrison , Huggums537
Softlavender , Softlemonades
Spencer , Stephen
Stang and Stanglavine (both Wikidata admins in a certain timeframe)
Steel , Steel1943 , Steelkamp , Steelpillow
Störm , Storm598 and Sturm
Tamwin , Tamzin
TAnthony , T. Anthony
Tegel and Teles (both stewards)
TheresNoTime , ToBeFree
Thryduulf , Thrydwulf [ 25]
Tjsmith , TJMSmith
Toddst1 , Todd.st , Toddy1
TonyBallioni , Tony1 , Tony May , TonyTheTiger , Tony Webster
TrademarkedTarantula , That Tired Tarantula
United States Man , UnitedStatesian (see the participants list for WP:2010s )
Varnent and Vermont (both WMF-affiliated queer Wikimedians active on Meta)
Vchimpanzee , valereee , Vallee01 and Vaselineeeeeeee (for those who take the middle out of a sandwich and only eat the two slices of bread)
Whispyhistory , WhisperToMe
Whoop whoop pull up , Whoop whoop beep beep
Winged Blades of Godric , WereSpielChequers , Winged Blades of Gothic , The Blade of the Northern Lights
WikiEditor1234567123 , --WikiUser1234945--
WMSR , WWGB
Wnt and WaltCip
Wordsmith and The Wordsmith
Xeno , Xaosflux (both bureaucrats)[ 26]
Yamla , Ymblanter and Yngvadottir (There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium ... )
Zaathras , Zaereth
Zero , Zero0000 , and Patient Zero
Zippybonzo and Zppix
Zzuuzz , Zzyzx11 , Zoozaz1 , Zzyxzaa26 , Zzzs