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)

Prominent link to 2019-nCoV

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?

This article is about the naming convention for newly discovered coronaviruses. For the 2019 virus, see Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). For the ongoing outbreak, see 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

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

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

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)

20XX-nCoV naming format

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)

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)

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)

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)

Passing mention of this Wikipedia article in press

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

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

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