Email to Sean Black 

I did not want this text to be publicly known, since I still have to contact the professors, but in the current situation I see no choice but to put the draft text here. 

PM 1. I earlier emailed this draft to Rob Speer and Joe Hall for comment, and just sent it out to Sean Black. 
PM 2. I noticed that I am also blocked from the RfC page. I have not had much time to investigate what the intention of that page is, since I am writing my email to the professors, so I don't know whether that page or being blocked from it is important.
PM 3. It is not true that I only editted pages on myself.
PM 4. Who hold that contacting a professor would be the same as contacting an employer, neglect my earlier comment that I approach the issue from the angle of the integrity of science. The proper reaction is not to neglect it but give the argument why this angle would be improper. 
PM 5. On the RfC Joe Hall suggests that my objective would be to punish him or so. No, I only suggest that the professor and he discuss the situation from the angle of the integrity of science. Earlier I wrote that this would be very beneficial for him. 
PM 6. Joe mentioned that Hal Varian no longer is the dean at SIMS. Thus the draft needs at least one change.
PM 7. I told everyone that I wanted a time out. Why don't you respect that wish ? Didn't I read somewhere that a truce was also an option ? 

Dear Mr. Black,

I saw that, while I was composing my letter to the professors at MIT and SIMS, further action on wikipedia about me. There is an RfC which I am not familiar with and now you seem to have been blocking me whatever that is. 

Below you find the draft text of my letter to the professors. If you think that this is threatening and not befitting a scientific community, please reply.

A few hours ago I already sent this draft text to Rob Speer and Joe Hall. With an introductory text, that I no longer have, since wiki-mail has no cc. But they might forward the email sent to them.

I would appreciate it if you could explain the problem and what I can expect.

Please see also my recent edit of Arrow's impossibility theorenm.

My regards,

Thomas Colignatus

DRAFT

To the president of MIT
Professor Susan Hockfield
http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/
hockfield@mit.edu

To the dean of SIMS, University of California at Berkeley
Professor Hal Varian
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/
hal@sims.berkeley.edu

March 11, 2006

Dear professors Hockfield and Varian,
Dear Hal,

I have a problem on the integrity of science with two of your students, Rob Speer at MIT who started the problem, and Joseph Lorenzo Hall at SIMS who is interfering in an unhelpful way. The problem is summarized in the appendix.

Obviously, the integrity of science is a difficult subject even for academics so there must be a great deal of tolerance with students. With students, they certainly cannot be held accountable as scientists can, and they are only learning the trade. Yet, students e.g. know that one cannot cheat a test and that one must study a topic before one gives conclusions on it. When issues of integrity arise, it can be very educational for them to have the issue discussed. In this case, these two students would learn a lot about scientific conduct and scientific integrity.

In the present case, the issue is on the behaviour of these students on the internet, in particular wikipedia. It appears that communication with these students is greatly hindered by that environment, which does not allow the quality of deliberation provided by a personal chat with a person that they respect. My reason to contact you is to ask you to find a teacher or counselor at your school to have that chat.

It is to be considered whether the activity of those students within wikipedia is related to their life as students at your schools. My impression is that this relation exists. Firstly, they present themselves on their wikipedia pages as students of MIT and SIMS, thus partly referring to those institutions and their education there, implying their relation to you. Secondly, they are active in editing work, where they refer to learned books and where they use difficult words. Their behaviour thus cannot be strictly separated from their education and prospective position as scientists. This is most clearly so with Joseph Lorenzo Hall who is already a Ph.D. student who thus must write scientific papers for the journals. For Rob Speer, who started the problem, it can be observed that his education on computing science is relevant for the topic where the problem arose. 
In the end, it is with