seems legit per https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff_and_contractors&curid=6477&diff=102585&oldid=102583

Nope, account was self-created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/TJones_(WMF)

announced on wmfall, but yes, no relation to account i guess

Yes, I know there is a new WMF employee with that name, @Dzahn. The point is that the linked wiki account was not created by an existing WMF account, it was self-created.

yet the diff i linked and based my assumption on was an edit made by EHernandez (WMF) , not by TJones himself. she adds him to the Staff page with that username

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff_and_contractors&curid=6477&diff=102585&oldid=102583

i still don't know how we are supposed to check who is a valid employee then

The foundationwiki account system is not linked to the mediawikiwiki account system.

In T105176#1439960, @Dzahn wrote:

i still don't know how we are supposed to check who is a valid employee then

Just make sure their attached MW account was created by someone who should be creating WMF accounts.

Sorry for the confusion here. I'm following a new employee checklist, and there were no hints in terms of aiding verification. Would including my ...@wikimedia.org email help, or emailing someone from that address verifying that I made the request?

If there's anything a new employee can do to make verification easier, I can add that to the checklist for the next person.

In T105176#1456405, @Jalexander wrote:

@TJones : The short answer is that you should not be creating your own wiki account (Office IT should be doing that) ... so that it is easily clear that the WMF account was created by a staff member and not by a random individual.

@Jalexander: OIT did create all of my WMF wiki accounts. I don't know what was done or not done by OIT to make that unclear. That seems like it gets back to @Qgil's question:

In T105176#1440775, @Qgil wrote:

(Has anyone reported to OIT that so many new Wikimedia accounts seem to be create out of the official process?)

Thank you :) I have had conversations with them in the past about this and will follow up to see what's happening.

Let's fix this request. Even if the circumstances are not perfect, is there any doubt that @TJones is WMF employee Trey Jones? I don't think so, and therefore I recommend to give him access to WMF-NDA so he can do his work.

In T105176#1440775, @Qgil wrote:

(Has anyone reported to OIT that so many new Wikimedia accounts seem to be create out of the official process?)

Now covered in T107136 (thanks).