User talk:Leon E Panetta

Blocked as your account name is that of a well known person

Your account name and the former contents of your user page ( [1] ) are an obvious attempt to impersonate Leon Panetta, the current CIA director and otherwise well known for prior service in the Clinton Administration and so forth. Wikipedia policy (WP:USERNAME) prohibits the use of accounts with well known persons' names other than those persons themselves, and with confirmation that they themselves are setting up and using the account.

I find it somewhat unlikely that this is actually Director Panetta. However, if that is you, you can contact the Wikimedia Foundation at the email address info-en@wikimedia.org and provide some form of bona-fides to identify yourself, which can then be used to unblock your account here.

If you are not Director Panetta, you may not continue using this account name. It would be easiest if you just create a new account. If you insist, we can rename the existing account to a non-policy-violating name and unblock it.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 09:35, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Leon E Panetta, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
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