Talk:Novel coronavirus

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Can you please confirm whether Novel coronavirus 2012 and hCoV-EMC are actually two different viruses or not? Thanks.
Bwrs (talk) 15:46, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Prominent link to 2019-nCoV[edit]

I'd guess 9 out of 10 users finding this page are seeking 2019-nCoV. Landing on this entry could be confusing. Could we temporarily place an About template entry be added pointing those users to that entry?

- Wikmoz (talk) 20:33, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Going to run with the above. Feel free to improve on it. - Wikmoz (talk) 07:54, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

in this case, 2002 and 2005 initial names need to be researche. currently its most likely wrong. EnTerbury (talk) 08:48, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

20XX-nCoV naming format[edit]

I removed the labels 2002-nCoV, 2005-nCoV and 2012-nCoV as I could find no supporting evidence that these terms were used, at the time or recently with the (WHO-recommended) use of 2019-nCoV. 'novel coronavirus 2005' is not found, and so was removed. 'novel coronavirus 2012' is more widely used, and so is kept. I also removed the unsupported statement 'Different species are identified by prepending the year of discovery to the novel coronavirus term "nCoV" '. Using these terms here looks like a (good-faith) attempt to apply order that does not reflect actual usage. I suggest that we discuss here before reinserting those, unless clear references are available. - Onanoff (talk) 10:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The firs SARS-virus and HKU1 are both reffered to as novel coronavirus. But I can't neither find a source that exactly states that these viruses were called 2002-nCoV of 2005-nCoV respectively. I found my sources here 2005 novel coronavirus via google scholar and novel coronavirus 2002 via google scholar. Melvinvk (talk) 21:46, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

why were they reinstated again? I could find a contemporary source for 2012, but 2005 and 2002 dont seem to have been called like that before wikipedia did. id say they should be removed.EnTerbury (talk) 08:46, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, the invented terms "2002-nCoV", "2005-nCoV" and "2012-nCoV" were inserted here, labelled 'initial names'. There is no evidence for any use of these, and I have removed that column of the table, and adjusted another to 'Other names', alongside the (first-mentioned) official one. Perhaps we should distinguish formal and informal names, but I haven't yet.
This erroneous reintroduction was part of a major revision (including tabulation of the names) by user Special:Contributions/89.206.118.4 (who seems competent and well intentioned, if anonymous) at 12:47, on 11 February 2020‎. Others may wish to review the rest of that edit.
Please look out for any further 'wishful' rationalising of earlier coronavirus terms. - Onanoff (talk) 15:24, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Passing mention of this Wikipedia article in press[edit]

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus

---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:08, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Noble corona" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Noble corona. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 14:16, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Nobel corona" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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