Talk:International Society of Automation

This article was nominated for deletion on 4 August 2012 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

The following discussion is an archived 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 support for move.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 09:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

Move to the accurate name. — Swpb^{τ • c} 20:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support the move. "ISA-The" should not be part of the title (added Nov 2007) and International Society of Automation appears to be the current name[1]. Station1 (talk) 20:26, 28 December 2008 (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.

PROD

A proposal for deletion was put on the article. While this is certainly not widely noted, it is a professional organization, boring and old. I don't think it will be killed as part of an RfD. While it is VERY LOW on my priority list, I mildly hope to make the article a wee bit better over time.User talk:Unfriend12 04:29, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Restored the PROD. If none of the current members care enough to pull it, I'll support the PROD due to apathy. :) User talk:Unfriend12 04:52, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What the ISA does

The ISA has over 30,000 members and writes/maintains a large number of standards for chemical, petrochemical, and process plant design. These standards cover areas like safety, alarm management, instrumentation that makes plants work. It is a volunteer non-profit association.

I guess if you want to delete articles about professional societies, you might as well delete the IEEE as well...as they are the exact same sort of professional association. You might want to look up the IEEE, the publish standards too - standards that make the Internet possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.184.246 (talk) 01:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

The International Society of Automation also produces the ISA99 standard which is one of the important Cyber security standards. The Cyber security standards page is within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing, the article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. The ISA99 page has a link to the International Society of Automation page. The cyber security of private industries and governmental installations dependent on the reliable functioning of an Industrial control system is a highly debated subject, that has considerable importance for the security of the critical infrastructure of any country. For example: International Society of Automation cyber security standards are mentioned on the United States Computer Emergency Response Team website [2]. Xvdvoort (talk) 14:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]