Talk:ISO (disambiguation)

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Wikidemon in topic Move page

Disambiguation message needed?

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True or false: this article needs a dis-ambiguation message at the bottom. 66.245.13.233 22:56, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Order of Sections

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It is very confusing to have the first section as "other languages" as there is nothing presented so far. Imho the standards organsiation or prefix should be first, with the other languages following the prefix wherever that happens to be. Thryduulf 21:35, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The order should be, IMHO:
  1. Prefix / Greek
  2. Organisation
  3. Standard
  4. Something defined in standards
  5. Cartography (much less common than standards usages)
  6. TLAs
  7. Auto
  8. Record Label
  9. i.s.o.
  10. i.s.o. (related comic)
  11. (possibly remove) Japanese, Finnish
  12. Airport
--AlanH 20:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Foreign Words (excluding Greek root) – Remove

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Why are the Japanese and Finnish words here? Are they commonly seen, enough to merit an entry in the 'English' Wikipedia? Should I add a section to our article on pie noting that it is also a Spanish word meaning "food"? --AlanH 20:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
PIE means foot in Spanish; obviously a mis-type in the previous entry. Raymondwinn (talk) 17:16, 30 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

ISO standards

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I've removed the spelling Iso in reference to the International Organization for Standardization, simply because ISO's house style dictates that the name of the organization is always written in all uppercase letters. From my observations over the past two decades, this convention is very widely followed in practice. I therefore do not think that Wikipedia should include a misspelling. -- Markus Kuhn 11:49, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for noting the ISO standard for ISO! ;-) Oh, the irony! --AlanH 20:27, 15 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Since the term ISO is used both to refer to the standards body as well as to individual standards, some very brief introductory information about the organization seems useful and appropriate to me, even on the disambiguation page. -- Markus Kuhn 11:49, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This is just a disambiguation page

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It seems overkill to add detailed information on "ISO" film speeds here, when there are dedicated articles on that subject (film speed, ISO 5800). Please make sure that there is only one single short bullet item for each ISO standard that is in colloquial language referred to as "ISO", which then refers to the article about that standard. In other words, only one bullet item for ISO 5800 film speeds! Markus Kuhn 12:59, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is ISO an acronym or not?

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At first we're told that ISO is the alternative name for the International Organization for Standardisation, not an acronym for it because it derives from a Greek word isos. But later we're told it is an acronym (IOS>ISO). I'm confused. What's the truth? Not even Wikipedia can have it both ways. JackofOz 14:33, 23 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

I agree with JackofOz, is ISO an acronym or not???????????????EjidoMike 20:09, 24 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
It is not an acronym as the article has AFAIK always made clear. ISO does not correspond to the initial letters of organisation name in any language. —Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 20:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Lower case title

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As this article features mostly acronyms, should the title be "ISO" (caps) instead of "Iso" (lowcase)? Deryck C. 07:06, 21 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Agreed --AlanH 20:19, 15 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
All-Caps! (ISO) Valley2city 04:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

rv 14 June 2006 cleanup

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The "cleanup" on 14 June 2006 has eliminated a lot of very useful information and has rendered the page much less useful. In particular, it dispersed the various terms related to ISO standards in an incoherent way. I propose to undo this failed cleanup attempt and revert to a version before 14 June. Markus Kuhn 10:39, 30 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Instead of reverting, why not just rewrite an ISO standards section? It would probably be the same amount of work, due to subsequent edits to the page. There's a reason the page was cleaned up in the first place. --Usgnus 14:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC) (edit --Usgnus 14:52, 30 June 2006 (UTC))Reply

Confusing?

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Why is this tagged with {{confusing}}? It's a disambig page, shouldn't really be expounding on anything. Isopropyl 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

It may not be the right tag. I was trying to say that it is difficult to find the page you are from the list unlike other disambiguation pages. Maybe if it was re-ordered it would help. I will try to look at this.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 01:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

international science ilympiads

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I putted them on he list. --201.235.222.9 19:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Iso or ISO?

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As the section above points out, since there are mostly acronyms listed here, why is the title Iso instead of ISO? --zenohockey 05:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move. -- tariqabjotu 20:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

IsoISO (disambiguation) — 90% of these are acronyms —Ewlyahoocom 20:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Survey

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Discussion

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Any additional comments:

It appears to me that Iso (record label) is the only Iso (as opposed to ISO) listed. Should it be moved from here to Iso? --zenohockey 06:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC) ["from" added --zenohockey 02:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)]Reply

I've added Iso Rivolta, so I think a disambiguation page for Iso is in order. --Jaknudsen 15:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
That's a great find, but we can still include that on one master disambiguation page. It's pretty common that variant capitalizations, punctuations, and even slight spelling variations are all lumped together on a single page so that we can help direct everyone to the article that they are looking for. It seems pretty likely that people would type "iso" or "ISO" or perhaps even "Iso" when they're looking for the standards organization, stock options, or the various other uses. See, for example, the disambiguation page McMillan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikidemo (talkcontribs) 20:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
I wholly agree, I was argumenting against zenohockey's proposal to delimit the disambiguation page to the ISO acronym only. Jaknudsen 11:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move page

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I suggest moving this page and it's contents into the page called " ISO".

76.226.140.227 (talk) 18:41, 2 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

I would agree, but the editors over there on that page strongly object. I'm assuming it's because they live in a world of large organizations and technical standards where they regularly encounter the abbreviation, as opposed to the rest of humanity that has never heard of it and could use a disambiguation. - Wikidemon (talk) 01:09, 3 January 2013 (UTC)Reply