Talk:American Men and Women of Science

Low quality

I have recently looked at some entries in the 2005 edition and I am dismayed at the low quality. They are simply abbreviated CV excerpts, with no full sentences. Here are two random examples, I believe nothing here raise to the threshold of originality that would make them copyrightable:

RAJOWSKI, KATHLEEN, MICROBIOLOGY. Professional Experience: RES MICROBIOLOGIST, FOOD SAFETY TECHNOL RES UNIT, AGR RES SERV, USDA, as of 2003. Mailing Address: ERRC-USDA, FSIT, 600 E Mermaid Lane, Wyndham, PA 19038-8598. Fax: 215-233-6406. E-Mail: krajkowski@errc.ars.usda.gov

RAJSUMAN, ROCHIT, COMPUTER ENGINEERING. Personal Data: b Meerut City, India, March 13, 1964. Education: KN Inst Technol, India, BTech, 1984; Univ Okla, MS, 1985; Colo State Univ, PhD(elec eng), 1988. Professional Experience: Gen chair, Int Workshop Memory Testing, Inst Elec & Electronics Engrs, 1993 & 1994; ASST PROF ELEC ENG, CASE WESTERN RES UNIV, 1991-; ASST PROF COMPUTER ENG & SCI, CASE WESTERN RES UNIV, 1988-; Grad teaching asst elec eng, Colo State Univ, 1986- 1988. Memberships: Inst Elec & Electronics Engrs Computer Soc Circuits & Syst Soc; Asn Computer Mach. Research Statement & Publications: Digital hardware testing; design for testability; vlsi design; design automation; fault tolerant design; fault modeling; computer architecture; computer networks; published 2 books and more than 50 technical articles. Mailing Address: Dept Elec & Comput Sci, Case Western Res Univ, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. E-Mail: rajsuman@alpha.ces.cwru.edu

Those entries are likely submitted by the individuals themselves, and there is no evidence of any peer review or editorial oversight, since there's no evidence anyone verifies anything outside copy paste. I can conclude that this source might be seen as reliable for basic facts, but it should not be sufficient to judge that any scholar meets WP:NPROF criteria 1 & 2. I'll note in particular the inclusion of the first person (Rajowski). She became a "research microbiologist" in 2003 and already made it to the 2005 edition, and a complimentary GScholar search suggests zero published work... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:01, 17 December 2020 (UTC)