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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)
Pospiviroidae
Virus classification
Group: Viroids
Family: Pospiviroidae
Genera

Pospiviroid
Hostuviroid
etc.

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/archive1. 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)


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)

[edit] New Wikiproject proposal

I'm looking to start Wikiproject Microbiology. I have just put a proposal up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Microbiology and I invite anyone that thinks they would like to join to express their interest there. A suggestion has been made there to merge WikiProject Viruses into Wikiproject Microbiology, and it would be great to get some comments on this. I have a temporary page up here. Thanks. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:33, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Immune system FAC

Immune system has also been nominated as a FAC, any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thank you. TimVickers 16:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General question

I'm new to wikipedia and I was wondering, for an article to be included as part of the Virus WikiProject does it need to be approved in any way or can I just add the {{Wikiproject Viruses}} template? MadScientistVX 06:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

No, there is no special procedure for tagging articles as being within the scope of this wikiproject; you may just add the template to the talk page of the article. Welcome to Wikipedia! -Frazzydee|✍ 14:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Narnaviridae

This article on a particular virus has not been edited in two years until I touched it up. Since I'm not a specialist on viruses, could anyone try to improve this article? Thanks, Sr13 (T|C) 06:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Also add Potyviridae to the list. Sr13 (T|C) 06:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Turnip yellow mosaic virus

I have started article Turnip yellow mosaic virus, and added my images there. Verification needed. --Snek01 23:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antivirals and vaccines

Should antiviral drugs or vaccines (or both) be included in this project? G716A 19:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you're welcome to contribute on those subjects to WikiProject Viruses (anything related to viruses is within the project scope). Some related pages are located at Category:Antivirals and Category:Vaccines. +A.0u 01:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Influenza pandemic RFC

I'm hoping this article should fall within the interest of some of the members of this Wikiproject - there's a request for comment going on at the Influenza pandemic talk page over the inclusion of a section, and hopefully your input could be useful in establishing a consensus over what to do. Cheers. QmunkE 08:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] list, category, template

Can someone explain the different purposes of three different ways of listing antiviral drugs. There's a template, a category, and a list of antivirals. Seems to be a lot of redundancy, and some inconsistency among the three lists. How should these be used, updated and maintained? Thanks.

[edit] WP:TOL template

I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scrumpox

I've just created this article, but I'm not so knowledgeable on the subject (neither sport nor visuses), and would appreciate an eye-over from someone here. Thanks. Cormaggio is learning 22:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sendai virus

I just expanded this article from a former stub, and would like someone to peruse it/edit it, should such be necessary. Thanks! -EarthRise33 00:03, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Virology journals

I've created a list of virology journals at List of scientific journals in biology. I believe it's reasonably complete for periodicals in virology and antiviral drugs (excluding journals whose main focus is microbiology and discontinued ones), but if I've left out something obvious please do amend! I intend to write articles for at least some of the many red links over the coming months. Espresso Addict 03:59, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Italicization

How's italicization handled in viruses? For example, is it "Rhopalosiphum padi virus" or (more in line with "true" lifeforms) "Rhopalosiphum padi virus"? Dysmorodrepanis 11:33, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Technically, I believe the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recommendation is that species names should italicised, including the word virus. (See, for example, [1] where the virus species are italicised on the subpages, if not on the index page.) However, with some exceptions, normal usage generally doesn't italicise any of the name, and currently most articles use the more informal style except in the infobox. Hope this helps! Espresso Addict 21:28, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Gr@cias! Dysmorodrepanis 23:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Virus-related AfD discussion

Just a heads up that potato virus U is currently up for AfD. Espresso Addict 01:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Now kept. Thanks anyone who visited and commented! Espresso Addict 09:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to include serotypes in taxoboxes??

Taxoboxes seem to end with the lowest level as species. How do we add serotypes? For example, for Coxsackie B, the taxobox is:

{{Taxobox | color = violet
| name = ''Coxsackievirus B virus''
| virus_group = iv
| familia = ''[[Picornaviridae]]''
| genus = ''[[Enterovirus]]''
| species = '''''Coxsackievirus B4 virus'''''
}}

but should be

{{Taxobox | color = violet
| name = ''Coxsackievirus B virus''
| virus_group = iv
| familia = ''[[Picornaviridae]]''
| genus = ''[[Enterovirus]]''
| species = ''Human Enterovirus''
| serotype = '''''Coxsackie B virus'''''
}}

but the serotype does not resolve. Anybody have a fix? TIA —G716 <T·C> 08:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Influenza related articles need attention

Hi. I've been noticing a very serious trend in Influenza related articles to be promoting alarm, safety instructions and over-focus relating to H5N1.

These articles have issues with Tone, Undue Weight, Lack of Context, Unclear referencing, Too many extra external links, Readability, POV-Forking among other issues.

Some of the articles I express serious concern over:

In particular I have been having trouble communicating with WAS 4.250 (talk • contribs • logs) about his editing style and collaborating towards improvements toward these articles. (Dialogue User_talk:ZayZayEM#Flu_articles)

Any help, interest or advice from the community involved in this project as to how to improve these articles will be appreciated.--ZayZayEM 10:43, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I am largely responsible for the flu series of articles and I am trying to edit wikipedia less these days. Anyone who wishes to take over the care and feeding of these articles is encouraged to do so, as I am no longer taking care of them. It would be great if people would do to all the flu articles what User:Tim Vickers did to the flu article. Good luck everybody! WAS 4.250 23:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Winter Vomiting Virus redirected

There was a very short, unreferenced article at Winter Vomiting Virus that basically repeated some information from Norovirus. I don't know if Winter vomiting virus has its own scientific classification (I am not a doctor or a virologist) - but since a user proposed a merge in March and no-one commented since, I went ahead and redirected the link to Norovirus. Please research and fix it if you see an error in that. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 08:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine to me; it looks as if "winter vomiting virus" is just an informal layperson's term for the Norwalk virus. Espresso Addict 09:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rotavirus and Hepatitis B virus

Hello everybody. I've done a lot of work on these two articles and they have been awarded GA status. Do they have any FA potential? All comments are welcome, I have grown a thick skin since nominating Virus! Best wishes GrahamColmTalk 20:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do I request that an article be re-assessed?

How do I request that an article be re-assessed? talk:Simian immunodeficiency virus‎ says it is stub/low importance. Personally I would have said start/mid myself. RJFJR 20:38, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Go ahead and do so yourself, but put a brief explanation of your reasons on the talk page. Tim Vickers 21:06, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ross River Fever & Ross River virus

Possible merger, please see Talk:Ross River virus. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAC Nomination

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Herpes zoster. Any help will be appreciated.OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 17:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rotavirus

Hi, are there any viable virologists here? Rotavirus is a FAC but apart from Colin, there are no comments from the project.--GrahamColmTalk 21:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Erroneous redirect

The redirect from Adeno_associated_virus_group to Adenovirus is completely inaccurate, adeno-associated virus and adenovirus are not synonymous terms. NCBI taxonomy browser links provided as evidence.

Adeno-associated virus

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=10803&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock

Adenovirus

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=10508&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock

69.115.94.176 (talk) 02:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

This has been fixed 69.115.94.176 (talk) 19:05, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice. There is an article on Adeno-associated virus already in Wikipedia. I did not know this. I added information to the Dependovirus article. They should probably be incorporated into just the one. Does Wikipedia have specific guidelines I should follow on this? --Blechnic (talk) 09:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

There are also serious problems with the helper virus article, if anyone has time. --Blechnic (talk) 21:54, 30 March 2008 (UTC)