Dear Sirs, I am Ignazio Ciufolini (the Wikipedia staff verified my identity) and I am writing here because the page about my biography is being used for libelous statements. For some reason the page provides an unbalanced point of view, giving undue attention to controversies and lawsuits, while information concerning my research accomplishments has been removed.
In particular:
- the section of "Awards and Honours" has been removed without reason in 2014 (relevant international awards are a measure of the quality of research of a scientist and should always be included in a scientific bio). The other scientists included in Wikipedia have a complete list of their international prizes.
- Relevant information about my career and research have been removed, for example, but not only, the information about my Ph.D. dissertation, etc.
- Speculative information about controversies have been added.
- Someone added a misleading sentence about the lawsuits between me and Lorenzo Iorio.
About the lawsuits, the following statement does not represent the actual legal situation:
"He sued twice the italian physicist Lorenzo Iorio for defamation[17]. Iorio was acquitted of these charges in both trials [18][19]."
The above statement is misleading, suggesting that the accusation of defamation against Iorio were unfounded. Instead, the decrees of acquittal that are readable in the references (in Italian) state that some of the crimes were statute barred.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignazio_Ciufolini#cite_note-endoftrial-18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignazio_Ciufolini#cite_note-endofsecondtrial-19
So, Lorenzo Iorio was acquitted from some of the accusations only because the trials endured too long and the crimes were statute barred. Anyway, I do not see how this information is more relevant than academic achievements.
In my opinion the current biography is providing a strongly unbalanced point of view that aims at denigrating my carrier and accomplishments.
Therefore, I wish to ask you to remove the page about me on Wikipedia: it seems that the page is acting only as a magnet for editing wars that bring unwanted attention on the libelous attacks against me instead of on my academic works.
Prof. Ignazio Ciufolini
University of Salento and Centro Fermi (Rome, Italy)
Ignazio.Ciufolini (talk) 18:06, 10 February 2020 (UTC)