WikiQueer:IP edits are not anonymous

Editing WikiQueer with an IP address as your identifier is often less anonymous than editing with a logged-in account.

Why is this the case?
Your IP address usually links you to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and that often links you to a particular geographical location, or to a particular company. Internet tools such as whois and Reverse DNS lookups may identify you, your employer or school, or computers that use your address, including mail or web servers. All of these provide mechanisms for curious individuals to determine where you live or who you are. This is more information than is available about an editor who registers an account and uses the account name instead of an IP address to sign their edits.

Exceptions
If you edit from an Internet cafe, a library, or another public Internet access point, or if you edit while travelling, your IP address may say very little about you. If you edit through a proxy, your IP will be that of the proxy server, rather than your own. Note that use of anonymizing proxy servers such as Tor is, at a minimum, controversial, and users editing via these proxies are often blocked.