Talk:ISS (disambiguation)

The following discussion is an archived debate 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 debate was move. -- tariqabjotu 21:19, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

ISS → ISS (disambiguation) – The International Space Station is by far the most common usage of the term ISS, so ISS should redirect to it, and this page should be a disambiguation linked to from the International Space Station article using {{redirect}}. GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 00:22, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Survey

Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

• Support per GW_Simulations —Mets501 (talk) 02:53, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose alot of people call the ISS, space station Alpha, or Space Station Freedom. 132.205.44.134 04:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Just a comment, since I really don't care one way or the other! Anyway you've got things round the wrong way - it's neither here nor there what other names people use for the space station... GW' is saying the main meaning of "ISS" is International Space Station (which I probably agree with, so I guess this is Support after all). Thanks/wangi 04:41, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support per GW. The space station is the most common use of ISS(and what it's usually referred as). TJ Spyke 06:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. I'm not convinced that the most common usage is for the International Space Station. Given that that 'space station' is likely the most common name for the object only severs to muddy the waters. I guess the question is what harm is done by not changing? I see no harm in leaving things as they are. By doing the change, several existing links would be redirected to the wrong article. Vegaswikian 19:30, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support per GW_Simulations --B33R 20:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Weak oppose pending better data/arguments. -- nae'blis 00:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support First page of Google results for ISS is 50% International Space Station; I haven't heard of any other meaning on ISS disambig page (yes, I'm aware that both my reasons for voting are not quite the most objective, but they convince me ;-) ) --Dijxtra 10:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Question — are we placing a "ISS redirects here, for other uses..." on top of the International Space Station article? I quite dislike them... // Duccio 15:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
  Support — // Duccio 14:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. This is what disambig (and tla-disambig) pages are for. Bolivian Unicyclist 13:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support. This is what x(disambiguation) is for. One use is by far the most common use and so should be a redirect. Rmhermen 20:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support - This situation is what WP:DAB#Primary_topic describes. --3Idiot 15:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support - there aren't many pages to that link to ISS right now (< 25 pages), so it wouldn't be hard to change back - but i don't think we'll want to anyway. Mlm42 15:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

Add any additional comments

I have had a look at "what links here" on each of the pages listed, and I have found:

Page	Number of links (excluding this one)
International Space Station	938
ISS A/S	7
Institute of Social Studies	7
Industrial Sounding System	3 (2 AFD nominations and a vandalism warning, so it is technically an orphan)
International Superstar Soccer	48 (A large number are duplicate entries thanks to 16 redirects)
Internet Security Systems	22
Imperial Star Ship (Which is a redirect to Imperial Starship)	3 (A further 6 link directly to Imperial Starship)
International Social Services	0 (Orphan)
Instruction Set Simulator	8
Indian Springs School	7
All other items are redlinks

Therefore, I would say that the ISS Space Station is indisputably the most notable of these, on the grounds that it has all but 9 times as many links to it as the rest of the pages put together. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 12:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the space station is the target most people are wanting when they aim at "ISS". However, I think we who edit space mission pages could be more careful about using the abbreviation properly per the Manual of Style suggestions and then not overlinking "ISS" every time it's used.
--3Idiot 15:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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Cleanup

This disambiguation page was marked for cleanup. I removed all redlinks without incoming links, i.e. entries that weren't currently used for disambiguation:

• ISS Inc, a biomedical and fluorescence instrumentation company based in the USA
• Island Songwriter Society The largest organization of songwriters meeting on Long Island, New York.

IslandSongwriters.org

• Imprinted Sportswear Show A convention for emroidery, silk screening, and wearing apparel industries.
• Impulsive Stimulated Scattering, a technique for measuring sound velocities in materials
• Indian Statistical Service, a cadre of statisticians established by Government of India
• Information Systems Support, Inc., IT solutions provider
• Institutional Shareholder Services, a leading provider of corporate governance research and analysis
• Intelligent Systems Society
• International Schools Services is a "nonprofit corporation dedicated to excellence for children attending overseas schools worldwide"
• Injury Severity Score
• Integrated Support Service Support for being reintegrated into any mainstream educational facilities.
• International Science School A program run by University of Sydney every two years for talented science students. ISS Home

– sgeureka ^t•c 21:57, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup - June 2009

Entries removed:

• Input-to-state stability, which is a stability notion in control theory similar to BIBO stability for nonlinear systems
• International Security Academy Israel - formerly known as ISS - Int. Security School]

--OlEnglish ^(Talk) 22:43, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Acronyms that don't belong

Why is Internet Information Services listed? That's IIS, not ISS. --Bigpeteb (talk) 03:31, 15 April 2011 (UTC)