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The image on this template ( Image:Physcian examining a child.jpg) seems little misleading as the image description says nothing about flu and it is apparently a simple checkup. - Banyan Tree 20:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
It is not so much about what is "necessary" as it is about what is "desireable". If your concern is size ; how about reducing its size rather than deleting it? Say by half in terms of square whatever? WAS 4.250 02:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Size is an issue, but I guess what I'm really asking is similar to what Banyan was asking above: is this image a bit too generic for this template? The image could sensibly be applied to any medical template, and that indicates that in itself it's not very informative on the topic of flu. The distinction I quoted above seems to suggest a possible reason why it's appropriate, but I'm not sure I quite understand the reasoning, so if you could clarify I'd appreciate it. Regards, Ziggurat 03:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
An encyclopedic coverage of some diseases and their causitive agents goes hand in hand one-to-one. Other diseases like flu have a more complicated relationship with causitive agents and are best distinguished. On the H5N1 template we have an image of viruses. Look at it. are you now informed? of what? On the Flu template we have an image of medical practice. are you now informed? of what? What information should be conveyed by these two images? Should we have any images? Well, these articles have been critisized recently in print by reputable authorites that they are "too text oriented". So some image is better than no image, even if just to put a little color on the screen and set a more friendly mood. The two images convey virus-technical versus disease-medical I think. WAS 4.250 12:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
FYI : 69.6.162.160's template change was discussed at Talk:Flu research#Study: Implications for Influenza Surveillance. WAS 4.250 21:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Hope no one objects too strongly to my recent shuffling of your little template. Too-rah.-- ZayZayEM 07:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Should both, or one of Avian influenza and H5N1 be removed from this template.
I see no real purpose in keeping them in this short navbox. Links to these articles are found in the navbox on the bottom of all relevant articles, and also normally in the text of the articles themselves.
Neither
Equine influenza or
Swine influenza are isn't mentioned in a similar manner. Nor is surprisingly
Human flu. Template already appears a bit long. Removing Avian influenza at least will chop it down a little.
Please discuss.-- ZayZayEM ( talk) 07:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
What should be included on this tab?
Wikipedia is not a news outlet. It shoudl not be dictated by current events and popularity. As a tertairy resource, its main purpose is to be a reference tool - therfore should deal with things objectively.
I would prefer something the Influenza Genome sequencing project be included on this particular tab.
Perhaps another "current events" influenza tab could be created that features things like HPAI/H5N1 and A/H1N1? Or a tab that lists the varieties "swine", "avian", "equine" etc.-- ZayZayEM ( talk) 01:06, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Rewrote and ordered to give this template some structure. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Should we have a caption or not? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I think it looks better if the width is the same as the disease box. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:00, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
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s so the wrapping doesn't look funky. --
Cybercobra
(talk) 02:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)Asian Flu in 1957, and this was a pretty big flu pandemic (course nothing compared to 1918-1919). I've gone ahead and added this to our template.
What about the 1889–90 flu pandemic, it has an article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.59.229.106 ( talk) 04:33, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Is this right? I remember reading this page and seeing the origin of the Spanish flu is Kansas But upon reading today I notice alot of references to China Has Wiki been hacked?
2400:2413:5200:8E00:51B7:EA89:F18B:9A8B ( talk) 00:23, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Flu has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Remove "SARS-CoV (SARS-CoV-2)" from the "type" subsection and remove "COVID-19 pandemic" from the "pandemic" subsection. Coronaviruses are distinct from influenza viruses, and so the listing of coronaviruses and their corresponding pandemic(s) on this template is unfounded and misleading. MLN-172 ( talk) 16:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
edit semi-protected}}
template. Though to be honest this was an edit by
User:Joseagush yesterday, but in any case it is better if this is discussed here before starting reverts over it. @
Joseagush: Any comment on the matter?
RandomCanadian (
talk /
contribs) 16:31, 20 May 2020 (UTC)The result of the move request was: Moved. Interstellarity ( talk) 13:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Template:Flu → Template:Influenza sidebar – New title is a more clear description of what this template is, and is also standardised with {{ Influenza}} which is a navbox. Tom (LT) ( talk) 03:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. 2pou ( talk) 22:40, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Influenza sidebar template. |
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Medicine Template‑class | |||||||
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The image on this template ( Image:Physcian examining a child.jpg) seems little misleading as the image description says nothing about flu and it is apparently a simple checkup. - Banyan Tree 20:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
It is not so much about what is "necessary" as it is about what is "desireable". If your concern is size ; how about reducing its size rather than deleting it? Say by half in terms of square whatever? WAS 4.250 02:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Size is an issue, but I guess what I'm really asking is similar to what Banyan was asking above: is this image a bit too generic for this template? The image could sensibly be applied to any medical template, and that indicates that in itself it's not very informative on the topic of flu. The distinction I quoted above seems to suggest a possible reason why it's appropriate, but I'm not sure I quite understand the reasoning, so if you could clarify I'd appreciate it. Regards, Ziggurat 03:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
An encyclopedic coverage of some diseases and their causitive agents goes hand in hand one-to-one. Other diseases like flu have a more complicated relationship with causitive agents and are best distinguished. On the H5N1 template we have an image of viruses. Look at it. are you now informed? of what? On the Flu template we have an image of medical practice. are you now informed? of what? What information should be conveyed by these two images? Should we have any images? Well, these articles have been critisized recently in print by reputable authorites that they are "too text oriented". So some image is better than no image, even if just to put a little color on the screen and set a more friendly mood. The two images convey virus-technical versus disease-medical I think. WAS 4.250 12:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
FYI : 69.6.162.160's template change was discussed at Talk:Flu research#Study: Implications for Influenza Surveillance. WAS 4.250 21:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Hope no one objects too strongly to my recent shuffling of your little template. Too-rah.-- ZayZayEM 07:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Should both, or one of Avian influenza and H5N1 be removed from this template.
I see no real purpose in keeping them in this short navbox. Links to these articles are found in the navbox on the bottom of all relevant articles, and also normally in the text of the articles themselves.
Neither
Equine influenza or
Swine influenza are isn't mentioned in a similar manner. Nor is surprisingly
Human flu. Template already appears a bit long. Removing Avian influenza at least will chop it down a little.
Please discuss.-- ZayZayEM ( talk) 07:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
What should be included on this tab?
Wikipedia is not a news outlet. It shoudl not be dictated by current events and popularity. As a tertairy resource, its main purpose is to be a reference tool - therfore should deal with things objectively.
I would prefer something the Influenza Genome sequencing project be included on this particular tab.
Perhaps another "current events" influenza tab could be created that features things like HPAI/H5N1 and A/H1N1? Or a tab that lists the varieties "swine", "avian", "equine" etc.-- ZayZayEM ( talk) 01:06, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Rewrote and ordered to give this template some structure. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Should we have a caption or not? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I think it looks better if the width is the same as the disease box. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:00, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
<br />
s so the wrapping doesn't look funky. --
Cybercobra
(talk) 02:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)Asian Flu in 1957, and this was a pretty big flu pandemic (course nothing compared to 1918-1919). I've gone ahead and added this to our template.
What about the 1889–90 flu pandemic, it has an article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.59.229.106 ( talk) 04:33, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Is this right? I remember reading this page and seeing the origin of the Spanish flu is Kansas But upon reading today I notice alot of references to China Has Wiki been hacked?
2400:2413:5200:8E00:51B7:EA89:F18B:9A8B ( talk) 00:23, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Flu has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Remove "SARS-CoV (SARS-CoV-2)" from the "type" subsection and remove "COVID-19 pandemic" from the "pandemic" subsection. Coronaviruses are distinct from influenza viruses, and so the listing of coronaviruses and their corresponding pandemic(s) on this template is unfounded and misleading. MLN-172 ( talk) 16:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
edit semi-protected}}
template. Though to be honest this was an edit by
User:Joseagush yesterday, but in any case it is better if this is discussed here before starting reverts over it. @
Joseagush: Any comment on the matter?
RandomCanadian (
talk /
contribs) 16:31, 20 May 2020 (UTC)The result of the move request was: Moved. Interstellarity ( talk) 13:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Template:Flu → Template:Influenza sidebar – New title is a more clear description of what this template is, and is also standardised with {{ Influenza}} which is a navbox. Tom (LT) ( talk) 03:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. 2pou ( talk) 22:40, 5 August 2020 (UTC)