Talk:MERS-related coronavirus

Virus hosts 'Swine' REFERENCE typo? (sb 37, not 36?)

Under 'Taxonomy', 'Virus hosts', 'Swine' is referenced as #36, but I see nothing at that reference about swine; reference #37, however, does mention swine.

2012-nCoV name was not used at the time (or now, hardly)

I removed the false statement that this was initially called 2012-nCov, as inserted by User 67.70.33.184, on 06:52, 26 January 2020. The 20XX-nCoV naming format should not be retrospectively applied, unsupported by references. The longer '2012 novel coronavirus' is also a subsequent invention.
For any further discussion, please use Talk:Novel_coronavirus#20XX-nCoV_naming_format. - Onanoff (talk) 15:49, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 2 July 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Although there is only a weak consensus, the article should have the same punctuation as the other article. In future both should be discussed in the same RM. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 08:36, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus → Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus – Per MOS:SUFFIXDASH and the recent RM at Talk:Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (closed as "Consensus to move" on 19 June 2020. Also see the Chicago Manual of Style recommendation here. —BarrelProof (talk) 21:44, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Note – this issue was recently decided in favor of the en dash, at Talk:Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus#Requested move 5 June 2020. It might be good to review the arguments and result there. Dicklyon (talk) 04:33, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose. WP:MOS does not mention how to deal with organisms that have hyphens or dashes in their names. This is a gray area where someone can impose their personal preference via loopholes. It is standard on Wikipedia to use hyphens in virus scientific names since that is what the ICTV does, so the article should be kept with a hyphen until the MOS is clarified. Velayinosu (talk) 00:37, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I will also add that the ICTV explicitly states on its website[1] that punctuation marks other than hyphens are prohibited in taxonomic names, i.e. hyphens are the only permitted form of punctuation in virus taxonomic names, i.e. dashes are prohibited. Velayinosu (talk) 04:39, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

• Leaning oppose. So if I'm understanding this correctly, the official name of the virus appears to use a hyphen. And after reading over MOS:SUFFIXDASH I don't think that it strictly applies here, as this isn't a generic suffix that has been added by editors, as all the examples there seem to be, but rather a proper taxonomical name. Rreagan007 (talk) 01:14, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
• Support – the en dash for a suffix on a multi-word compound is WP style. There should be no confusion what it indicates, or that other styles might render it as a hyphen. Dicklyon (talk) 03:29, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
• Support – well, it was a 20th-century invention of Chicago MOS, and I don't mind it (though others might object). We adopted it at the behest of a US editor at WP:MOS. Velayinosu, the name of the organism has no dash or hyphen within it; that is why the en dash is pressed into service to link the compound spaced item with an external item. Tony (talk) 03:34, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

According to the ICTV, it has a hyphen it its name (both on the ICTV's website and in the species master list). Also according to the ICTV,[2] punctuation marks other than hyphens are prohibited in taxonomic names. Velayinosu (talk) 04:39, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia has its own style guide that covers the usage of punctuation marks. It does not necessarily follow any particular external authority, and is intended for more broad readership than the specialist literature. Redirect pages can serve to link variations so that they lead to the same article. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:00, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

WP:MOS appears to have been changed in the past to accommodate viruses (see MOS:LIFE and MOS:ITAL), so it will beneficial to amend it to make sure that viruses' names are spelled correctly with regard to this topic. Velayinosu (talk) 01:31, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

It's about typography, not spelling; no special case or exception is needed for viruses, and what you're trying to do would just result in a style conflict that would impair readability, since in WP style we distinguish the grammatical roles of hyphens and dashes, whereas some other styles such as ICTV's do not. Dicklyon (talk) 16:11, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Using a dash reduces the accuracy of the article, so even if the article is moved to the dash, it will be necessary to to move it back to the hyphen in order to improve the quality of the article. And WP:MOS makes no mention of instances such as this, which is why it should be amended. Velayinosu (talk) 02:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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Natural reservoir section too long

I think the natural reservoir section is currently too long and verbose. It contains seven paragraphs which in my opinion can be trimmed so that essential facts remains, such as: what is the the natural reservoir species, how do scientists know that it is the reservoir (i.e. presence of antibodies in many camels sampled), and what are the main evolutionary relationships between MERS-CoV and MERSr-CoVs. Forich (talk) 05:47, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

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Requested move 19 July 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. As uncontested despite two relists. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 14:58, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

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MERS-CoV → MERS-related coronavirus – Please see the similar just-closed RM at Talk:SARS-related coronavirus#Requested move 9 July 2022. This article was recently renamed (from a title different from what I am suggesting here). However, I suggest that this proposed name would be more WP:RECOGNIZEable for most readers. I made this suggestion in the recent RM at Talk:SARS-CoV-2#Requested move 21 June 2022, but there was no reaction to my suggestion at the time, as the focus of that discussion was about whether to abbreviate MERS or not. I think the current title is now overly abbreviated to a degree that makes it difficult for readers to recognize. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 07:59, 19 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 04:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 15:20, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

• Support for consistency. Dekimasuよ! 13:16, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

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