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I've never even heard of the International Organization for Standardization for today, and I was changing the redirect to a disambiguation link.--Vercalos 23:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Part of the reason why I redirected it to International Organization for Standardization is given by Special:Whatlinkshere/ISO: all of the 328 incoming links want to go there, as far as I can see (mostly because they are talking about ISO standards, which are set by the International Organization for Standardization). Of course all those links could be changed to point to International Organization for Standardization, but it seems most people want to link to that went they link to ISO. Similar to IOC, UN or EU, this seems to be the most important meaning, and so the people that search for it should not go through a disambiguation link. Kusma (討論) 03:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- International Organization for Standardization may be the most common usage for Wikipedia, but elsewhere, it is an uncommon usage. I rather think those links should link directly to the article in question, and the redirect go to the disambiguation page.--Vercalos 03:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- It is strange to me that you have not heard of ISO standards, like the A4 paper size defined in ISO 216 or ISO 8859-1 character encoding or ISO 9660, the CD-ROM file format. International Organization for Standardization is definitely by far the most common meaning of ISO in the fields of business, computing, engineering, and science. People who do want something else have to click through just one extra link. What meaning were you looking for? Kusma (討論) 04:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- CD images. I was writing up a reference to the Warez article.--Vercalos 06:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- I see. So you were looking for ISO 9660/ISO image, but these are ISO standards defined by the International Organization for Standardization. I think most people talking about ISO mean either the organization or one of their standards, but these two seem (to me) to be so closely related that linking to a disambiguation page that contains a lot of other stuff is somewhat misleading. Would it make sense/be sufficient to try link to List of ISO standards more prominently on the International Organization for Standardization page? Kusma (討論) 07:08, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- CD images. I was writing up a reference to the Warez article.--Vercalos 06:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- It is strange to me that you have not heard of ISO standards, like the A4 paper size defined in ISO 216 or ISO 8859-1 character encoding or ISO 9660, the CD-ROM file format. International Organization for Standardization is definitely by far the most common meaning of ISO in the fields of business, computing, engineering, and science. People who do want something else have to click through just one extra link. What meaning were you looking for? Kusma (討論) 04:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- International Organization for Standardization may be the most common usage for Wikipedia, but elsewhere, it is an uncommon usage. I rather think those links should link directly to the article in question, and the redirect go to the disambiguation page.--Vercalos 03:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Moving Iso to ISO
I want to move Iso, the current page for all of the I-S-O acronyms, to ISO. It makes more sense for this to be the page for ISO acronyms than to be a redirect to just one of those organizations. How would I go about doing this? Thanks, Valley2city 04:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- As the International Organization for Standardization and its standards are by far the most common meaning of ISO, I don't think this is such a good idea. But anyway, as a move from Iso to ISO can only be done by an admin, you should propose it at Wikipedia:Requested moves, which should have all the information you need on how to proceed. After five days of discussion time, the page will then be moved or not moved by an admin. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 06:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
