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The article Introduction to Legal Sources in U.S. Intelligence Law has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Request reason:
Dear Administrators, I believe I may have been blocked by mistake, but I can see why the administrator might have thought at first glance that my user name was promotional. My user name is "IntelligenceLawyer" because I am an American law professor specializing in U.S. Intelligence Law. I think the administrator who applied the block might have seen that I am working on an entry for the non-profit creative-commons organization "IntelligenceLaw.com" and thought that my user name "IntelligenceLawyer" might be a promotion for that website. IntelligenceLaw.com and IntelligenceLawyer are similar but still very distinct names. I do admit that I am an unpaid editor and lecturer who donates free law school courses to that website, but other than that one starter article there are no other articles I plan to write about IntelligenceLaw.com for Wikipedia. Plus, I should mention that IntelligenceLaw.com is a 100% non-profit creative-commons website. There aren't even any adds to generate revenue. The site is a free creative commons project like Wikipedia in the truest sense. It is dedicated to providing free law school courses to Americans affected by domestic intelligence activities. I would really like to keep the name if possible because 95% of the other articles I plan to write or edit on Wikipedia are all still related to my primary area of expertise--U.S. intelligence law. I've noticed quite a few articles related to intelligence law topics that are badly in need of revision, and I would like to keep the name "IntelligenceLawyer" because it accurately reflects my genuine expertise in this field. I think it would give readers and administrators well deserved confidence in my edits, as any edits I might make would always be based on my many years of research, scholarship, and teaching intelligence law at the law-school level. Intelligence law is an area where confusion and misinformation abounds, and I would like to invest some of my spare time outside of the classroom to cleaning up errors and adding reliable references to existing intelligence articles on Wikipedia. I hope you will see your way clear to letting me keep the user name "IntelligenceLawyer." Thank you for taking the time to consider this request. I look forward to hearing back from you at your convenience. Best regards, IntelligenceLawyer
Decline reason:
I see that you have not edited since since July 2011. The unblock request did not appear in the list of pending unblock requests because of a typo until the typo was corrected a few hours ago, so nobody knew about your request. Since you have not given an email address, it is impossible to contact you. By now, most likely either you have long ago created another account, or else you will never come back. However, on the off chance that you do ever see this, and want an unblock, feel free to post another unblock request.The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for your thoughtful response to the block message. If you are unblocked under this username, the username will remain controversial, because it is at best borderline under our policies. To assist in making sure that your contributions are evaluated and accepted on their merits without any distraction, it would be better for you to use a different name. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:06, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
The page User:IntelligenceLawyer/IntelligenceLaw.com has been deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, as it was unambiguously promotional. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)