Talk:Engineering Technician

The term "Engineering technician" has much broader usage than the article covers. As one example, "Engineering Technician" is a job title in the Operating Engineers Local 3 contract with the Council of Engineering Laboratory Employers (and probably with other locals of OE). Argyriou 00:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. The current version of this article obviously doesn't have a world view and doesn't provide sufficiently broad information on the topic.  These might help if a rewrite is needed or someone can expand the article:
 * http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos112.htm
 * http://www.nicet.org/about/index.cfm
 * nicet
 * http://www.collegegrad.com/careers/proft05.shtml
 * --ndyguy 02:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Merger with Engineering Council UK article
At this point I have to disagree. An "Engineering Technician" is not solely a qualification offered by the Engineering Council UK. As shown in the links above it is also an occupation within the U.S., and I would suspect other parts of the world as well. If it is still felt that a merger is necessary please provide reasoning. --ndyguy 02:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The point of a merger is that the article as it currently stands is only about the ECUK certification, and not about the general occupation of engineering technician. It would be nice if there was an article about the job of engineering technician, but this article is not it, and this content belongs in the ECUK article, not as a separate article. Argyriou 21:01, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that the current article is only about ECUK certification. However, if you refer to the  merger guide, step 3 under "Performing the merger" entails changing the article to be merged into a redirection page.  This could cause problems (or at least confusion) if someone in the future did wish to create an article about the general occupation.  If the information currently presented in this article were moved to the ECUK article without making the Engineering Technician article a redirection page, then I see no problem with that, and that would probably be a wise choice.  If that was your intention to begin with, then I apologize and feel free to do so; if there is still any question or amibiguity then please post it here, otherwise I'm removing the disagreement tag.  ndyguy 22:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Merged
I've copied the content of this article bodily into Engineering Council UK, and turned it into a redirect to Engineering technician, a new article I started as a stub. Argyriou 01:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Unacknowledged Source
The main part, from 'Dublin Accord' onwards is a simple cut and paste from the Engineering Council UK web page, as shown by the end sentence. I do not think this meets the standards.Chemical Engineer 09:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)