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Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, your account has been blocked; you are welcome to create a new account with a username that represents only you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}. Thank you.

--Orange Mike | Talk 00:15, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Orangemike,

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Schock.cc (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I'm a little confused, my name is Sasha Costanza-Chock and my username is the username that I use across most of my accounts across the web - some version of "schock," in this case with .cc (my last name is Costanza-Chock). schock.cc is also the URL of my personal webpage, so perhaps that's the confusion? But it's just my handle. Like if you bought the webpage 'orangmi.ke' or something. I read the policy you point to but since there's no group or organization that I'm trying to 'represent,' and the website that I also happened to register under my handle is just my own CV and links to some projects I work on, I'm honestly confused about how my name 'schock.cc' violates it. Specifically, the username policy states "Plain domain names (without .com, .co.kr, etc) are sometimes acceptable, such as when the purpose of the domain is simply to identify you as a person." That's the purpose of schock.cc - it's just my personal domain. So, can you please either explain in more detail or unblock? Thank you. :)

Decline reason:

After two months still no response to blocking admin's message below. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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I'd be less hesitant about this if your article Transmedia activism hadn't included a gigantic ego-stroking block quote from your own doctoral thesis, which could lead us to suspect that you're here to promote yourself as a (in your words from the above article) "Media studies scholar". Schock alone, as opposed to schock.cc (a website which hosts your CV and publicity about your projects), couldn't be seen as a problematic username. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Transmedia Activism for deletion

A discussion has begun about whether the article Transmedia Activism, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transmedia Activism until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. -- Rrburke (talk) 00:29, 16 November 2010 (UTC)