Talk:COVID-19 pandemic cases

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General

Superseded by TfD October 2020 and later practice - consult regular {{Current}} guidance.

Refrain from using Worldometer (worldometers.info) as a source due to common errors being observed as noted on the Case Count Task Force common errors page. (April 2020, April 2020)

For infoboxes on the main articles of countries, use Wuhan, Hubei, China for the origin parameter. (March 2020)

"Social distancing" is generally preferred over "physical distancing". (April 2020, May 2020)

Page title

COVID-19 (full caps) is preferable in the body of all articles, and in the title of all articles/category pages/etc.(RM April 2020, including the main article itself, RM March 2021).

SARS-CoV-2 (exact capitalisation and punctuation) is the common name of the virus and should be used for the main article's title, as well as in the body of all articles, and in the title of all other articles/category pages/etc. (June 2022, overturning April 2020)

Map

There is no consensus about which color schemes to use, but they should be consistent within articles as much as possible. There is agreement that there should be six levels of shading, plus gray for areas with no instances or no data. (May 2020)

There is no consensus about whether the legend, the date, and other elements should appear in the map image itself. (May 2020)

For map legends, ranges should use fixed round numbers (as opposed to updating dynamically). There is no consensus on what base population to use for per capita maps. (May 2020)

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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 pandemic cases (16 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	7,894	7,894
Current situation	22	1,645
Current situation (cases)	1,623	1,623
Territory without confirmed cases	419	419
Monthly links	68	1,684
2020	556	556
2021	760	760
2022	300	300
Cumulative monthly case totals by country	46	84,404
2020	31,443	31,443
2021	36,919	36,919
2022	15,996	15,996
Reliability of the confirmed counts	2,138	2,138
See also	136	136
References	2,358	2,358
External links	479	479
Total	101,157	101,157

On 27 December 2020, it was proposed that this article be moved to COVID-19 cases. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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Requested move 27 December 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Megan B.... ^{It’s all coming to me} till the end of time 19:32, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

– I don't think the word pandemic is necessary to identify what the article is about. Interstellarity (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: COVID-19 deaths titles a dab page with significant content and so is ineligible as a rename target unless it is also proposed to be moved. This request has been altered to reflect that fact. P.I. Ellsworth ed. ^put'r there 22:24, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Maybe in the future, it will be useful to distinguish between the now-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and further cases of COVID-19 after the pandemic per se is over, but for the time being, it's just redundant. —Kodiologist (t) 20:51, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Don't move - Yes it means when the pandemic is over it means that deaths can still be attributed to this page but in my opinion that's the problem. When the pandemic is over, accurate death reporting will turn into estimates like the flu, making this page no longer accurate. When the pandemic is over I feel its better to leave the large at its state as a bit of history, only being edited for grammar or retroactively adding deaths once better analysis comes happens. -AndrewRG10 (talk) 01:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The pages are perfectly well scoped both for now and for the future by their current titles. Andrewa (talk) 17:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There may well be future COVID pandemics starting in 2022, etc.. So we may well have COVID-22 pandemic deaths from COVID 22. In between the pandemics there will be people dying from various COVID mutations and strains. See: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and Coronavirus diseases. --Timeshifter (talk) 18:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Section "By country"

What is the point of this section? It refers to "The table" (can't see which one) and then lists a bunch of red links. No information whatsoever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:4B17:6A80:F5FF:5A6A:D112:CF30 (talk) 16:06, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think this page is unmaintained and are not update frequently. I have given the {{update}} template. Thingofme (talk) 13:56, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Update required

This page requires an update. It is very important not to discontinue updating it, because there isn't one one website on the whole World Wide Web that provides a simple and clear overview of stats on new COVID cases as this Wikipedia page does. I am willing to help with the work - contact me if needed. Thanks. NoWikiNoLife (talk) 02:00, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why is Turkmenistan not mentioned?

Yes, they are obviously lying with their claim of zero cases, but they should have been mentioned. https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/tm ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:30, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]