Drmies and Jess Wade

[ChaosMeRee]

Jess Wade's latest creation is her usual fare....

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1184735477

It is barely more than a copy paste of the ubiquitous staff/speaker/recipient bio blurb, mercifully at least not containing any statements lacking a given source this time (but Wade being Wade, that of course didn't mean everything is actually sourced, despite the whole thing running to barely three paragraphs and a six line list)

I will dissect it below, but before reading that, have a perusal of Drmies' edit history, where you will quickly get a very good idea of what Drmies expects to see in an article, his sourcing and editorial requirements, and how he talks to or about those who fail to meet his standards (which to be fair, the condescension/abuse/bullying aside, are usually in keeping with policy/guidelines or common practice, which is what is expected of an Administrator, but are often applied in let's just say very creative ways to suit his personal tastes, which is not).

Then I want you to ask yourself what might happen if he ever found the courage to treat Jess Wade the way he treats everyone else (especially if he had uppermost in his mind that she has absolutely no excuses for being this incapable of meeting his standards).

Christopher A. Alabi is an American chemist and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University.

* Bizarre use of capitalisation
* Redundancy/verbosity (chemist/Chemistry)
* No source for nationality

His research considers the design of sustainable materials and biomolecular therapeutics.

* No wiki-links
* Use of jargon when sources show there is probably both a more precise and yet less technical form of words to summarise their interests ( "outstanding contributions to the field of polymer science, drug discovery and drug delivery." ) from [10]

He was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2023.

* So what? The Wikipedia article for the AIMBE says it represents 50,000 engineers, so why is this statement significant? Looking further down the article (that she wrote!) to the Awards and Honours section, we realise Wade has inexplicably omitted the word Fellow after "elected". If that was there, people would instantly understand why this biography exists on Wikipedia. There are only a few thousand Fellows and it is only for "individuals who have made significant contributions to the medical and biological engineering (MBE) community in academia, industry, government, and education that have transformed the world." Admittedly they would say that, but like most of Wade's work, all you can go on is primary sources. In the warped world of Wikipedia, academics are deemed notab!e as soon as they become "a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor." As a mere Associate Professor alone, Alabi would still be a nobody to those (such as Jess Wade) who think being on Wikipedia makes you a somebody.

Alabi studied chemistry at New York University, where he completed undergraduate research project with David Schuster

* Missing word
* Misleading (according to the given source, Shuster was their supervisor)

He earned a joint Bachelor's degree in chemistry and chemical engineering at NYU and the Stevens Institute of Technology

* Possible original research - no source given for the claim this is a joint degree, while the given source says "B.S. in Chemistry from NYU and B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology".

He later said that much of his success in academia came from his strong friendships and network at NYU.

* Bizarre attempted promotion of NYU despite the given source lacking any reason to think NYU actually did anything to facilitate and foster these friendships that other universities lack
* Not even an accurate reflection of the source ("network" is being given a meaning by Wade that is distinct from freindship/camaraderie, which is not present in the source)

He moved to the California Institute of Technology for his doctoral research, where he worked alongside Mark E. Davis. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Robert S. Langer.

* Bizarre editorial choice to name only one of the people the source names as a presumably notable partner in his MIT work.
* Placement. Why is some if not all of this included under "Research and career" rather than "Early life and education"?

In 2013 Alabi joined the faculty at Cornell University.

* Lack of precision or talent for writing for Wikipedia. Wade has clearly assumed that readers will recall the given introduction and combine it with this later statement to append in their head " as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering". Luckily for Wade this is what the source goes on to say. But of course, one hopes the introduction will change as Alabi's career progresses. It is a bizarre oversight since we already know a big reason Wade writes these biographies is the hope it will progress their careers through greater visisbility/recognition.

His group make use of synthetic and analytical probes to understand and engineer macromolecular therapeutics. He creates sequence-defined macromolecules for stimuli-response and identifies optimised drug delivery bioconjugates.

* Jargon overload, clearly not written for Wikipedia's target audience
* Quite literally not a single wiki-link in sight

PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Award
2016 Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award
2018 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award
2018 Polymer Science and Engineering Young Investigator Award
2022 Cornell University College Teaching Award
2023 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

* A seemingly random selection of phrases with the word Award in them (doesn't even match the selection criteria used by sources, such as [1], which includes a not mentioned NSF CAREER Award.
* Only one wikilink
* Possibly simple promotion / C.V. writing (two awards are from his employer, others are sourced only to his employer)

Select publications

* Selected how? The titles are no help, not seemingly matching anything in the article text. They aren't even listed in date order. Alabi isn't the lead author in any of them, and is (presumably) relegated to "et al" in one of them.

References

* Publishers not named / named only as urls
* Only 3 of the 10 references are not their current employer Cornell or their "independent" student newspaper
** One is a simple bio on the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (presumably because the subject is a member?)
** Another is a simple bio on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute website for a webinar by the subject
** The third is an awards page on the American Chemical Society website which simply mentions his name as a recipient