Andrew Peacock

This is the request of user Drew Peacock, Esquire (both that account and this account are me) to be unblocked:

Although I can expect some comments to arise from time to time, what I did not expect was to be blocked on the basis that my name was profane.

Wikipedia is a written medium. In written form, there is no profanity whatsoever, nor even youthful titillation to be had by reading my name. It is only when (1) my full name is (2) said out loud (3) in a deliberately abnormal manner by slurring my first name together with my last name, and (4) removing the normally existing emphasis on the second syllable of the slurred words, and (5) instead adding an emphasis on the last syllable of the slurred words (which syllable is not ordinarily emphasized), that it can be taken for a “droopy” male appendage.* *

I do expect a modest level of maturity among most, but by no means all, readers here. The most youthful readers won’t make the connection from my written name to a deliberately mispronounced spoken version of my name, as is necessary to reach the “profanity” that is of concern. Neither they, nor the next level of youths, are likely to be on the talk and history pages where my name might occur. At the level of maturity when a reader has become an editor, so as to have an interest in looking at the talk or history pages, I think it extremely unlikely that they would find my name profane. I mention this because, again, in the written form in which it is always presented here, there is nothing humorous, risqué, offensive, or "profane" about my name.

As just mentioned in regards to younger readers, my name will not ever appear on the article pages for any age reader to make the connection between my completely neutral written name and the abnormally slurred and pronounced aloud terms that are of concern. It is those pages that I would think it would be read (presumably still silently) by more youthful readers (and adults alike) consulting Wikipedia to gain some understanding of a topic covered in Wikipedia. And in those instances, there should not be any problem or offense taken, since my name will never appear to the readers (unlike some explicit images (example here) that do appear [1] in Wikipedia' article pages. My name will only appear on the discussion and history pages, where one might expect to find more mature readers/editors, who, again, would not be reading my name aloud in any event.

Many people have names that, unlike my own, do not require that they be read out loud with abnormal emphasis in order to provide some amusement to those amused by such things. The following 21 men in the world of professional sports have had their names on their uniforms, and their full names reported in all manner of magazine, newspapers, books, radio and television broadcasts, and on the internet, exactly as those names are written and pronounced, including: | Chubby Cox, Dick Trickle, Johnny Dickshot, Dick Butkus, Assol Slivets, Ron Tugnutt, Irina Slutskaya, Albert Pujols, Homer Bush, De’Cody Fagg, | Rusty Kuntz, Misty Hyman, Dean Windass, Dick Pole, Lucious Pusey, Harry Colon, Danny Shittu, Pete LaCock, B.J. Johnson, Gregor Fucka, and | Harry Dick.

There are, of course, others, like, former NSW minister | Dick Face, former congressman and former Ambassador to Denmark Dick Swett, mortician | Harry Assman, Attorney General | Mike Cox, Broadcaster Harry Boyle, Patsy Cline’s son [| Randy Dick] (“randy” is a crude synonym for the equally crude expression “horny” used in many parts of the English speaking world, though less so in the USA), former MEP | Ben Dover, and many more names that do not require the deliberate mispronunciation by slurring and changing the emphasis of the syllables as my name so requires to have someone think of another meaning.

B.J. Johnson, in addition to the sports star, is a | woman’s name. Different people named Darrin Dick are | a financial analyst, | a legal advisor, and | a behavior analyst, while Darrin Dicks is a | national beach soccer team member. | Hugh Jass was a contributor to Wikipedia for 4 years until he retired. Dick_Hyman was a jazz pianist/composer. Different people named Dick Johnson is/was a glider pilot, English footballer, racing driver, clarinetist, test pilot, and a reporter; while different people named Harry Johnson is/was a Olympic medalist, right-half footballer, economist, record producer, striker footballer, tennis player, left-back footballer, attorney and law professor, and wrestler. | Dick Armour helped in a political campaign in R.I., Beaver Dick is famous enough to have a | park named after him.

The name Mike Hunt at first appears to be somewhat similar to my situation in that the written name is not itself in any way titillating or risqué. Rather, someone must speak the name out loud and must slur the first name with the last name and change the syllables emphasized/de-emphasized so that Mike Hunt becomes “My (vulgar slang for vagina).” | Mike Hunt, who has a page on Wikipedia, was a player for the Green Bay Packers. However, Mike Hunt’s situation is distinguishable from mine. My name is virtually always read silently by visitors to Wikipedia’s talk or history pages (and never in the main article pages, where, incidentally, visitors can read about Mike Hunt), and in reading it silently, it does not appear vulgar or give cause for youths to giggle. Mike Hunt’s name, unlike my own, was broadcast over TV and radio. Additionally, although Mike Hunt went by “Mike Hunt” in his professional carrier, his legal name was Michael Hunt. My legal name is Drew Peacock. My first name is Drew. Drew is not a nickname for Andrew in my instance. I have no middle name or initial.

Aside from me, there are many Drew Peacocks, or Andrew Peacocks, in the English speaking world, including an | ACIS Corporate Services Manager, | adventure travel photographer, | Appalachian State Mountaineers football player, | Aviva Investors’ Head of Real Estate Business Development, | Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce Ex–Officio Board Member, | chemical scientist and editor, | Dacres Commercial Director, | Dalhousie University School of Business Administration professor, | designer and social media consultant, | educator and creator of an email course, | F.G. Library Products Area Sales Manager, | former National Guardsman or | his son, | International Property Fund Manager for Morley Fund Management, former Liberal Party Deputy Leader and former Ambassador to the USA, | Marcliff footballer, | Margaret Smith Research Fellow, | Melbourne University Outdoors Program Manager, | Operations Manager at Thistle Hotels, | physician and author, | QCA Systems Architect, | Russell and Shetal Peacock’s son, | scientist and author, | sea kayaker, | systems architect, | Tredegar Film Products Development Associate, | University of Western Australia’s peacock, | WesLB Corporate & Structured Finance Products Manager, solicitor (attorney), President of Boeing Australia, and MFS Limited Chairman.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my request.-- Drew Peacock ^{- my talk page -} 10:08, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

--notes--

* * We could spend some time discussing that when read out loud in the slurred and abnormally emphasized manner, it can be taken to be a saggy rooster (Gallus gallus), OR a languid male crab, OR a bent faucet/steam cock/drain valve on a steam engine cylinder/bibcock/sample cock/stopcock/petcock/ballcock/brake cock/part of a clock or watch used to support an outrigger bearing for a gear or lever/balance cock/fly cock/supporting arm of a clock pendulum/pallet arbor, OR a lethargic male lobster, OR the act of pulling back the hammer of a firearm while exhibiting a lack of strength or firmness, OR a wimpy high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton (aka droopy (shuttle)cock), OR a saggy version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) reporting name for the world's largest turboprop-powered aircraft (the Russian Antonov An-22), OR a weak/poorly mixed style of mixed drink (droopy cock(tail)), OR a lax application used in computer science (coq, pronounced “cock”), OR a limp woodcock, OR a sluggish person born within the sound of Bow Bell in London (the traditional definition of a cock/person who is a of Cockney birth), etc., but in the end it is the one I mentioned that brings us to this discussion.( Drew Peacock ^{- my talk page -} 10:08, 3 March 2010 (UTC))