Talk:Joan Roughgarden

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Relation to Tim Roughgarden?
I don't think it's worth mentioning in the article itself, but is Joan Roughgarden related to a current professor in Computer Science at Stanford University named Tim Roughgarden? 128.12.18.122 (talk) 06:16, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Top importance article
Joan sounds like a woman of great wit, courage and patience. Perhaps the clean-up tag is fair. I'd prefer to say Joan is notable on many counts and the article should do her more justice, including fair reporting of criticisms. I don't mean to suggest any bias, I mean only to suggest there is more information out there (even in the links already provided). Hopefully we'll get to work and expand this to be a fascinating article on a fascinating woman, and/or person. She will certainly stretch our use of pronouns. ;) Alastair Haines 09:18, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Delete
Living person, non-notable, non-public figure, her claims about sexual selection are debunked (thus are not notable contributions), her book about reconciling evolution with Catholicism is fringe at best, and this article reads more or less like a curriculum vitae and a source of publicity for her. --70.131.82.165 (talk) 04:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This suggestion does not seem appropriate. Roughgarden is a very well known scientist at a major university. Just check Google Scholar to see how often her papers are cited, to get a hold of her influence in science. About her Theory of Sexual Selection, the very fact that so many scientists reacted to it, makes it worthwhile aspect to report in Wikipedia.
 * That said, there is of course room for improving the article and in particular describing her contributions in more detail. Mashkin (talk) 09:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the nomination, 70. However, as Mashkin says, this person is notable under Wikipedia's established guidelines. Whilst the article needs clean-up, it would not be deleted by the AfD process (at least not for the reasons you have given) so I must decline the request to list it at this time. Contact me if you have other reasons or want more information. ➨ ❝ ЯEDVERS ❞ has nothing to declare except his jeans 14:19, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree with Mashkin and ❝ ЯEDVERS ❞ . While, yes, Roughgarden's more recent work on sexual selection is not widely accepted within the scientific community, she is well-known in ecological circles for some classic studies on rocky shore ecology.  Notability is pretty clear-cut here (though I do say that as a biologist).  Cheers, --P LUMBAGO  14:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * "Her book about reconciling evolution with Catholicism is fringe at best" - Isn't that called a bias? 98.198.83.12 (talk) 14:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

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Is this sentence really the best
She is best known for her rejection of sexual selection and her theistic evolutionism.

Her rejection of sexual selection doesn’t seem like a ideal sentence. This source states that Over the last 130 years, research has established that (a) sexual selection exists and is widespread in the plant and animal kingdoms So at this point denying sexual selection is like denying evolution. Her denial of sexual selection is just fringe.CycoMa (talk) 21:44, 26 June 2021 (UTC)