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The result of the move request was: Moved to 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, along with most per-country articles and stuff from Category:Monkeypox (to be submitted to WP:C2D). No such user ( talk) 18:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was:
Boldly putting this on hold as the result is basically contingent on the move request at the Mpox article. I'd encourage all interested to join the discussion
there.
Ajpolino (
talk) 20:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
2022–2023 monkeypox outbreak → 2022–2023 mpox outbreak – This was proposed last November, but rejected with some editors feeling it was premature. Time has moved on. Since then, the monkeypox article was moved to mpox and there has been discussion on the Talk page for that article that unanimously supports switching from "monkeypox" to "mpox" in this article too: see Talk:Mpox#Related articles. However, that discussion has only involved 4 of us and we should get consensus here. Mpox and mpox outbreak is the terminology now used in WP:MEDRS-compliant sourcing, by WHO, by Nature, by Science, by articles in The Lancet, by the CDC, by CNN, etc. etc. Bondegezou ( talk) 09:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. No such user ( talk) 08:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
controversially: I suggest Ortizesp strike that comment. Bondegezou ( talk) 17:03, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Alternatively: returning the page whence it came, i.e. back to 2022 monkeypox outbreak as the end date of this disease is not known and it may extend into 2024 and beyond. There was no discussion to include 2023 as part of the title. Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 21:45, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Sometimes the subject of an article will undergo a change of name. When this occurs, we give extra weight to independent, reliable English-language sources ("reliable sources") written after the name change.This article has lots of citations from last summer, but the name was changed after those. As per policy, we should focus on recent usage. I gave examples of recent usage at the start of this discussion. Bondegezou ( talk) 08:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
As of today, the article shows 280 total deaths. However WHO only reports a total of 112 (see link below). This is a significant difference. I understand that this is a discrepancy in sources, and we have no control over it - but should we highlight this in the article?
(Thanks User:INgIEroC for regularly updating the statistics)
Bob ( talk) 18:22, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
The current title only reflects the viewpoint of the global north; it is an outbreak from endemic areas in tropical Africa to other countries where the disease has not been seen before. It is not the only outbreak of mpox which has taken place during 2022 or 2023 - there have been other outbreaks during this period in endemic areas. [1] [2] [3] These areas are have poor healthcare infrastructure and outbreaks are rarely documented.
The WHO is very careful to refer to the outbreak as either "Global" or "Multi-Country" - we should do the same.
Bob ( talk) 13:31, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Inspired by similar discussions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, do sources actually agree that the mpox outbreak, specifically, is over, or at least refer to it in past tense, or is it considered to be continuing at present? The PHEIC ended, yes, but so did the one for COVID-19, yet the COVID-19 pandemic article uses present tense and contains information up to the present. Normally I'd consider the PHEIC ending to be enough in the absence of anything indicating otherwise, but this article does contain case and death counts extending into March 2024. Therefore, we should either more clearly describe the outbreak as over and remove information about after that time as out of scope (perhaps belonging in the general mpox article), or a rename may be warranted, though I'd suggest "Mpox outbreak" over "2022-2024 mpox outbreak". Crossroads -talk- 05:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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2022–2023 mpox outbreak → Global mpox outbreak – Please see the previous two brief headings on this page. The global outbreak did not actually end in 2023 (see also [1]), and it is more properly described as the global outbreak to distinguish it from outbreaks in previously endemic regions. There is no need for naming specific years in the title; other disease outbreak/epidemic articles do not do this. Crossroads -talk- 18:48, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: Moved to 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, along with most per-country articles and stuff from Category:Monkeypox (to be submitted to WP:C2D). No such user ( talk) 18:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was:
Boldly putting this on hold as the result is basically contingent on the move request at the Mpox article. I'd encourage all interested to join the discussion
there.
Ajpolino (
talk) 20:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
2022–2023 monkeypox outbreak → 2022–2023 mpox outbreak – This was proposed last November, but rejected with some editors feeling it was premature. Time has moved on. Since then, the monkeypox article was moved to mpox and there has been discussion on the Talk page for that article that unanimously supports switching from "monkeypox" to "mpox" in this article too: see Talk:Mpox#Related articles. However, that discussion has only involved 4 of us and we should get consensus here. Mpox and mpox outbreak is the terminology now used in WP:MEDRS-compliant sourcing, by WHO, by Nature, by Science, by articles in The Lancet, by the CDC, by CNN, etc. etc. Bondegezou ( talk) 09:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. No such user ( talk) 08:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
controversially: I suggest Ortizesp strike that comment. Bondegezou ( talk) 17:03, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Alternatively: returning the page whence it came, i.e. back to 2022 monkeypox outbreak as the end date of this disease is not known and it may extend into 2024 and beyond. There was no discussion to include 2023 as part of the title. Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 21:45, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Sometimes the subject of an article will undergo a change of name. When this occurs, we give extra weight to independent, reliable English-language sources ("reliable sources") written after the name change.This article has lots of citations from last summer, but the name was changed after those. As per policy, we should focus on recent usage. I gave examples of recent usage at the start of this discussion. Bondegezou ( talk) 08:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
As of today, the article shows 280 total deaths. However WHO only reports a total of 112 (see link below). This is a significant difference. I understand that this is a discrepancy in sources, and we have no control over it - but should we highlight this in the article?
(Thanks User:INgIEroC for regularly updating the statistics)
Bob ( talk) 18:22, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
The current title only reflects the viewpoint of the global north; it is an outbreak from endemic areas in tropical Africa to other countries where the disease has not been seen before. It is not the only outbreak of mpox which has taken place during 2022 or 2023 - there have been other outbreaks during this period in endemic areas. [1] [2] [3] These areas are have poor healthcare infrastructure and outbreaks are rarely documented.
The WHO is very careful to refer to the outbreak as either "Global" or "Multi-Country" - we should do the same.
Bob ( talk) 13:31, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Inspired by similar discussions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, do sources actually agree that the mpox outbreak, specifically, is over, or at least refer to it in past tense, or is it considered to be continuing at present? The PHEIC ended, yes, but so did the one for COVID-19, yet the COVID-19 pandemic article uses present tense and contains information up to the present. Normally I'd consider the PHEIC ending to be enough in the absence of anything indicating otherwise, but this article does contain case and death counts extending into March 2024. Therefore, we should either more clearly describe the outbreak as over and remove information about after that time as out of scope (perhaps belonging in the general mpox article), or a rename may be warranted, though I'd suggest "Mpox outbreak" over "2022-2024 mpox outbreak". Crossroads -talk- 05:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
It has been proposed in this section that
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2022–2023 mpox outbreak → Global mpox outbreak – Please see the previous two brief headings on this page. The global outbreak did not actually end in 2023 (see also [1]), and it is more properly described as the global outbreak to distinguish it from outbreaks in previously endemic regions. There is no need for naming specific years in the title; other disease outbreak/epidemic articles do not do this. Crossroads -talk- 18:48, 22 April 2024 (UTC)