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—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 18:57, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

== Citing Standards ==

There apparently is no {{tl|cite standard}} template yet, which could be used for citing technical standards, although these are often used as references for articles on technical subjects in Wikipedia or even have dedicated articles. Some standards, e.g. most of those issued by ISO, are not available for free, which is sometimes seen as hindering their use as a (reliable) source, but most are available to the general (paying) public, thus do not really violate the principles of verifiability.

Standards usually have one or more [[list of technical standard organizations|issuing bodies]] which are almost always best known by an acronym, e.g. ISO, IEC, IETF (RFC), IEEE, ITU, SMPTE, ETSI, CEN/CENELEC (EN), CIE, W3C, WHATWG, ECMA, EBU, ANSI, NTSC, NIST, FCC, AMSE, BS, CAN, DIN, JIS, GOST, ARIA, ARIB, CCIR, ASTM, IATA, ICAO.

Most standards are identified by an identification number, sometimes a part or sub-part, and a date (often just the year) of initial publishing or last revision, but they usually also have a title, subtitle, possibly part title, draft or release status, category, subject etc. Author and publisher are often the same, although a designated bureau, committee, taskforce or workgroup may have been chartered with its creation. Many are also related to other standards: they may revise, replace or update them, be published jointly in synchronization with them, translate or adapt them nationally etc.

In short: I'm not sure which (new) parameters would be needed, which should be discouraged, recommended or required and which should be mapped to existing ones by aliases, but I sure wish there was a helpful template. — [[User:Crissov|Christoph]] [[User talk:Crissov|Päper]] 12:47, 16 November 2019 (UTC)