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Omer Benjakob (February 9, 2020). "Never trust Wikipedia". Wired (magazine). Retrieved February 9, 2020. While a short and generic Wikipedia page on "coronavirus" had existed since 2013, the article about the "2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak" was created on January 5, 2020
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RM, Coronavirus → Coronavirus (group of viruses), Not moved, 18 March 2020, discussion
RM, Coronavirus → Orthocoronavirinae, Withdrawn, 18 August 2021, discussion
RM, Coronavirus → Orthocoronavirinae, Not moved, 23 December 2021, discussion
coronaviruses should be family coronaviridae, not orthocoronavirinae
"Biologists classify organisms hierarchically on the basis of how they are related to one another. The term "orthocoronavirinae" represents a "sub-family" of the coronaviruses and simply denotes things that are rather closely related, explains Professor Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist and head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading,
"In turn, these form part of a larger 'order of viruses' known as the nidovirales and Covid-19 is in this sub-family," Professor Pagel explains."
Typically, families are the units which are referred to colloquially. For example, bears are ursidae, dogs are canidae, cats are felidae, assassin bugs are reduviidae, robber flies are asilidae, great apes are hominidae. IMO the article is incorrect to state coronaviruses are subfamily coronavirinae. IMO coronavirus should refer to the family coronaviridae.
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