Draft talk:Open Process Automation Standard

Three Sources for Further Consideration

Opening a discussion to revisit the test for notability (WP:N) with three (WP:THREE) example sources for further consideration. Wikipedia's notability guidelines for Technology (WP:TECH) are encompassed within the General Notability Guideline (WP:GNG). In testing for notability (WP:GNG) it is duly noted that a topic must have significant coverage (WP:SIGCOV) in “reliable sources that are independent of the subject”. Of the 42 references currently cited in the draft article, three (3) examples of such coverage are numbered below:

1. Open Process Automation- and Digital Twin-Based Performance Monitoring of a Process Manufacturing System (June 2022)
2. Comparison and Alignment of OPAS and MTP Concepts (April 2022)
3. Open Process Automation: A standards-based, open, secure, interoperable process control architecture (July 2020)

Reference 1 is a technical paper published through IEEE, a global professional organization that appears to be a registered 501(c)(3) entity (non-profit) in the United States. The paper has six (6) authors, three of whom have PhDs from various academic institutions. All of the authors appear to be technologists and two of the authors appear to be academic researchers. This paper is noted as having been cited by 20+ co-authors across 10 other papers.

Reference 2 is a paper published through Pforzheim University in Germany. The paper is authored by five (5) academic researchers. This paper is noted as having been cited by 15+ co-authors across 6 other papers.

Reference 3 is a technical paper published in Control Engineering Practice, a journal that appears to be peer-reviewed by industrial experts and researchers. The peer-reviewed paper has nine (9) authors and is noted as having been cited by 12 other papers.

The three research sources mentioned above do present as non-trivial mentions of the proposed article topic, which clears the threshold of significant coverage (WP:SIGCOV), whereby “no original research is needed to extract the content” (WP:NOR).

While a topic “does not need to have ongoing coverage” (WP:NTEMP), it is worth noting that “sustained coverage is an indicator of notability” (WP:SUSTAINED). In the case of the proposed topic, the information sources referenced within the article range from 2019 through 2025 and include primary, secondary and tertiary sources (WP:INDY).

While only 3 out of 42 references are covered in this discussion, they would seem to suggest that the proposed article topic has received significant coverage for a sustained period of time through in-depth, reliable, secondary, and independent criteria sources. The proposed article's reference list contains first-party, second-party, and third-party information sources.

All discourse is welcome.

Bwg21 (talk) 23:32, 18 October 2025 (UTC)