Talk:ISO (disambiguation)

Disambiguation message needed?

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

True. Deryck C. 07:06, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Order of Sections

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:

Prefix / Greek
Organisation
Standard
Something defined in standards
Cartography (much less common than standards usages)
TLAs
Auto
Record Label
i.s.o.
i.s.o. (related comic)
(possibly remove) Japanese, Finnish
Airport

--AlanH 20:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Foreign Words (excluding Greek root) – Remove

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

Iso or ISO?

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

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]

Iso → ISO (disambiguation) — 90% of these are acronyms —Ewlyahoocom 20:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

Support All the entries except one are acronyms so I think this disambiguation page, currently at Iso should be moved to ISO (disambiguation). Iso will redirect to the disambiguation page. ISO will continue to redirect to International Organization for Standardization. Ewlyahoocom 20:45, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per above, and as a separate matter I'm also moving ISO to disambiguate to this page. This is an anomaly on Wikipedia as it is, where a commonly used acronym for different things (ISO) redirects to one of many uses, and the disambiguation page for the acronyms is in lower case. This makes it harder to find the appropriate articles. Wikidemo 21:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per reasons given Reginmund 21:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Either leave it where it is or move it to ISO. No reason to disambiguate the article name. Vegaswikian 22:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Nearly all are ISO, and the page is a disambiguation page. As Ewlyahoocom points out, the International Organization for Standardization is the most commonly used, important ISO, so it should get redirected from ISO (with, of course, a hatnote on that page.) --zenohockey 06:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I agree with the nom. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 23:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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 (talk • contribs) 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

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]