Jayjg was involved in a very strange exchange that might shed some light on his identity. Check out the histories of these pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jayjghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lot...the_Hill_Peoplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=148204258Something like what? Your link was to some corporate website. -- LOTHAR
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=148131987Yeah, but then you go and do something like
this. By the way, in AfD discussions the only "Delete" counts as "Delete". Anyway, if you want to keep battling, then there's little point in dialog. If you change your mind (and ways), let me know. [[User:Jayjg|Jayjg ]]<sup><small><font color="DarkGreen">[[User_talk:Jayjg|(talk)]]</font></small></sup> 05:52, 31 July 2007 (UTC
Here's the weird thing. The first comment seems completely apropos of nothing since the history doens't show Jay's posted any corporate website link on Lothar's page. His "something like what" question is worded as a direct response to "Yeah, but then you go and do something like this" but if you look at the times the answer is actually posted several minutes before the question!
My guess is that Jay originally posted his 5:52 comment several minutes earlier. He tried to copy and paste a diff but the copy didn't hold and he accidentally posted the url for "some corporate website". Lothar asks Jay what the corporate website has to do with anything and Jay OVERSIGHTS his earlier comment and then reposts it with the correct url in place.
Pasting the wrong URL is a common mistake but why not just re-edit your post or make a new post saying "oops, pasted in the wrong url, I really meant this one"? You use oversight for one of three reasons according to WP:OVERSIGHT:
1 Removal of nonpublic personal information such as phone numbers, home addresses, workplaces or identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have not made their identity public.
2 Removal of potentially libellous information either: a) on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel or B) when the subject has specifically asked for the information to be expunged from the history, the case is clear, and there is no editorial reason to keep the revision.
3 Removal of copyright infringement on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel.
We know what he oversighted was a link to a corporate website so 2 and 3 are out. He must have oversighted it because he feared that the link could give away personal information about himself.
My guess is that Jay was multitasking and was doing job-related work at the same time as he was editing wikipedia. Instead of pasting a wikipedia diff he accidentally pastes a url to his employer or some company he does business with. When he's informed of his mistake he panics, oversights his old post and substitutes a new one and then blanks his own talk page without comment.
How can we find out what the oversighted edit is? Can we get a dump? Lothar used the link, can someone contact him and ask him what it was?