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The long-ish name is out of step with other fraternity articles. I'd suggest "Sigma Phi Sigma (professional)" instead, with hatlinks for the two that share the same name. These would be:
{{About|the professional funeral service practitioners fraternity|the dormant national fraternity with a similar name|Sigma Phi Sigma}}
{{About|the dormant national fraternity|the the professional funeral service practitioners fraternity with a similar name|Sigma Phi Sigma (professional)}}
At some points we should make sure that the existing social fraternity would be viewed as primary, but that doesn't need to happen until after this gets to mainspace.Naraht (talk) 21:34, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The next time I am at my laptop, I will move it to mainspace. And I have found a few more sources for chapter locations and approximate chartering. Naraht (talk) 23:18, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a preliminary infobox and these hatnotes, in anticipation of promotion to mainspace and the adjustment of the professional fraternity's name. Jax MN (talk) 00:06, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Collaboration! Nice catch. I used it; you can see the resulting image, cropped, and significantly adjusted from that original photo, and now on the page. I'm not yet comfortable adding color swatches without a corroborating source. Some chapters show use of purple and white, and often use black, but this may be simply riffing on the theme of death. Jax MN (talk) 22:07, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
