User talk:ICANN Representative

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Username concerns
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: it implies official standing as a representative of a company and suggests your edits may suffer from a conflict of interest as a result. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

—C.Fred (talk) 03:08, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Article troubles (reply to question on User talk:Ckatz)
Hi, you indicated you were having some sort of trouble about an article of yours being deleted? I would be happy to look in to that for you but we will need some more information (namely the title of the article). Perhaps when Ckatz is available he or she will be able to help more. However, the most likely reason that it was deleted was that it did not meet out inclusion criteria, but without the title of the article, I can not give you an exact reason. Prodego talk  03:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly; please let us know exactly which article you are referring to. I'd be most interested to know about an article on Wikipedia that has attracted the attention of ICANN... --Ckatz chat spy  03:40, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Blocked
This account has been blocked, because it has not been verified that this account belongs to an ICANN employee (see our username policy). Additionally, it is unclear as to whether this is an appropriate account name, as role accounts are not permitted on Wikipedia.

To discuss this block, please contact me by email. &mdash; Werdna  &bull;  talk  03:17, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

The user responded as follows by email: Hi Werdna,

Sorry for the confusion, I am a student who was doing a study for a class project regarding internet reliability. The idea that my group had was to go to a popular internet trust based site and pose as someone we really were not. We then assessed which sites were the most effective in finding faulty users and blocking them. To let you know your site wikipedia was the gickest and most accurate in finding flauded users. We hope We did not worry you too much. Now that we have seen your organizations ability to actively and accurately stamp-out faulty users on the web, we would have no further intention of using the account. Please feel free to delete it or whatever you may want to do with the account. Sorry for any concerns, Keep up the good work.

Thank you Max Runner

I'd make some comments about not disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, but I think we can just ignore it and get on with our lives. &mdash; Werdna  &bull;  talk  11:52, 29 November 2008 (UTC)