Talk:Applied science technology and engineering technology in Canada
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- Applied Science Technology and Engineering Technology in Canada → Applied science technology and engineering technology in Canada
- Template:Applied Science Technology and Engineering Technology in Canada → Template:Applied science technology and engineering technology in Canada
- Certified Engineering Technician → Certified engineering technician
- Certified Engineering Technologist → Certified engineering technologist
- Applied Science Technician → Applied science technician
- Applied Science Technologist → Applied science technologist
- Registered Engineering Technologist → Registered engineering technologist
- Licensed Engineering Technologist → Licensed engineering technologist
- Professional Technologist → Professional technologist
- IntET(Canada) → International engineering technologist
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Template:Applied Science Technology and Engineering Technology in Canada. Most of these are like Registered nurse or Engineering technologist or Aircraft maintenance engineer (see Talk:Aircraft maintenance engineer/Archive 2#Requested move 26 August 2022) or Aircraft maintenance technician (see Talk:Aircraft maintenance technician#Requested move). — BarrelProof (talk) 06:43, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
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- Comment – Some of these are not really notable, and are stub-like articles that should be folded into other; e.g. Licensed Engineering Technologist, while some others should be lowercase (Certified engineering technologist); I haven't looked at all of them yet, so don't have a more definite proposal. Dicklyon (talk) 22:17, 6 May 2023 (UTC)]
- Comment - These are not job titles, but certifications similar to Medical Doctor (MD), Certified General Accountant (CGA - Canada). In the context of describing the certification and what it is, I agree with @MOS:CAPS. I should disclose that I am a former AScT, current CET, and applicant PEng. Jarod (talk) 12:15, 9 May 2023 (UTC)]
- Is there anything in the WP:AT policy that suggests using italics (and capital letters) for articles about certifications? As far as I know, we only use italics for the titles of substantial published works, like the titles of books and films (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works#Italics). (Also, far as I can tell, nobody said these are job titles; that's just the name of the shortcut.) — BarrelProof (talk) 09:36, 12 May 2023 (UTC)]
- Now I think I understand the italics comments, based on a comment made by Dicklyon at MOS:WORDSASWORDS) when talking about the name of a certification as a phrase. I don't think I have seen articles titled that way on Wikipedia. — BarrelProof (talk) 06:48, 15 May 2023 (UTC)]
- Now I think I understand the italics comments, based on a comment made by Dicklyon at
- Is there anything in the
- Support. These are not proper names. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:25, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Support these are all common words, should be sentence case. --Jayron32 14:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)