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Re Software Engineering Ethics in British Columbia: a) we do not make placeholder articles, b) we do not yet have an article on software engineering ethics. I suggest you write that article first and see if it sticks before you drill down into the much narrower subject and c) note the correct capitalisation (for Wikipedia standards) of software engineering ethics. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 13:53, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * As a response to a) the article is not a placeholder but is being used by a few people to start a topic. I created the page, but did not have time to add anything.  b) I agree that an article on Software engineering ethics is not currently available but since my group and I are currently located in BC and our experience is related to Software Engineering in BC we felt it was a better place to start than the larger umbrella topic.  The larger umbrella topic is quite debated and as Software Engineering as a profession is quite new, the debate as the what ethical views and how to codify them is still up in the air in many parts of the world.   c) this was my mistake and I can move the page to a correctly capatalized version, however as I am speaking of Software Engineering as practiced by professional Engineers, should it not be capatalized?  If not I am happy to change the page. - Novyd (talk) 02:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

"I created the page, but did not have time to add anything" - that is the definition of a placeholder! You may not have meant it but this edit was near-vandalism - to complete the job you should have moved the article itself, edited and moved the AfD discussion and edited the AfD log.

I repeat my advice in the AfD discussion: improve Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia which is awfully stubby and write software engineering ethics which does not need to mention BC at all. No moves needed, just for once, I authorise copy&paste! &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 07:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about the mentioned edit. I have decided to add to Software engineering professionalism under the ethics section and also look at improving Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. Novyd (talk) 00:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)