Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of EMC directives


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus. WP:NPASR ‑Scottywong | soliloquize _ 20:55, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

List of EMC directives

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This is not a list of EMC Directives. There is a substantive difference between Directives and Standards, and Wikipedia should not be spreading confusion by conflating the two. The list of EMC Directives is: 89/336/EEC, 2004/108/EC, and 2014/30/EU. I posit that this is not a list worthy of a Wikipedia page. What this page is, is an incomplete list of EMC standards; it would probably be better placed on a sister site intended for lists of references, rather than an encyclopaedic article. Mark1023 (talk) 13:06, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e deckertalk 06:24, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

 Keep and change title - Nom gives a good reason to change the title but does not link to a policy that this article violates. It appears to contain useful information and is reasonably referenced. Change title to List of EMC Standards Nickmalik (talk) 18:31, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I must take issue with "reasonably referenced". The first section (CISPR standards) contains an unverified statement, then links to 11 standards. 1 is external, 2 "have issues", and the other 8 are non-existent (red). The next section has 16 links, 14 of them red. The next, 7 links, 6 red. The section on European emission standards has 11 links, all red. The section on European immunity standards has 8 red links to standards. Over all these sections, 47 out of 53 links are non-existent.

Regarding whether the page should be kept (with a title change), the (incomplete and apparently arbitrary) list of standards is not encyclopedic. (As an aside, the Latest list of EMC standards harmonised under the EMC Directive is around 140 standards.) To the extent that the standards have been selected, this selection then constitutes original research. It's also, confusing, out-of-date, and liable to mislead the reader. With apologies to Wolfgang_Pauli, it's not even wrong. Mark1023 (talk) 20:07, 15 June 2014 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 08:19, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per policy Wikipedia is not a directory. --Bejnar (talk) 05:17, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.