Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Viruses
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[edit] Inactive?
There's an inactive tag on this project... 132.205.94.174 23:09, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
- Due to small numbers we're not really inactive, just it seems that way when all 5 of us are busy elsewhere in our lives! -- Serephine / talk - 02:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unranked levels
The current Templates guide says to include levels that viruses are not classified at, with the label unranked. I'd like to suggest against this. To me, it implies all viruses would have orders if we knew more. I'm not certain, but it looks to me like the orders are meant to be real phylogenetic groups, so if some families have separate origins it may be deliberate. More importantly, it isn't the way the TOL project usually does things and it doesn't appear on many pages, even for viruses. Josh
- My bad, overzealous editing in the hope that an (unranked) tag would stop people wondering if the taxobox was incomplete. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction for the general taxoboxes, though for clarity's sake I'd prefer to leave (unranked) on the main Virus article. The ==Classification== heading adequately explains that classification begins at the order level, and the taxobox there alerts users to the fact that they aren't placed above that level. Thanks again! -- Serephine ♠ talk - 16:45, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
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It's no problem - thanks for taking charge here and setting all this out. There was another thing I wanted to see what you, and other virus-people, thought about. It would be nice to have taxoboxes for viroids, which fall under the same taxonomic code as viruses. I've created a sample, but maybe listing virus classification is too weird. Are there any ideas for how this should work? Josh
- I see no problem with the project incorporating viroids as a part of the work. I personally have never studied them so would be very careful in my dealings with them, but the lure of your taxobox creating skills is too much haha. Looking online seems to indicate no hard and fast classification system, and seeing as though the Viral classification page contains viroid classification I am keen to adopt your taxobox for the time being. Perhaps the ToL could give us a direction for this... I wouldn't want Wikipedia getting ahead of the virologists! -- Serephine ♠ talk - 03:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] rice yellow mottle sobemovirus RYMV
Structure. RYMV virions are icosahedral particles and form a single band when centrifuged in CsCl (1.36 g/cm3). The particles consist of approximately 20% RNA and 80% protein and contain no lipids or carbohydrates (13). The virus capsid is constructed from 180 copies of 26-kDa coat protein (CP) subunits assembled in a T = 3 icosahedral structure (Fig. 4B) stabilized by divalent cations (Ca2+), pH-dependent protein–protein interaction, and salt bridges between protein and RNA (30). The structure of RYMV has been refined to 2.8 Å resolution by X-ray crystallography (Fig. 4C) (54). Plant Disease 2005 / Vol. 89 No. 2 page 124
Viroid states it has no protein coat. What is right than? --Stone 11:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
- Thankyou for picking this up. RYMV is a virus, and must have been incorrectly placed in the Viroid article due to confusion over this abstract. The article was talking about associated small cytoplasmic RNA, which was not stated. I will tag the article as possibly containing more incorrect information and get onto correcting it after my exams. Thanks again Stone! -- Serephine ♠ talk - 11:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Version 0.5
I'm member of the Wikipedia CD Version 0.5 project. Please show me virus related articles which I could nominate. Thanks. NCurse work 20:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requenst for Peer-review of Influenza
Hi there. I'm trying to bring this page to FA quality, so comments are very welcome. Review page is Wikipedia:Peer review/Influenza. Thank you. TimVickers 23:28, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Influenza
Page now nominated as a FAC. Comments and suggestions are welcome on the review page. Thank you. TimVickers 00:53, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] To do list
Hi all. have just joined the wikiproject but it still doesn't seem very active. IMO, we should start a to do list, e.g. determine missing articles, articles which need expansion or categorizing.,.. etc. We can also organize our priorities and select an article or group of articles to work on every week. Anybody interested?--Wedian 19:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I just started the effort to bring this project back to life last night. I already started tagging articles of relevance to the project with the {{Wikiproject Viruses}} template, but yes, we have quite a bit to do. Any help would be dearly appreciated, even if it's just tagging articles and ranking their importance! – ClockworkSoul 21:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wildlife Barnstar
There is currently a barnstar proposal at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals#Wildlife Barnstar for a barnstar which would be available for use for this project. Please feel free to visit the page and make any comments you see fit. Badbilltucker 15:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
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I do not believe it would be a good idea to use the Wildlife Barnstar because viruses aren't really related to "wild or domestic animal" (indirectly, but kind of a stretch). I prefer a WikiProject Barnstar, since it'll be more focused. How about superimposing the virus pic over the original barnstar pic? Jumping cheese
Cont@ct 11:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tagging
What pages are included under WikiProject Viruses? Does the project include the diseases caused by viruses, or only the virus itself? For example, the HIV is tagged, whereas AIDS is not tagged. I prefer tagging all articles related to viruses since the tag states "this article is within the scope of the Viruses WikiProject". I'll hold off tagging the disease pages until a consensus is reached. =) Jumping cheese Cont@ct 11:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oh...and according to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Virus articles by quality, there is only a handful of virus pages that are tagged. I got some fun work ahead of me! =) Jumping cheese Cont@ct 12:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, very few articles have been tagged to date. The project isn't especially active, and is in need of somebody with the time to put in the effort to revitalize it. I myself am pretty much part time, putting most of my effort into maintaining the MCB wikiproject. To answer your questions, though, I think that both the diseases and their associated viral pathogens can fit comfortably into the scope of the project. Besides, if it doesn't work out, it can always change at a later date, anyway. – ClockworkSoul 16:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- The more pages that are tagged, the more people will know about the WikiProject Virus, and thus more participants! yay I'll tag as many as I can, including the diseases. Jumping cheese Cont@ct 08:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- The more pages that are tagged, the more people will know about the WikiProject Virus, and thus more participants! yay I'll tag as many as I can, including the diseases. Jumping cheese
- Yes, very few articles have been tagged to date. The project isn't especially active, and is in need of somebody with the time to put in the effort to revitalize it. I myself am pretty much part time, putting most of my effort into maintaining the MCB wikiproject. To answer your questions, though, I think that both the diseases and their associated viral pathogens can fit comfortably into the scope of the project. Besides, if it doesn't work out, it can always change at a later date, anyway. – ClockworkSoul 16:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
