I was notified of Jeangabin's edits based on a misplaced request for aid at the COI guideline talk page. The request was regarding a dispute at the WP Professional Wrestling Style Guide. The details of the content dispute aren't that important, what's important is that the IP above removed information in the style guide here, was reverted, removed it again, was reverted with a warning about WP:3RR, then Jeangabin appeared out of nowhere and reverted one final time.
The edit war ended there, with discussion initiated at the WP Professional Wrestling talk page. At that discussion the IP defended the edits and was unsupported by everyone but Jeangabin. The discussion concluded with the suggestion that Jeangabin and the IP may be the same person. I looked at the contributions of the two and it is fairly obvious they are. Jeangabin is essentially an SPA making the same contribution to one wrestling article after another, and the IP is making the same exact same edits. The content dispute regarding the wrestling style guide mentioned above look to be an attempt to justify hundreds of edits both Jeangabin and the IP have made to wrestling articles, and the consensus opposing Jeangabin would require the majority of their edits to be reverted in Wikipedia.
It seems obvious to me that Jeangabin is using sockpuppetry to get around the 3RR rule and to try to build a false consensus in a content dispute.
Another note: it looks like the misplaced COI request was written by Jeangabin, then removed by the IP (probably when Jeangabin realized that they had posted in the wrong place). Jeff G. restored the request, seeing it as one editor removing another's comment, not realizing that they were probably the same person undoing a mistake.
Indeed, my older brother edits under the Jeangabin name. I haven't any user name here on wikipedia so I and other memebers of my family use or could use the IP if they want to edit here. There is no secret. If you wanted an explanation, you should have ask me on the talk page 82.224.118.7 (talk) 06:30, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Administrator note Blocked 24 hours. I don't buy the "my brother did it" defense. MuZemike 21:09, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
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