Talk:European Committee for Standardization

Names and codes
Can anybody add more information about the types of EN standards and standard codes / names ? (ie. pr means project standard). --Mac 12:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree i wish to have more codes I'm making now a reserch for my job so I need more codes if any one can add information about EN 14085 and EN 14354. Your help will be higly appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.234.142.106 (talk) 08:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

The official name of CEN
As written in the official CEN website, isn't the official English name of CEN "European Committee for Standardization"? (with 'z' instead of 's' in standardization) If so, I think the article should be renamed to such. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks. --Sumori 05:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


 * As no one responded, I renamed the article on Nov. 1 to "Standardization" only to find JLogan quickly reverting it.


 * He claims that "European article, don't use US spelling". While I do undertstand that the normally Europeans prefer the spelling "standardisation", however, as I mentioned above, the name CEN uses is spelled out "standardization. Since this is the spelling they adapted, I think this is the official (legal) name.


 * I believe official names should be used for Wikipedia articles, so I would like to move this back to "Standardization". I would appreciate any comments on this. --Sumori 02:23, 2 November 2007 (UTC)


 * As JLogan agreed with me that "Standardization" being the official name, I moved the article back. --Sumori 15:36, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Spelling of 'standardization'
The convention to use the spelling 'standardization' and not 'standardisation' is derived from ISO/IEC Guide 2 'Standardization and related activities -- General vocabulary', adopted by CEN and CENELEC in Europe as an identical European Standard, EN 45020. Although the 'z' variant is the official spelling, it is not unusual to find those in the standards community also using the 's' variant.

El inglés stephen 18:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * This is an article about the CEN, which is an institution the United Kingdom (and not the United States) is part of. Thus, we use British spelling (standardisation) under Manual_of_Style.  Wikipedia has not adopted any of the standards you listed above.  Superm401 - Talk 22:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

At risk of being pedantic, there is a common misconception that "English" (as opposed to "American english") spells Standardization with an s. If one checks the Oxford English dictionary (the authoritative source of the english langauge http://oxforddictionaries.com) one will find that the "Z" spelling is the prefered English spelling although the "s" spelling is given as a secondary spelling. I believe this is related to the root of the parent noun. Dare I suggest that the OED is a more authoritative source than Wikipedia.

European Standard
As European Standards (EN) are published by CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, I'd support having a separate article for EN rather than discussing this topic in the CEN article. --Abdull (talk) 20:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * CEN does not only produce 'ENs' but also Workshop Agreements (CWA) and Guides (and probably also other types of documents). Better treat them here. --ChristopheS (talk) 16:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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