Wikipedia talk:Harassment

"Unless unintentional and non-malicious (for example, where Wikipedians know each other off-site and may inadvertently post personal information, such as using the other person's real name in discussions), attempted outing is sufficient grounds for an immediate block. This applies to the personal information of both editors and non-editors."

Lets say a child under 18. The parent can legally search through the childs phone and can find wikipedia accounts. If the parent is a wikipedia editor, this is hard to avoid. Oversight exists but wikimedia does not prioritise those over 16 (18 is what I said) so what to do. Can I ask my parents to sign an NDA about the things on my phone legally or not. ~2025-34759-12 (talk) 06:25, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

You can ask your parents anything. Whether you can require them to sign an NDA, whether any such agreement would be legally binding and if so how are not questions we can answer - firstly it will definitely vary by jurisdiction and possibly by other factors including the child's age and nature of the content found (for example, at least in the UK, I believe parents would be required to contact the police if they discovered some types of illegal content). Secondly, Wikipedia cannot give legal advice (see Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer). Thryduulf (talk) 10:37, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Then should Wikimedia prioritize 16–18-year-olds in oversight. ~2025-34875-80 (talk) 22:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Is this a real problem or are you just fearmongering? For it to happen is a very rare situation as if the child is an editor, the parent is usually not an editor and if the parent is an editor the child usually is not an editor. Even if both have Wikimedia accounts, it will require both the parent AND the child to be an editor in the same wiki (locally, not globally which makes it even rarer) and the parent checking the child's phone, even rarer too. Deliberately going onto the wiki the child edits on may be treated as intentional. ~2025-34969-34 (talk) 22:22, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

If the parent knows the account name by searching the phone, they may know the password. You can use incognito and remember your username and password in your head. ~2025-34879-70 (talk) 22:32, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Parent legally allowed to search childs phone.

Parent found wikipedia password

Parent hacked into account (no legal way for child to avoid it)

Parent vandalise wiki

Child gets banned with no legal way to avoid it.

The little brother excuse may be good in this situation. ~2025-34971-89 (talk) 22:43, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

A user Aesurias is repeatedly accusing me of LLM usage without any proof. Anjukkanju777 (talk) 03:35, 7 December 2025 (UTC)