Talk:John Tooby

Notability
This article could be improved to establish notability. The subject may be notable, but simply asserting that he is a "pioneer" and listing books does not make the case. For example, what independent sources indicate an impact? What awards/honors/major posts? See WP:PROF. Careful Cowboy (talk) 00:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It doesn't do Wikipedia's notability policy any credit that it encourages hyperskepticism about the notability of highly influential scientists, while routinely accepting articles on dozens of Pokemon characters. 271828182 (talk) 00:56, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Pokemon characters are not living persons, so the standards are different, set by different groups. If the pop-culture standards have been set by buffoons, that is hardly the responsibility of (and even less are the results binding upon) the biology of living persons group. Moreover, what is at work here is not scepticism, hyper or otherwise, but a requirement for third-party sources. Granted that Tooby is an important scholar, what is the basis for that judgement, that is not original research. Mrrhum (talk) 15:41, 6 March 2010 (UTC)