Talk:International Council for Science

Merger with ISSC to form ISC

The International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council have fully merged to become the International Science Council as of July 2018. (From ISSC website worldsocialscience.org and ISC website council.science) Edits to both pages, a merge, or a new page should be made to accommodate this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.254.232.223 (talk) 07:28, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Name

As far as I know, the name of this organization should be "International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)" OR "International Council for Science", but not "International Council of Science".
A search on google return 648 results for "Internaitonal Council of Science", 5640 results for "International Council for Science, and 10200 results for "International Council of Scientific Unions". --Lorenzarius

"In 1998, Members agreed that the Council’s current composition and activities would be better reflected by modifying the name from the International Council of Scientific Unions to the International Council for Science, while its rich history and strong identity would be well served by retaining the existing acronym, ICSU." About ICSU: A Brief History, updated on 8/03/2010. --Paulscrawl (talk) 20:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Pluto a planet or just anouther celestrial body?

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A definition of a planet, Pluto does orbit the sun and has moons but shares the space with another so by show of hands voted the 9th planet out. Put Mercury in Pluto's position and it to would fail to clear the space of objects around it and does not have a moon so science may as well kick Mercury out as well. There are more bodies some larger and close to the size of Pluto that also have moons and orbit the sun but have the same problem as Pluto, stuck in a asteroid field. What about large bodies orbiting smaller bodies? The definition of a planet or should I say scientific argument is just a coin toss. Pluto is more of a planet than Mercury. Mercury has the fortune of a close orbit to the sun and its gravity to clear the path for it. Put your coins away and rethink the definition so that it is clear and excepted by all.

This discussion does not belong here, please to to the Pluto talk page or the Planet talk page to discuss this issue. 76.66.197.30 (talk) 14:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

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History

Unless there is meant to be a separate article on the predecessor (the International Research Council or IRC, briefly mentioned in the article) that morphed into the ICSU, the section on "history" requires an expansion to cover its early years from 1919/1922, too. This would make sense as several of the members are said to have joined in 1922, which makes no sense if the article indeed restricts itself to the pretence that the organisation came into existence in 1931. Of course covering the early years would necessitate revising the lofty statement on "Mission and principles" to "Facilitate interaction amongst scientists across all disciplines and from all countries", as the IRC was set up with the explicit provision (on France's insistence) of excluding academies and scientists from Germany and Austria, with structures carefully shoehorned to ensure this provision could not be revised for 12 years (i.e. until 1931, the "formation year" given for the ICSU in the article) and giving the colonial powers (France, Britain) majority voting rights by virtue of calculating their colonial subjects (who were otherwise deprived of basic political rights) as part of the total national population. For starters, sections of the German version of the article might be translated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.95.144.134 (talk) 07:23, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata list

Members of the International Council for Science in Wikidata: < https://w.wiki/5q8f >. -- Oa01 (talk) 13:09, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

full name of INASP

Is this supposed to be "International Network for Advancing Science and Policy" or is it "International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications"?

Wikidata entry Q6052170 shows both of them. These are supposedly old and new names for the same organization that is a member of some international umbrella organization that's also known by multiple similar names which change over time.

On enwiki, the article is named INASP. Just to avoid any attempt to disambiguate them, I've omitted the display of "INASP" as a link.

If you click on the website link shown for the organization, it appears to completely avoid any name for itself other than the acronym. IMO, this is the counter-example of how to have effective organizational communication. As for the links on the non-English wikis, I haven't bothered to check them out. Fabrickator (talk) 21:03, 6 August 2024 (UTC)