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based in part on Shi [Zhengli]'s emailed answers." ( RfC, December 2021)
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List of good sources with good coverage to help expand. Not necessarily for inclusion but just for consideration. Preferably not articles that just discuss a single quote/press conference. The long-style reporting would be even better. Feel free to edit directly to add to the list. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 17:39, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
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I am a microbiologist who has published on the origins of COVID-19. Apologies I am not familiar with the editing conventions of Wikipedia. I just have a suggestion to improve this paper. The citation to "treeshrews" should be removed. Here is my rationale:
1. In general, the paper being being cited for this claim is complete gibberish. The methodology used to reach the "treeshrew" claim is completely unsupported, and has never before been used in any context to identify the past hosts of a virus. It also simply makes no biological sense.
2. No other published works on COVID-19 have discussed "treeshrews" as a plausible intermediate host.
3. The journal the paper is published in has a impact factor <1.
4. The authors of the paper and not virologists and have not published prior on viral immunology.
I just wanted to bring this consideration to the attention of wikipedia editors. 69.250.21.91 ( talk) 17:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
A recent UNSW paper [5] gives the lab leak theory a higher propability than the Zoonosis. But this article is unserviceable, so I drop it here. Alexpl ( talk) 15:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
It is not clear whether this article was created as a proper WP:CFORK of that article or whether it can only function as a WP:POVFORK. Depending on the outcome of that determination, either a merge back to the main article or a proper summary of this article at the main article ought to be completed. jps ( talk) 16:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
arguments here have not been based on policywhich suggests, to me, that they felt that both the "merge" and "keep" arguments were not policy-based (something I find a bit surprising); this suggests to me that a merge discussion with stronger arguments would probably pass because the arguments against merging weren't policy-compliant. -- Aquillion ( talk) 17:10, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
The page title has a category error. This is an article about the virus' origin (as it says in the first sentence), not the "origin" of the disease. Everybody knows the disease is originated by infection with the virus. Bon courage ( talk) 06:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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based in part on Shi [Zhengli]'s emailed answers." ( RfC, December 2021)
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List of good sources with good coverage to help expand. Not necessarily for inclusion but just for consideration. Preferably not articles that just discuss a single quote/press conference. The long-style reporting would be even better. Feel free to edit directly to add to the list. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 17:39, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
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I am a microbiologist who has published on the origins of COVID-19. Apologies I am not familiar with the editing conventions of Wikipedia. I just have a suggestion to improve this paper. The citation to "treeshrews" should be removed. Here is my rationale:
1. In general, the paper being being cited for this claim is complete gibberish. The methodology used to reach the "treeshrew" claim is completely unsupported, and has never before been used in any context to identify the past hosts of a virus. It also simply makes no biological sense.
2. No other published works on COVID-19 have discussed "treeshrews" as a plausible intermediate host.
3. The journal the paper is published in has a impact factor <1.
4. The authors of the paper and not virologists and have not published prior on viral immunology.
I just wanted to bring this consideration to the attention of wikipedia editors. 69.250.21.91 ( talk) 17:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
A recent UNSW paper [5] gives the lab leak theory a higher propability than the Zoonosis. But this article is unserviceable, so I drop it here. Alexpl ( talk) 15:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
It is not clear whether this article was created as a proper WP:CFORK of that article or whether it can only function as a WP:POVFORK. Depending on the outcome of that determination, either a merge back to the main article or a proper summary of this article at the main article ought to be completed. jps ( talk) 16:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
arguments here have not been based on policywhich suggests, to me, that they felt that both the "merge" and "keep" arguments were not policy-based (something I find a bit surprising); this suggests to me that a merge discussion with stronger arguments would probably pass because the arguments against merging weren't policy-compliant. -- Aquillion ( talk) 17:10, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
The page title has a category error. This is an article about the virus' origin (as it says in the first sentence), not the "origin" of the disease. Everybody knows the disease is originated by infection with the virus. Bon courage ( talk) 06:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)