Talk:United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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Merge suggested

Support: This article should be merged with the main United States House Committee on Science and Technology article. This committee is one of the progenitors committees of the Science and Technology committee, and much of what is inluced in this article is duplicated in the main Science and Technology article. This information belongs in the main article to provide historical context, and since it is the predecessor to an existing standing committee and not a completely defunt committee, it probably doesn't need its own article. Dcmacnut 05:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
However (Neutral position taken): Aren't most defunct standing committees are progenitors?—Markles 11:54, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge It's not like the Committee on Franking moving to CHA; this is more a renaming, much like the Committee on Government Reform became the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. It is all the same Committee history. --Daysleeper47 13:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good enought distinction, I suppose. Can we set up, somewhere, a statement of this distinction so other people can find it? How about at the Project page (not it's talk page, but the project page itself)? —Markles 15:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can offer to put together some sort of criteria on defunct committees. My general sense is two standards that we can apply to whether a committee gets its own article or is just a redirect.

Renamed committees - Redirects only for minor committee name changes between congresses that do not affect major committee jurisdiction. These committees would be inlcuded on the "defunct list," but only to the extent that it helps people who are used to the older name. They would not be included in the defunct committee category.
True defunct committees - articles for these committees when appropriate. This covers historical committees that no longer exist as well as historical committees that have been merged into existing modern committees. The United States Senate Committee on Civil Service technically still exists as part of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, but has an extensive committee history of its own prior to the merge to justify a separate article. These would be categorized as Category:Defunct committees of the United States Congress. Any thoughts are appreciated. Dcmacnut 15:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That seems reasonable. How would you reccommend handling the current situation of the merging of the several previous science committees into the current? --Daysleeper47 15:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With respect to the immediate committees at hand, it should be simple enough to replace the articles with redirects to the United States House Committee on Science and Technology. The text is already included in the main article so there should be very little that needs to be merged. The same should be done with the United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics. The Committee on Science is already a redirect. If we agree, I can perform the changes.

For other committees, I think a case by case review would be needed to determine which need redirects and which can remain. Currently, the Science committee are the only articles that jump out at me as justifying redirects.Dcmacnut 17:54, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There was apparently consensus in favor of merging this article with United States House Committee on Science and Technology, so I have merged the two. There wasn't consensus on what to do with old committee names, and it doesn't appear that there was any definite proposal, so I turned this page into a redirect. Bry9000 (talk) 23:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]