Talk:Library and information science
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Proposal to re-split
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The separate Wikidata items for "library science" and "library and information science" suggest the articles should not be merged. It helps clarity to maintain ontological precision in separation of subjects in Wikipedia articles. The authoritative sources to which the Wikidata items trace further suggest the articles should not have been merged. In case of doubt, one of the two Wikipedia articles could provide a short scoping description and then direct the reader to the other article. --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:11, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
It's been 2 years since the articles were merged and I'm finally getting to come back to this. I now think Dan is right, the specific way in which the merge happened wasn't correct. Most of this article is specifically about library science, not "library and information science" as an interdisciplinary field in which postgraduate qualifications are taken.
After the merge I did a title swap, because this title had very old page history associated with it. I now see that was a mistake, sorry. The article should have been at the title "Library science" from the beginning, the swap had no benefit beyond nostalgia.
I propose that the small amount of content about the interdisciplinary field is extracted to a new article with this title, and this article renamed to "library science", linking out to the new article as appropriate. — Hex • talk 13:24, 19 June 2025 (UTC)