Talk:Material safety data sheet
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Good afternoon, It appears that someone has logged in and put unnecessary comments and characters on one of your pages.....This is where is see it.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_safety_data_sheetes.
The above unsigned comment was posted 18:33, 2 February 2007 by 142.33.66.50 Pzavon 01:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
No they haven't
Pzavon 01:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Internationalization
I've reverted your changes to the MSDS article, despite the obvious effort you put into them. MSDS are not only a US required document. Under the same name, but with diferent format requirements, they are specified in Canada and the EU. The article was reasonably evenhanded in discussing all those jurisdictions until you edited it to make it very heavilly specific to the US. I don't believe that was appropriate. We are told Wikipedia articles should be more global, not less. Pzavon 21:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- I was trying to internationalize the article. The article seemed to me to indicate that the other countries had different names for their sheets and that they weren't the same as the US sheets. What do these other countries call their sheets? If we want an article about chemical information in general what name do we use? --Gbleem 21:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Canada calls them "Materials Safety Data Sheets" but is much more specific than the US as to how they are to be formatted. The UK also uses the term "Material Safety Data Sheet," as do a number of other countries, usually using the direct translation in their own languages rather than the English words. But this is an article in the English Language Wikipedia and should use the English term, which is MSDS.
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- Everyone is probably going to move toward calling them simply "Safety Data Sheets" as the Globally Harmonized System for Classification of Chemicals (GHS) is rolled out world-wide.
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- For now the term "Material Safety Data Sheet" has international recognition and I would leave the article titled that way until the influence of the GHS is more stongly felt.
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- Oh! The article gives the different names in different countries for the legislative acts that establish the requirement for an MSDS, not different names for the MSDS themselves.
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- Pzavon 02:03, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalisation
A discussion began on Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox#Capitalisation about whether to use title case ("Material Safety Data Sheet") when talking about these documents. Is this a plain-English descriptive phrase, or is it a more formal/technical title for these documents? DMacks (talk) 16:14, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- The term is generally used as a title. I always write it as MSDS, never msds, and I generally write it out fully in title case. I've just never thought it worth the trouble to try to get the title of this article changed. Pzavon (talk) 01:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] GHS in Canada
CSST has a few documents about WHMIS being modified to fit into GHS. THis is what I based my assertion on. I remember seeing some federal documents as well, those will have the advantage of being available in English as well. Looking. --Valmi ✒ 21:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
