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Talk:List of engineering societies

There is a disagreement about recent edits to the United Kingdom section of this list.

I updated the UK entries using the Engineering Council’s published lists of licensed Professional Engineering Institutions and affiliated bodies. These edits were intended to correct outdated information and ensure the list reflects the current recognised organisations.

Some of these institutions do not yet have their own Wikipedia articles. In a follow-up edit I deliberately avoided creating red links while still including the organisations.

These edits were reverted by User:Randykitty, who noted that lists like this attract spam and stated that entries should only be included if they already have a Wikipedia article (citing WP:WTAF).

I raised the issue on this talk page and on the editor’s talk page but the underlying disagreement remains.

For clarity, this RFC is not about whether every listed body is automatically entitled to a standalone Wikipedia article. It is about whether this list should accurately reflect verifiable engineering institutions, including where some entries are currently unlinked.

The Engineering Council is the statutory regulatory body for the UK engineering profession and publishes the authoritative list of licensed Professional Engineering Institutions and affiliate bodies. This makes it quite unique compared to other list pages as for the UK at least there is a definitive list.

As context: I am relatively new to editing Wikipedia, but I am a Fellow of multiple UK engineering institutions andtherefore familiar with how these organisations are recognised and regulated in the UK. I am also working to create orimprove Wikipedia coverage of some of these institutions.

The questions for community input are:

1. Should the Engineering Council’s published lists be used as the primary source for identifying UK engineering institutions for this article?
2. Should verifiable institutions be included in this list even if they do not yet have a Wikipedia article?
3. Alternatively, should this list only include organisations that already have their own Wikipedia articles and the premise of the page adjusted to only include notable engineering organisations instead?

The aim is to ensure the article remains accurate and verifiable while also maintaining appropriate quality control forlist entries.

Tkerby (talk) 16:19, 6 March 2026 (UTC)