Wikipedia talk:Requests for checkuser/Case/GabrielF

message: My concern was raised regarding this matter by the following series of edits on Anti-Zionism on February 21, before which neither Tewfik nor GabrielF appear to have edited the page in several weeks or months:
* Edit 1: 20:44 21 Feb 2007 - Tewfik enters content dispute to revert Reinhart paragraph
* Edit 2 (Talk page): 20:47 21 Feb 2007 - Three minutes later, not Tewfik, but GabrielF leaves message "explaining revert" of Reinhart paragraph (see edit summary).
Huh?  Ok, we wait.
* Edit 3 (Talk page): 21:03 21 Feb 2007 - Tewfik leaves message with nearly identical sentiment to GabrielF (but without acknowledging that GabrielF just said the same thing).
* Edit 4: 21:50 21 Feb 2007 - Tiamut reverts Tewfik back to Mackan
* Edit 5: 22:17 21 Feb 2007 - GabrielF finally reverts Tiamut in first edit on page since 13 September 2006
Specifically: What revert was GabrielF explaining at 20:47 21 Feb 2007?  It appears Tewfik was the only individual who had just reverted the page, 3 minutes ago.  GabrielF had not reverted the page for several months prior.  So it a coincidence that both show up for the first time together in this manner?
In this regard I also found another sequence of interest, which I recalled from Zionism.
*Edit 1: 15:54, 16 Feb 2007 - GabrielF reverts material for POV concerns.
*Edit 2 (Talk page): 15:58, 16 Feb 2007 - Four minutes later, GabrielF leaves message "explaining my last revert further" (see edit summary)
And then on Racism by country:
*Edit 1: 15:48, 12 Feb 2007 - GabrielF reverts, wanting more discussion
*Edit 2 (Talk page): 15:55, 12 Feb 2007 - Seven minutes later, GabrielF leaves comment with "explanation of revert" in talk.
Two points:
#A person generally does not say they are "explaining revert" unless they have actually reverted.  Rather, they post an explanation, and then revert "per talk." "Explaining revert" generally suggests one has already reverted, not that one plans to do so.
#GabrielF's previous editing indeed seems to show that his pattern is to revert and then "explain" his revert, not to "explain revert" and then assume the material will still be there to do so.
Based on these issues, I took a look through each of the edit logs (Tewfik and GabrielF), and was interested to find a very strong correlation.  That is, when GabrielF is editing, Tewfik is not.  In fact, despite rather heavy editing by both accounts, I could not find a single day among the first seven months of Tewfik's account where they were editing at the same time.  This held true until 25 May 2006.  On that day, GabrielF inexplicably went on a spree reverting vandalism on many random pages, something he hadn't done before, along with placing a series of "test" templates on user pages in very close succession.  Tewfik, during this period, went on editing as normal.  
In other words, the one time they edited at the same time, it was done in the way that would most likely have been orchestrated with a friend (or alone) to cover their tracks, and in a way that was highly inconsistent with GabrielF's previous style of editing.
:I haven't spent too much time looking through the 'evidence', but pointing to the first seven months of my editing as proof that myself and GabrielF never edit at the same time, when I edited 1, 7, 1, 35, & 35 times respectively for each month of the first half-year, with only the 7th month being reasonably active at 397, is far from a legitimate basis for checkuser. I'm not sure how someone who has managed to locate every page we edited together from my thousands of contribs sees this as proving something, but I hope that he reexamines his report with fresh-eyes and apologises for his mistake. TewfikTalk 19:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Evidence