[tjic]

> Around that time, Catherine J. Mathis, the chief spokeswoman for the New York Times Company, called Mr. Wales and asked for his help. Knowing that his own actions on Wikipedia draw attention, Mr. Wales turned to an administrator

Sounds like Jimbo broke both the "sock puppet rule" AND the "three revert rule".

[kragen]

No, perhaps unfortunately, suggesting edits to someone else is not a violation of the sock-puppet rule. I don't know what causes you to believe Jimmy made three reverts on the same page within 24 hours; there certainly isn't any evidence for that in the article itself, and actually there's a considerable amount of suggestion that not only didn't he do any reverts to the article himself, he didn't do any edits to the article.

When you are accusing someone of hypocrisy and serious misconduct, it is a good idea to have both a clear idea of the definitions of the kinds of misconduct you are accusing them of, and some iota of evidence that the person in question committed them. It is not generally considered good practice to throw around serious accusations in the complete absence of any incriminating evidence. And that is what you are doing.