Alright. I'm going to post how I feel about the character of Edgar Dawnguard and only his character. Not his OOC. OOC does not equal to IC, therefore the OOC should not be encouraged to have influence on IC. THEN, that would be consider metagaming, powergaming, or even metagrudge and the head application can be taken away easily once again. Though, this is not why HunterRS's whitelist was stripped for. The OOC concerns should not be, from my point of view, a factor in deciding the application. This is a whitelist application to decide if the player is willingly to hold up his roleplay standards high enough to meet the expectations. Did he do it? I'd say so myself, yes. The banning admin, Loow, should have his word to see and analyze if HunterRS had improved overtime.
Edgar Dawnguard has earned many respects and recognition by his fellow co-workers as a scientist and as an Interim (or just) Research Director. Edgar Dawnguard as we all know to be an only Research Director, not becoming from Scientist to a Head of Security. That's for a different character. Edgar Dawnguard had not, for a while, been eaten by a slime. He's been working in Research and Development for too long to make a big mishap as a scientist. I do indeed promote Edgar Dawnguard to Interim Research Director once a while for Edgar to hone his skills as Captain Vincent LeChiffre.
+1
EDIT: Miscommunication is a common mistake among everyone and shouldn't be taken to punished severely.