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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Michael Hardy (talk | contribs) at 02:52, 27 July 2009 (moved Talk:Jacob Cohen (born 1923) to Talk:Jacob Cohen (statistician)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The researcher Jacob Cohen was important in the field of educational measurement. It is confusing to type his name and be automatically redirected to the page of Rodney Dangerfield. Besides, if someone is looking for Rodney Dangerfield, won't they type "Rodney Dangerfield"? Carinamc (talk) 04:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating this page! Carinamc (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.93.123.112 (talk) 16:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page name

I guess there's no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC here so we need a qualifier in parentheses, but "Jacob Cohen (born 1923)" runs contrary to WP:QUALIFIER: "Years of birth and death should not be used in a page title to distinguish between people of the same name". This also advises, "..try to limit to a single, recognisable and highly applicable word regarding the person at hand". But what should that word be?

  • psychologist? (perhaps most obvious but might confuse those who know him only from his statistical work such as Cohen's d).
  • quantitative psychologist? (too long!)
  • scientist? (perhaps a bit vague, and neither psychology nor statistics are archetypal sciences)
  • academic? (even vaguer)
  • something else?

I'm wavering between "Jacob Cohen (psychologist)" and "Jacob Cohen (scientist)", so I'd like to hear what others think. -- Qwfp (talk) 09:27, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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