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Draft:COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra is a redirect,

while Draft talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra is not

??? Webclouddat (talk) 02:56, 23 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

was there a decision that said that draft talks dont get redirected that i dont know of??

>> Webclouddat (talk) 03:09, 23 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPath^talk 01:56, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have found/thought of a format for making a/fixing a virus stub article, it includes articles with Pathology too

If its not a stub, like Human betaherpesvirus 5, than this format would not work

If pathology doesnt exist, virology does noot need to be said as a section; move rest up

Main paragraph : <>, also known as <>, is a _ of the _ <> - ^/1/. (Causes disease, diseases). __ serve as natural hosts.^/2/

== Pathology
=== Clinical signs
=== Diagnosis
=== Treatment
== Hosts^/2/
== Name
== Taxonomy (sometimes called "Species")
== Virology
=== Genome
=== Structure/Morphology
=== Lifecycle
=== Cellular effects
=== Replication
== History

...
/1/:
if its a species, say the subfamily and family
if its a genus, say the subfamily, family, and suborder
if its a family, say the order, subclass, and class
... if X say X+1, X+1.5, X+2
/2/:
if less info; then do not have a whole section on it _>>> Webclo^udd@their-talk-page 06:05, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think this is too prescriptive. There's a danger of conflating the virus and the disease. How would bacteriophages or endogenous retroviruses fit into this? In any case, shouldn't Hosts come before Pathology? And isn't Lifecycle and Replication the same thing? Isn't Cellular effects part of Pathology? Graham Beards (talk) 09:56, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

0. do you mean prescriptive?

1. if so, this is not really something new, its based on something ive seen so id call it a combination of prescriptive and descriptive:

- ive seen like A before B and B before C but never A and C at the same time, then i say A, B, C in order

• ive seen pathology come before virus info more than the opposite
• ive seen Genome Structure Replication come in that order too many times
• yes there is a danger of conflating the virus and the disease, but i think if they are stubs, there is no use in making the virus and the disease 2 different pages if you can just do a redirect.

2. yes you are correct now that i think hosts should come before pathology, but the ones ive seen, i think hosts have come after pathology

3. hmm idk i think i saw a few pages that differentiated them

4. bacteriophages or endogenous retrovirus would not fit into this, as this is for "normal" virus articles that are stubs and do not have a seperate disease pages

5. oopsies i put cellular effects outside of pathology

6. and ofcourse its a basic format not supposed to be followed to a dot (i dont know why i put the notes as they definitely are too prescriptive)

_>>> Webclo^udd@their-talk-page 01:12, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is difficult to follow. Could you write in correct English please. What do you mean by "too many times"? And what on earth is a normal virus? This is a poorly thought out proposal, which is unlikely to be adopted. Graham Beards (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

1 Too many: Excessive (used with countable nouns) , thus i am saying i have seen it an excessive number of times? is that not correct english?

2. a normal virus is one that is not a phage, a virusoid, a satellite, an Retrotransposon, or a DIP; I do not understand why bacteriophages would be prevented from fitting into that order.

3. I do not know what you mean by correct english, if you mean to say that you can not comprehend it, then sorry.

4. Well, again; this is not a new thing, but one that i have already seen, but yes it is quite poorly thought out, partly because I spent less than an hour on it.

5. This is not supposed to be a proposal; think of it like a boilerplate that you can start on but freely edit; such as my proposal to move the pathology to a separate article when it gets larger.

_>>> Webclo^udd@their-talk-page 12:48, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

First, I know what "too many" means. Second, I am not spending anymore time on this. Graham Beards (talk) 13:29, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If we look at the info box in the article on SARS-CoV-2 we see it is a strain of the species SARS-related coronavirus, from the sub-genus Sarbecovirus. The only problem is that SARS-related coronavirus is (at least according to the article) the same thing as Sarbecovirus.

Seeing that Sarbecovirus was picked up as a sub-genus by the template, I assumed this must be correct when I edited SARS-related coronavirus, which had a similar issue. But now I see that articles about SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 have this issue, I thought I should try to get a consensus here before editing more articles.

This subject is confused slightly by the term "SARS-related coronavirus" being used in old texts (before SARS-CoV-2) to refer specifially to SARS-CoV-1, which was just called SARS-CoV at the time. I think the terms "SARS-related coronavirus" and Sarbecovirus are both now used to refer to clade of betacoronaviruses that includes both SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.

I guess this is complicated by the definition of a species being harder for a virus than for sexually-reproducing organism, but I thought we should at least try to be consistent, unless there is a good reason not to.

Yaris678 (talk) 14:41, 22 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Reading this Nature article from March 2020 it looks like Sarbecovirus was already recognised as a subgenus of Betacoronavirus before SARS-COV2 was observed, and that article shows the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses renaming 2019-nCoV as SARS-CoV2 and placing it within the subgenus Sarbecovirus.

As the Wikipedia article itself makes clear, the name SARS-related coronavirus is potentially misleading as it can refer to Sarbecovirus or to the more-specific SARS-CoV1.

I propose renaming the article to SARS-related coronavirus to Sarbecovirus and reordering the lead as appropriate.

I don't think that is a controversial idea, but I'll wait for a bit to see if anyone wants to comment before I move it.

Yaris678 (talk) 22:53, 17 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sarbecovirus is a subgenus with a single species. Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus is the scientific name of that species, which is often abbreviated to "SARS-related coronavirus". When a genus (or subgenus) has only one species, Wikipedia covers the genus and the species in a single article. Plantdrew (talk) 02:39, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn't have guessed that. It seems a bit bonkers to create a subgenus with only one species, but reading it more closely, that is what the Nature article I mention above says.

I just now looked at this page about Betacoronavirus on the website of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The Member Species table at the bottom lists SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 separately, but states that they are both of the species "Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus". The Member Species table doesn't have multiple lines for any other subgenus. So the table supports the conclusion that there is only one species in the genus, but it is sort of recognising that this is a bit odd.

Another interesting thing I noticed about that table is that the sub-genera Embecovirus, Merbecovirus and Nobecovirus each contain more than one species, whereas Hibecovirus (like Sarbecovirus) contains only one. This helps me to see why they bothered to create a subgenus with only one species. The aim is create the five sub-genera of Betacoronavirus. Some of these have more than one species, which is why there is the need to create subgenera. The ones that have only one species exist to show that the variation of these sub-genera from the others is at a similar level.

My apologies if all the above was obvious. It was mostly me thinking aloud.

I have made an edit to SARS-related coronavirus which will hopefully make things clearer to someone else coming at this as I did before.

Yaris678 (talk) 01:38, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've just noticed that the other single-species sub-genus of betacoronavirus has the article named after the subgenus Hibecovirus, not the species. Bat Hp-betacoronavirus Zhejiang2013 is a redirect to Hibecovirus.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:14, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There technically isn't any guideline about how to deal with monotypic virus (and bacteria) taxa. There is WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA and WP:MONOTYPICFLORA covering animals and plants respectively. The animal guideline doesn't mention subgenera. The plant guideline suggests that monotypic subgenera should be at the species title.

I'm not particularly inclined to mess with Hibecovirus/Bat Hp-betacoronavirus Zhejiang2013 at the moment. Virus taxonomists have recently adopted binomial nomenclature for species; some species have been renamed, and all will be renamed in the near future. Bat Hp-betacoronavirus Zhejiang2013 will receive a new name sometime soon. Plantdrew (talk) 17:50, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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