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Hi, I noticed you recently renamed Alison Phipps (sociologist and feminist). I was wondering if Alison Phipps (sociologist) would be better as per WP:CONCISE and WP:NCPDAB? -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:40, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a Wikipedia expert, so happy to concur. I put the double description in as they are both broadly in the British social sciences, and thought "sociologist" on its own isn't so immediately obvious as a distinguisher; also, the sociologist Phipps seems to be most associated in public discourse with her feminist perspective on the transgender debate. But as the "About" header now makes the distinction clear, concision can win the day, I guess. :-) Northtowner (talk) 23:15, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

On second thoughts, can I change it to "(gender studies)", or does the distinguisher have to be the person rather than a characterisic? Northtowner (talk) 23:33, 22 March 2022 (UTC)