Talk:List of ISO standards

Separators for ISO standard titles

Having been adding to this list for a while now, I've noticed there seems to be a bit of inconsistency over how the actual titles for the ISO standards should be formatted in this page. Particularly, the formatting of the separators used in them varies a bit.

Some of the standard titles listed use en dashes as separators:

• ISO 2:1973 Textiles – Designation of the direction of twist in yarns and related products

Others however use em dashes instead:

• ISO 23:1993 Cinematography—Camera usage of 35 mm motion-picture film—Specifications

Many of the others of course use hyphens as separators, but this is wrong going by Wikipedia's Manual of style anyway, and they should probably all be switched to en/em dashes. Unfortunately, I made a lot of the standards I added use hyphen separators, before realising I was making a mistake there. Whoops!

More confusing still though is that ISO itself apparently uses spaced em dashes in its standards' titles (I think?). That or two consecutive hyphens (--), but I assume this is in place of either en or em dashes (depending on whichever is correct).

So then... what should the separators for ISO standards titles be? En dashes? Em dashes? Spaced em dashes? Otherwise? 82.9.105.98 (talk) 16:59, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

• My vote would be to keep the EXACT same number and type of dashes that ISO uses in their documents, that way we keep text searches to be exact match. Having said that, I am using whatever conventions already exist on the Wiki page. I agree this is confusing. DJH16W (talk) 21:21, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Page size

This page is 659,272 bytes long, which is far too big. What's the best way to subdivide it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:24, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Having received no replay, I've made a start on my own initiative. I'll do the rest, later Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:58, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh, good, it's about time this page was split into multiple lists! I've split the 20000–29999 standards now, subdivided into groups of 2000s. Not sure what to do with the rest yet though. --Monster Iestyn (talk) 20:57, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 8 January 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 03:56, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

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List of International Organization for Standardization standards → List of ISO standards

Rationale:

1. Consistency: List of EN standards, List of DIN standards, List of ISIRI standards, List of Ecma standards, etc. The acronym stands for the standardising organisation in each case.
2. Clarity and legibility: "International Organization for Standardization standards" is much less legible than ISO standards
3. The latter term is incomparably more searched for[1] and most probably in much wider use.

— kashmīrī ^TALK 19:50, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

• Support per WP:CONCISE. Rreagan007 (talk) 01:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Invariably known as the ISO. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:57, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.