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Latest comment: 10 months ago by Martinevans123 in topic Purest hagiography

Radio Times

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It was shown on The One Show this week (yesterday?) that she appeared on the cover of the Radio Times when she won a Blue Peter painting competition. A Google search will bring up the dates if someone wants to add to the article. jmb (talk)

Professor or Doctor?

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Her recent docu Ice Age Giant credits her as "Professor Alice Roberts". Does anyone know if this is because she is a professor of anatomy now (which she was working towards in 2009) or if this is merely a sort of courtesy title because she is Professor of Public Engagement at Birmingham? If it is the former, the article needs to be updated.--Feuerrabe (talk) 09:42, 27 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

You don't 'work towards' being a professor.  Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.107.5 (talk) 12:30, 13 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I made a little search through every website I could think of, but found no reference to a further appointment. Actually, the series Ice Age Giants was first shown well over a year ago and so would have been made shortly after her appointment to the chair at Birmingham. Given that a chair (i.e. professorship) was created and Dr Roberts was appointed to it, it seems to me wholly appropriate to refer to her as "Prof. Roberts". LynwoodF (talk) 14:10, 27 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your quick answer! I am currently in the process of creating an article for Alice Roberts on de.wiki and wanted to clear this up. I could not find any indication that she had a new appointment either, but since I'm not all that familiar with academic practices in England, I thought one of you might know more. Thanks again! --Feuerrabe (talk) 14:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I am glad to be of help. I hope I have not missed anything. Best wishes for the successful completion of your article. LynwoodF (talk) 16:29, 27 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Rename page appropriately

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I suggest Dr since that appears to be her twitter handle, but I did not research this at all. I recall Dr as the attribution used in tv shows... and this one is unlikely to change, but if Prof. is more correct, this should be used instead. Emphatically, the titled full name ought to be the default page URL, and the old one at Alice_Roberts should redirect to there. If this is a technical challenge for the wikipedia code droids, ie dragging the edit history of the page to a new address, then it is one they should be attacking as a matter of priority. This matters an awful lot to people who work an entire lifetime to earn recognition, in some cases. Please do not respond to my query in any way except by actually doing this. I cannot rename the page, as wikipedia have reduced the edit privileges of unregistered users, and i am not going to be editing wikipedia any other way. Soz.  Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.18.13.17 (talk) 14:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Professors don't get the title "Prof" as part of their article name e.g. Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox (physicist), etc., etc. See MOS:DOCTOR. Sorry for having to respond in a way you did not demand. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

agree with the above. name should have Dr before it, also add post nominals, at least FRSB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Biology).  Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:312E:C400:102A:F3C9:EB1E:B624 (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

I've added the post-nominal to the first line of the article. Richard Nevell (talk) 19:22, 22 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
Have also added same to infobox. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:17, 22 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
No, it shouldn't. Unless you do it for every single scientist. Which would be silly.  Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.107.5 (talk) 09:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Controversy over her interpretation of the metaphysical worldviews

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  1. atheism is negatively defined by the non-god false precosmic personhood bearer
    correct
  2. only atheists are good humans, or everyone is but the nonsupernaturalists don't deserve a specific nonspiritualist name for their physicalist cohort - humanism is a perfect term, because either theists are bad humans, or all worldviews have good humans but physicalists don't deserve a specific cohort name
    she's wrong; we should use the term physicalists; those who accept the scientific study of the pre-Big-Bang state as part of physics  Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:8240:8C00:3440:8D8C:C22D:5A34 (talk) 21:00, 8 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
No, it isn't.  Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.107.5 (talk) 09:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Children

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In a radio programme from 2019 Alice Roberts said she was about to have another baby. So does she actually have three children? 78.148.110.195 (talk) 10:18, 27 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

I have been unable to find any support for a third child online, although the current source for her two children is from 2014. Which radio programme was that? Martinevans123 (talk) 18:05, 1 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Purest hagiography

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This is an ENCYCLOPAEDIA article??? Telling us that she likes pub quizzes??? SERIOUSLY??????????????????? What about her favourite pizza topping???? Those hobbies have no place in what purports to be a 'serious encyclopaedia'.  Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.107.5 (talk) 09:03, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Elk antler preserved in peat? But not ham and pineapple, it seems. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:53, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply