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Many many restaurants have closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Would Category:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry be appropriate to add to articles about restaurants that closed during the pandemic, or, would it be appropriate to create a subcategory along the lines of Category:Restaurants closed during the COVID-19 pandemic? Asking because I noticed User:Valereee added the category to Shady Grove (restaurant), but so far that's the only restaurant article in the category when many others apply. (Note: We do have Category:Restaurants disestablished in 2020.) --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:08, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
There is no consensus about whether to use Template:Current at the top of articles covered by this project. The de facto practice has been to include them for less-trafficked articles but not for the most heavily trafficked ones. Link 1Superseded by TfD and later practice - consult regular {{ Current}} guidance.
Please remove this line, since most of it is stricken, and the rest is just "do like normal". Including superseded instructions can be confusing, and "do like normal" doesn't need to be stated, since in the absence of instructions, people should know that they should keep doing like normal. 64.203.186.67 ( talk) 18:32, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Wow, so many entries related to COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic:
--- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:44, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
January 23rd, 11am-1pm E.S.T: Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE | |
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Hello WikiProject COVID-19 user! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 3rd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - Saturday, Jan 23rd, 2021 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how information on wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. Thank you for RSVPing.
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-- Wil540 art ( talk) 19:42, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Good morning fellow Wikipedians. With the new year upon us, I would like to return to a topic I raised last month, which is the use of categorization by month on Covid-19 by Location articles. For instance, the article COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama, is currently included in the following categories (among others):
This seems to me to be overcategorization; I think that the "2020 in Alabama" and "2021 in Alabama" categories should be sufficient. Unless anyone has a rationale to the contrary, I am going to start trimming the month categories from our Covid by Location articles soon. Thanks, and let's discuss as appropriate. KConWiki ( talk) 15:18, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
There is again agitation to push for the credibility of the "lab leak" origin for SARS-CoV-2 at Talk:Wuhan Institute of Virology and Talk:Misinformation_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic. After many months of dealing with this I am honestly tired of it. Hemiauchenia ( talk) 19:06, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Back in March I asked about the UK countries, now such articles exist, see Category:COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and each country (unfortunately the England articles have somewhat become forks of the UK ones) has its own category and timeline article. I'm now wandering about if we should have separate articles for each (or some) counties such as COVID-19 pandemic in Essex or COVID-19 pandemic on the Isle of Wight? We have decided to create separate articles for US states and English counties are somewhat similar in recognizability to the US states but have much less powers than them. I'd note that with respect to the likes of Essex the article (as most articles do) should cover the whole geographical county (meaning Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock are included) not just the area covered by Essex County Council. I'm not incredibly keen on creating lots of sub articles for a topic though. The Isle of Wight might be an interesting one since it was the lowest of the 314 districts (though the Isles of Scilly data had maybe been merged with Cornwall) at the beginning of December but as of data from 29 December-5.January it is the 21st highest (note that the Isle of Wight is both a county and district) Thoughts? @ Another Believer and This is Paul: Crouch, Swale ( talk) 18:25, 11 January 2021 (UTC) And more stories [1] 71-fold increase which says "13th highest infection rate in the UK this week" though its not clear if that's by county or district. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 19:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
I think that it may be a good idea to create articles for some English regions, somewhere like Cornwell has had quite a different experience of Covid-19 than somewhere like Manchester for example. At the same time you wouldn't want to create a handful of regional articles that aren't really needed. It might make sense to create drafts for articles covering places which have had a more eventful pandemic and see if there is enough information for a decent length page. Llewee ( talk) 01:40, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Symptoms of COVID-19. The current image depicting common symptoms can be dangerously misleading. The percentages are completely made up. Does anyone have the time to edit this image and remove the percentages? {{u| Gtoffoletto}} talk 18:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
In all, seven of the top 25 articles were directly related to COVID-19, and just these alone recorded around 225 million pageviews.-- Moxy 🍁 16:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
I created an entry on compile data on the various investigations into the origin of Covid-19.
Question: can Chinese state media be considered reliable sources for reports on their investigations? So far, I have covered it only on the provincial level (with WHO as the source), but there were subsequent investigations by the central government, though details are sparse in English media.
For those who would like to help with this entry, I am currently trying to figure out the link between the WHO investigation and the Lancet commission, as they seem to be coordinated, but have different team members. I am not sure what can be said of the US government investigation, as the real details are likely classified, and it can be easily politicized in the last days of Trump.
ScrupulousScribe ( talk) 08:53, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
There appears to be some debate about the Namaste Trump event and its link to the spread of COVID-19. I’d appreciate anyone with experience with this kind of debate to please moderate the article as some editors seem to have political biases. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 18:38, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
There is a draft waiting at AfC about a vaccine in development. I did not review it as I was unable to locate anything about notability for vaccines (if they are notable when approved or still in development). Thought I would reach out here in case anyone has an interest in reviewing it. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 05:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Someone needs to watchlist COVID-20 ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), this redirect keeps being repointed to something other than the determination of the RfD. -- 70.31.205.108 ( talk) 08:50, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
FYI, SARS-2 ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been nominated for discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 17#SARS-2 -- 70.31.205.108 ( talk) 09:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
At Category:Variants of SARS-CoV-2 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), there is an enormous explanation section at the top that explains why the category is named the way it is. This seems like it should be a talk page infobox, for editors, and not on the user facing subjectpage for the readership. -- 70.31.205.108 ( talk) 09:13, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
An article on Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 has recently been created. Editors here may be interested in looking at it. - Thucydides411 ( talk) 11:57, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
See Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its talk page to help clarify the purpose of this page. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:43, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Part of this is related to Investigations into the origin of COVID-19. There is confusion about whether this article is meant to be a summary of investigations (like it says in the title) or about the origin itself (which is currently described in a section of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:38, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Community input welcome!
XOR'easter ( talk) 15:12, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, in the past several weeks, as part of the ongoing partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation,WHO has shared infographics explaining the COVID-19 vaccines on Commons. We know that much of the content writing in the community is shifting towards topics related to the Vaccine rollouts and increasing variability in the virus . If you need additional graphics, media or reports from WHO, they may be able to release them: you can make additional requests of their team at commons:Commons:World_Health_Organization. Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 19:55, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I've expanded the redirect COVAX into (the beginnings of) a full article for the initiative after the absence of such an article was raised in the discord. I bring this up here to get some more of the collaboration that has built up the rest of our COVID-19 coverage over the last 13 months going on. – ♠Vami _IV†♠ 22:02, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I recently created a page for Howard Zucker, the current commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. He has been a major public face during the pandemic in the state of New York, as well as the wider American media market. Any help with the article would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 01:01, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
February 6th, 11am-1pm E.S.T: Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE | |
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Hello! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 3rd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - Saturday, Feb 6th, 2021 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how information on wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. We'd love to see you.
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-- Wil540 art ( talk) 20:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi all. With the emergence and movements of new CoV2 strains, a sequencing organisation ( Mako medical) has agreed to in principle to release its data openly, particularly on detection of different strains in different regions of the USA. I also hope this would set a good example for other organisations & companies in other countries to similarly release their data openly. The plan is to peer review their methods and data via v:WikiJournal of Medicine for quality control and to provide more in-detail records for specialists, and then to have a summary table in the C19 in the USA article (where rows = US state, columns = strain, cells = date of confirmation). It might also be worth noting the information in the individual state-by-state articles given the level of granular detail typically in those pages. What do people think? A followup topic for Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19 may be how best to structure strain first detection per location data in wikidata. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:39, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Template:COVID-19 testing by country subdivision has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. — UnladenSwallow ( talk) 17:44, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
This wire service story might be useful to describe the WHO's investigation into the origin of COVID-19:
Fujiyama, Emily Wang; Moritsugu, Ken (2021-02-10). "EXPLAINER: What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan". AP News. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:37, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
This is a very useful report on excess deaths, the main measure which will likely be ultimately used in reflecting on the pandemic. Especially notice the extremely high deaths in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.....something I do not think is currently being reflected on wikipedia. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v1.full.pdf Jopal22 ( talk) 22:20, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a requested move here, since it seemed to me the current solution for coronavirus variants article titles is completely out of touch with the existing article title policy. This might have further implications for other similarly named articles, which I did not expect to be at equally obtuse names. Your opinion is welcomed. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 13:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Feel free to leave feedback in the peer review for American Rescue Plan, which is part of this project. If you guys have any suggestions, feel free to let me know there. -- AmericanRescuePlan2021 ( talk) 07:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
I wrote a draft entry about the topic of the Emergence of COVID-19 Outbreak, which has enough notability. In my opinion, having the independent entry would gather in one convenient place many pieces of information currently dispersed at the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e. epidemiological background, 2019 History), SARS-CoV-2 (i.e. Virology section's reservoir and zoonotic origin, and pyhogenetics and taxonomy), and Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 pages. It has also been stressed that the current entry on the Covid-19 pandemic should not be larger, and there is no room for inclusion of the many nuances of the emergence situation (reservoir, intermediate host, zoonotic event, etc). Should I move the draft into article space, thus creating it? Post your comments and opinion at the talk page here, please. Forich ( talk) 15:30, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
I have opened an RfC at the talk page of the above article, here. Editors of this WikiProject will most surely want to participate. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 14:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 #RfC on use of COVID-19 editnotice to answer the question "Should admins have the ability to place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?" -- RexxS ( talk) 22:02, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
So many of them... I don't know if all the sources there are acceptable. I also don't know if this is always the same person. I've left them a talk page message. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 16:11, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
There's been a proposal to remove the Symptoms of COVID-19 article and merge it into Coronavirus disease 2019. The article hasn't been expanded much since it was split a few months ago, but there's clearly a lot to write about this topic. I'm going to take some time to expand it myself, but it would be great if I weren't the only one doing it. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) ( talk) 04:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Help needed. This article is pretty important and we need more experienced editors to trim a lot of bloat and remove the abundant WP:MEDRS violations. -- {{u| Gtoffoletto}} talk 13:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Primary sources and pre-prints have been accepted for a long time because in the apocalypse, there are no rules (listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19#Food_for_thought). Sources with pre-prints are listed under Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Sources, including not only medRxiv/bioRxiv but also WHO global research database and Semantic Scholar. Early results should simply be presented as such. Limiting the article to secondary and tertiary sources will require the removal of much, if not most, of the information it currently contains. -- Fernando Trebien ( talk) 13:07, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
What do you think about adding in a list of people vaccinated? Such as world leaders, celebrities and so on. Adding the vaccine brand would be good as well.
Some possible complications I can think of however - future re-vaccinations
Buggy 88 ( talk) 15:41, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that this image was put on Commons back in January. It's used on en-WP only so far for the portal, but it looks like a very good image, so we may want to add it elsewhere. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:59, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
A small recent thread at COVID-19 pandemic is a good reminder: alas, as we are past the one-year point, articles that include dates without the year should have the year added and comply with MOS:CURRENT. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:42, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
There is an interesting article on the Politico website by Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin that suggests that there is some evidence that the virus did in fact escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that the Chinese government covered it up. I am not one to fall for conspiracy theories, but this article looks like it is from a reliable source, and it brings up some good points. If the lab is responsible the Chinese had a strong incentive to deny responsibility, as they would be liable for negligence and millions dead. I am interested to know if anyone else has thoughts on this, and if it is credible at all. Calamagrostis ( talk) 00:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
I've created a draft article about the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in preparation for when it finally does end. If there is anything any of you would like to contribute, please do so. X-Editor ( talk) 20:45, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
I've just had a look at
RaTG13 and noticed that some of the citations were duplicated, along with the often times excessive listings of authors. The first requires manual look-up; but the second can be made consistent in an article by using |display-authors=3
(or some other small enough number). This kind of thing may or may not affect other articles in the topic, and of course these may have many more references than this relatively short one. I don't know if using {{
sfn}} would have been a better option; though now it's not worth the effort to change all over. Anyway, additional eyes looking for this issue would be appreciated. Cheers,
RandomCanadian (
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contribs)
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At Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and on the TP. Attention from the usual MEDRS conscious editors welcome. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 17:40, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
I have prepared a draft article about Jay Varma Draft:Jay Varma who for the past year has helped lead New York City’s response to Covid-19 as the chief medical advisor to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. I am hoping for input and advice from members of this project about how to improve this draft. Since millions of New Yorkers rely on his decisions, including the closing/opening of the NYC public schools, I think it’s important there be an article about him now -- he is constantly quoted by the NY Times. I should disclose that I have a conflict of interest because I have a personal relationship with Varma, which is why I am seeking independent advice about how to make the article better. SugarSpice202112 ( talk) 18:18, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
I will no longer be active on this Wikipedia or any WMF project. I urge any members of this WikiProject, WikiProject Economics or any editor who edited the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to re-nominate it for GA-status if necessary and if it is ready to be nominated. That said, farewell! ARP2021 ( talk) 00:45, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Many articles about helping address loss of smell due to covid-19 have been published in the past few months. It would probably be valuable to the world have reliable content about that easy to find so I made Smell training. It is very barebones right now and additions would be appreciated. RayScript ( talk) 18:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
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Do discuss here about my recent updation to the COVID-19 navbox template image. Some feedback would be appreciated about whether I did compile the images together smoothly. I dunno if I did the best job, but I tried... Qwertyxp2000 ( talk | contribs) 04:40, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Possibly of interest to project members: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lorna Breen
Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:13, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
I have made {{
User COVID-19 vaccine}}, which is a userbox that you can use to show that you've received a COVID-19 vaccine. It also features a |first-dose=
parameter if you are waiting on a second dose.
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Mz7 ( talk) 04:20, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Just a warning that, despite the talk page even saying it's not a good place for beginners, a(nother) WikiEd student - Rishad98 - has decided to make COVID-19 pandemic their article. And this is their sandbox of proposed changes... so who's going to tell them to pick literally anything else, and then give the instructor a trout for letting them think they could handle such an article? Kingsif ( talk) 14:52, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
If anyone wants to see how it works to train health professionals to edit Wikipedia then check out this report.
The Wiki Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization which supports universities and researchers in editing Wikipedia. They are best known for supporting Wikipedia classroom editing projects and for their meta:Programs & Events Dashboard which is popular for tracking classes who edit Wikipedia articles as a group.
In this report just published, they describe the results of their program to support scholars and scientists in editing Wikipedia articles related to COVID-19.
16 Wikipedia editors made 328 edits to 44 articles. In those edits they added ~13k words and 178 citations to sources. Those articles got 2.7 million pageviews after their edits.
Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:05, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Do we have any folks here who are good at editing images? Lineage P.1 has a map from 8 February, but things have moved on a bit since then. The current map shows local, imported, or unknown transmission. It might be worth taking a different approach to show number of cases (either absolute or relative to population) as is used at Lineage B.1.1.7 as the data may be easier to collate, eg: Lineage_P.1#Statistics. Richard Nevell ( talk) 17:40, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
This question is triggered by the insertion of a new Research section in Atorvastatin and Apixaban by fellow editor Cripplemac, mentioning that they are being researched in post-COVID-19 patients, but it pertains to other drug articles as well: When is it worth mentioning in a drug article if the respective drug is being or has been tested in trials on infected patients (obviously without having entered general use)?
The source is respectable, and it is an NHS trial; however, in my opinion, the fact that atorvastatin and apixaban are being evaluated for post-COVID-19 patients, with no results having been reported yet, is, given the great importance of any information on COVID-19, just not important enough to be included in their articles. Colchicine does have some positive preliminary findings in a trial, but, again, the fact that it is being studied in COVID-19 does not add much to the article. Any thoughts? NikosGouliaros ( talk) 10:54, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, what was/is the outcome of this discussion? I'm not sure when my original edit should be added, but i found it interesting-- Cripplemac ( talk) 19:20, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
The following articles on Covid-19 have become outdated and updates would be appreciated:
X-Editor ( talk) 22:01, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone add/update about new stain named Lineage B.1.617 [1] [2] at the page Variants of SARS-CoV-2. Thank you. Run n Fly ( talk) 10:13, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
References
It's already added Sitaphul ( talk) 19:54, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. BlackholeWA ( talk) 06:49, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
It will be very helpful if someone can provide a map similar to File:B.1.1.7 Cases by country as of 25 Mar 2021.svg for Lineage B.1.617. Thank you. Run n Fly ( talk) 09:47, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone well versed with the variant's notability, add about new variant B.1.618 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] that been supposed to be originated in India and has been found in US, Switzerland, Singapore and Finland as per reports [7] to page Variants of SARS-CoV-2 or start a standalone article. Thank you. Run n Fly ( talk) 07:07, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia pages on Covid-19 in India are highly outdated especially the ones on the pandemic of every state. There is a complete lack of data / info between September 2020 to March 2021. Considering the second wave of the pandemic, we really need to update the page. Are any Indian wikipedians (any other nationality is fine) are interested in collaborating to update these pages? -- Sitaphul ( talk) 12:49, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
I encourage project members to help improve articles in Category:COVID-19 pandemic in India. These entries are especially important this time given current conditions. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:47, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Italy § Proposed merge of International reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy into COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 19:27, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § How should the COVID-19 pandemic be handled in article history sections?. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 21:44, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
I created a redirect at Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) that links to Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia#History, as this was them the only place I could find TTS mentioned on WP. Then I found the Post-vaccination embolic and thrombotic events page, which may be a better redirect? TTS is not specifically mentioned there, by that name. 220 of ßorg 02:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
Dear fellow Wikipedians, i am a native speaker of german, i have limited abilities in English language (vocabulary, grammar and style). Please take a look at my edit in the COG-UK article: COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium#Strategic Goals (new section/chapter). In some cases i have indicated alternatives of wording or a german-language-version in inline-comments, always starting with a typographic slash like here: <!--/. Thank you. -- Himbeerbläuling ( talk) 11:15, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
I need your opinions at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China#Mainland?. Thanks. — hueman1 ( talk • contributions) 12:59, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
The current article has severe issues of WP:PROSELINE. I've tried to trim some of the more obvious bits, but further efforts and more watchful eyes would be appreciated. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 16:00, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Please also take into account all the sources, not just the one CDC page which is being selectively quoted. Talk:COVID-19 pandemic
Should COVID-19 Pandemic's Lead state the following when explaining transmission modes.
Option 1 Transmission of COVID-19 commonly occurs when people are exposed to respiratory droplets or small airborne particles exhaled by an infected person. Those particles may be inhaled or may reach the mouth, nose, or eyes of a person directly (i.e. being coughed on) or through touching with contaminated hands. OR Option 2 COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets or small airborne particles. Transmission can also occur if splashed or sprayed with contaminated fluids, and uncommonly via contaminated surfaces. OR Option 3 COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets or small airborne particles. It can also spread if infectious respiratory fluids, such as from coughing, land on people's eyes nose or mouth, and rarely via surfaces. OR Option 4 Please insert |
-- 61.68.81.220 ( talk) 13:04, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Could we move the strikethrough from Template:Current_COVID-19_Project_Consensus? It would be much more readable without it. Vpab15 ( talk) 15:42, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
There's probably a better/more official source, but https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/covid-vaccines-iran-sweden-brazil-bosnia-georgia.html has some information about vaccination rates in multiple countries, in case anyone is looking for a source that addresses more than a single country. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey WikiProject COVID-19 members. I recently proposed an idea for a WikiProject for 2021. COVID-19 has been happening for a while now, and it is still happening in 2021 and the proposed WikiProject is dedicated to 2021 articles. So I thought I would drop by and let you know about the proposal. Feel free to drop your opinions here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/2021. Elijahandskip ( talk) 19:20, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Number of Mucormycosis cases are rising rapidly due to COVID-19, especially in India. The article needs update and improvements with more medical sources. Please do update. - Nizil ( talk) 06:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
The Independent SAGE article is attracting a certain amount of vandalism lately. Can I ask a few people to watchlist it? Thanks. Bondegezou ( talk) 10:12, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
If anyone on this WikiProject could help out the page Mask refusal, I'd appreciate that. I've added some sources to the article but I'm not an expert in what counts as WP:MEDRS. (Also, I'm not sure about the name of the article. However, I do think it is an important topic for a Wikipedia article that shouldn't be deleted.) -- Bangalamania ( talk) 14:53, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Please see WT:WikiProject Disability#Post-COVID19 disability thanks Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:38, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
This is a preprint for now, and subject to change before publication. If anyone has thoughts then post here and ping the authors to check.
I expect the authors would especially appreciate criticism or pointing out anything that does not read well from a wiki community perspective. Brief comments and casual feedback are welcome. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
The articles ranged from “Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus”, “Coronavirus packaging signal” and “Acute respiratory distress syndrome”, to “Charles Prince of Whales”- is this supposed to be " Charles, Prince of Wales" perhaps?
a special COVID-19 “Wiki project” was set up at the beginning of March 2020 offering editors a list of “trusted” sources to use (20) - first and foremost was the WHO website, and then moves on, where it might be appropriate to discuss how our "sources list" tab came about (and perhaps the fact WHO is at the top not out of primacy but standard formatting unless I'm mistaken) - that this list was created slightly more "official" than the project, by Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO John Cummings.
those [Wikipedia articles] with the lowest scores (Supplementary Figure S2B) seemed to focus almost exclusively on social aspects of the pandemic and its immediate outcome, and gives some examples, but doesn't discuss whether it really would be appropriate for the social COVID-19 Wikipedia articles to have academic sources - and, in fact, by ending the paragraph saying one article (on gubernatorial response)
made scarce use of coronavirus-related research to inform its content, citing a single academic paper related to laws of quarantine among its 244 footnotes, does seem to be suggesting that these articles should be academic-based. I'm not going to pass judgment, but perhaps some expansion in the discussion of findings here. I don't doubt there may be academic reviews of how governments handled the pandemic, what the impact on society has been, that could be used, but those sources don't even seem to have been included in the article's sample: the methodology notes that it only looked at biomedical COVID-19 academic sources (
a search of EuroPMC using COVID-19, SARS-CoV2, SARS-nCoV19 keywords was performed; see Europe PubMed Central), not those in social sciences. So it seems ...dubious... to be concluding that the social Wikipedia articles are less scientific at large, when only using medical sources to determine this. (I mean, it's probably an accurate conclusion, since "social" articles aren't bound by MEDRS, but not one I think can be made with the limited data)
the main coronavirus article (“COVID-19 pandemic”) which was placed on the English Wikipedia’s homepage, and later on, in a special banner located on the top of every single article in Englishseems to be referring to the ITN box and the WMF response banner. It may be worthy to note that the first of these efforts was volunteer-driven (and part of a separate process to WikiProject COVID-19, at WT:ITN; archived creation discussion) and "permanent", while the latter was an executive overhead and the banner had an "X" button to dismiss (and was quite unpopular; archived discussion).
I have now opened a new case regarding recent, persistent, widespread disruption at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Origins_of_COVID-19. Feel free to participate, the given list of participants is non-exhaustive. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 01:43, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
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Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 | Archive 16 |
Many many restaurants have closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Would Category:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry be appropriate to add to articles about restaurants that closed during the pandemic, or, would it be appropriate to create a subcategory along the lines of Category:Restaurants closed during the COVID-19 pandemic? Asking because I noticed User:Valereee added the category to Shady Grove (restaurant), but so far that's the only restaurant article in the category when many others apply. (Note: We do have Category:Restaurants disestablished in 2020.) --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:08, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
There is no consensus about whether to use Template:Current at the top of articles covered by this project. The de facto practice has been to include them for less-trafficked articles but not for the most heavily trafficked ones. Link 1Superseded by TfD and later practice - consult regular {{ Current}} guidance.
Please remove this line, since most of it is stricken, and the rest is just "do like normal". Including superseded instructions can be confusing, and "do like normal" doesn't need to be stated, since in the absence of instructions, people should know that they should keep doing like normal. 64.203.186.67 ( talk) 18:32, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Wow, so many entries related to COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic:
--- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:44, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
January 23rd, 11am-1pm E.S.T: Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE | |
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Hello WikiProject COVID-19 user! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 3rd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - Saturday, Jan 23rd, 2021 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how information on wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. Thank you for RSVPing.
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-- Wil540 art ( talk) 19:42, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Good morning fellow Wikipedians. With the new year upon us, I would like to return to a topic I raised last month, which is the use of categorization by month on Covid-19 by Location articles. For instance, the article COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama, is currently included in the following categories (among others):
This seems to me to be overcategorization; I think that the "2020 in Alabama" and "2021 in Alabama" categories should be sufficient. Unless anyone has a rationale to the contrary, I am going to start trimming the month categories from our Covid by Location articles soon. Thanks, and let's discuss as appropriate. KConWiki ( talk) 15:18, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
There is again agitation to push for the credibility of the "lab leak" origin for SARS-CoV-2 at Talk:Wuhan Institute of Virology and Talk:Misinformation_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic. After many months of dealing with this I am honestly tired of it. Hemiauchenia ( talk) 19:06, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Back in March I asked about the UK countries, now such articles exist, see Category:COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and each country (unfortunately the England articles have somewhat become forks of the UK ones) has its own category and timeline article. I'm now wandering about if we should have separate articles for each (or some) counties such as COVID-19 pandemic in Essex or COVID-19 pandemic on the Isle of Wight? We have decided to create separate articles for US states and English counties are somewhat similar in recognizability to the US states but have much less powers than them. I'd note that with respect to the likes of Essex the article (as most articles do) should cover the whole geographical county (meaning Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock are included) not just the area covered by Essex County Council. I'm not incredibly keen on creating lots of sub articles for a topic though. The Isle of Wight might be an interesting one since it was the lowest of the 314 districts (though the Isles of Scilly data had maybe been merged with Cornwall) at the beginning of December but as of data from 29 December-5.January it is the 21st highest (note that the Isle of Wight is both a county and district) Thoughts? @ Another Believer and This is Paul: Crouch, Swale ( talk) 18:25, 11 January 2021 (UTC) And more stories [1] 71-fold increase which says "13th highest infection rate in the UK this week" though its not clear if that's by county or district. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 19:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
I think that it may be a good idea to create articles for some English regions, somewhere like Cornwell has had quite a different experience of Covid-19 than somewhere like Manchester for example. At the same time you wouldn't want to create a handful of regional articles that aren't really needed. It might make sense to create drafts for articles covering places which have had a more eventful pandemic and see if there is enough information for a decent length page. Llewee ( talk) 01:40, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Symptoms of COVID-19. The current image depicting common symptoms can be dangerously misleading. The percentages are completely made up. Does anyone have the time to edit this image and remove the percentages? {{u| Gtoffoletto}} talk 18:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
In all, seven of the top 25 articles were directly related to COVID-19, and just these alone recorded around 225 million pageviews.-- Moxy 🍁 16:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
I created an entry on compile data on the various investigations into the origin of Covid-19.
Question: can Chinese state media be considered reliable sources for reports on their investigations? So far, I have covered it only on the provincial level (with WHO as the source), but there were subsequent investigations by the central government, though details are sparse in English media.
For those who would like to help with this entry, I am currently trying to figure out the link between the WHO investigation and the Lancet commission, as they seem to be coordinated, but have different team members. I am not sure what can be said of the US government investigation, as the real details are likely classified, and it can be easily politicized in the last days of Trump.
ScrupulousScribe ( talk) 08:53, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
There appears to be some debate about the Namaste Trump event and its link to the spread of COVID-19. I’d appreciate anyone with experience with this kind of debate to please moderate the article as some editors seem to have political biases. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 18:38, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
There is a draft waiting at AfC about a vaccine in development. I did not review it as I was unable to locate anything about notability for vaccines (if they are notable when approved or still in development). Thought I would reach out here in case anyone has an interest in reviewing it. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 05:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Someone needs to watchlist COVID-20 ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), this redirect keeps being repointed to something other than the determination of the RfD. -- 70.31.205.108 ( talk) 08:50, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
FYI, SARS-2 ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been nominated for discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 17#SARS-2 -- 70.31.205.108 ( talk) 09:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
At Category:Variants of SARS-CoV-2 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), there is an enormous explanation section at the top that explains why the category is named the way it is. This seems like it should be a talk page infobox, for editors, and not on the user facing subjectpage for the readership. -- 70.31.205.108 ( talk) 09:13, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
An article on Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 has recently been created. Editors here may be interested in looking at it. - Thucydides411 ( talk) 11:57, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
See Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its talk page to help clarify the purpose of this page. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:43, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Part of this is related to Investigations into the origin of COVID-19. There is confusion about whether this article is meant to be a summary of investigations (like it says in the title) or about the origin itself (which is currently described in a section of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:38, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Community input welcome!
XOR'easter ( talk) 15:12, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, in the past several weeks, as part of the ongoing partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation,WHO has shared infographics explaining the COVID-19 vaccines on Commons. We know that much of the content writing in the community is shifting towards topics related to the Vaccine rollouts and increasing variability in the virus . If you need additional graphics, media or reports from WHO, they may be able to release them: you can make additional requests of their team at commons:Commons:World_Health_Organization. Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 19:55, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I've expanded the redirect COVAX into (the beginnings of) a full article for the initiative after the absence of such an article was raised in the discord. I bring this up here to get some more of the collaboration that has built up the rest of our COVID-19 coverage over the last 13 months going on. – ♠Vami _IV†♠ 22:02, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I recently created a page for Howard Zucker, the current commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. He has been a major public face during the pandemic in the state of New York, as well as the wider American media market. Any help with the article would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley ( talk) 01:01, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
February 6th, 11am-1pm E.S.T: Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - ONLINE | |
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Hello! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 3rd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - Saturday, Feb 6th, 2021 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how information on wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. We'd love to see you.
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-- Wil540 art ( talk) 20:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi all. With the emergence and movements of new CoV2 strains, a sequencing organisation ( Mako medical) has agreed to in principle to release its data openly, particularly on detection of different strains in different regions of the USA. I also hope this would set a good example for other organisations & companies in other countries to similarly release their data openly. The plan is to peer review their methods and data via v:WikiJournal of Medicine for quality control and to provide more in-detail records for specialists, and then to have a summary table in the C19 in the USA article (where rows = US state, columns = strain, cells = date of confirmation). It might also be worth noting the information in the individual state-by-state articles given the level of granular detail typically in those pages. What do people think? A followup topic for Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19 may be how best to structure strain first detection per location data in wikidata. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:39, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Template:COVID-19 testing by country subdivision has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. — UnladenSwallow ( talk) 17:44, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
This wire service story might be useful to describe the WHO's investigation into the origin of COVID-19:
Fujiyama, Emily Wang; Moritsugu, Ken (2021-02-10). "EXPLAINER: What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan". AP News. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:37, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
This is a very useful report on excess deaths, the main measure which will likely be ultimately used in reflecting on the pandemic. Especially notice the extremely high deaths in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.....something I do not think is currently being reflected on wikipedia. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v1.full.pdf Jopal22 ( talk) 22:20, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
I have started a requested move here, since it seemed to me the current solution for coronavirus variants article titles is completely out of touch with the existing article title policy. This might have further implications for other similarly named articles, which I did not expect to be at equally obtuse names. Your opinion is welcomed. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 13:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Feel free to leave feedback in the peer review for American Rescue Plan, which is part of this project. If you guys have any suggestions, feel free to let me know there. -- AmericanRescuePlan2021 ( talk) 07:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
I wrote a draft entry about the topic of the Emergence of COVID-19 Outbreak, which has enough notability. In my opinion, having the independent entry would gather in one convenient place many pieces of information currently dispersed at the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e. epidemiological background, 2019 History), SARS-CoV-2 (i.e. Virology section's reservoir and zoonotic origin, and pyhogenetics and taxonomy), and Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 pages. It has also been stressed that the current entry on the Covid-19 pandemic should not be larger, and there is no room for inclusion of the many nuances of the emergence situation (reservoir, intermediate host, zoonotic event, etc). Should I move the draft into article space, thus creating it? Post your comments and opinion at the talk page here, please. Forich ( talk) 15:30, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
I have opened an RfC at the talk page of the above article, here. Editors of this WikiProject will most surely want to participate. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 14:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 #RfC on use of COVID-19 editnotice to answer the question "Should admins have the ability to place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?" -- RexxS ( talk) 22:02, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
So many of them... I don't know if all the sources there are acceptable. I also don't know if this is always the same person. I've left them a talk page message. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 16:11, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
There's been a proposal to remove the Symptoms of COVID-19 article and merge it into Coronavirus disease 2019. The article hasn't been expanded much since it was split a few months ago, but there's clearly a lot to write about this topic. I'm going to take some time to expand it myself, but it would be great if I weren't the only one doing it. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) ( talk) 04:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Help needed. This article is pretty important and we need more experienced editors to trim a lot of bloat and remove the abundant WP:MEDRS violations. -- {{u| Gtoffoletto}} talk 13:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Primary sources and pre-prints have been accepted for a long time because in the apocalypse, there are no rules (listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19#Food_for_thought). Sources with pre-prints are listed under Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Sources, including not only medRxiv/bioRxiv but also WHO global research database and Semantic Scholar. Early results should simply be presented as such. Limiting the article to secondary and tertiary sources will require the removal of much, if not most, of the information it currently contains. -- Fernando Trebien ( talk) 13:07, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
What do you think about adding in a list of people vaccinated? Such as world leaders, celebrities and so on. Adding the vaccine brand would be good as well.
Some possible complications I can think of however - future re-vaccinations
Buggy 88 ( talk) 15:41, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that this image was put on Commons back in January. It's used on en-WP only so far for the portal, but it looks like a very good image, so we may want to add it elsewhere. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:59, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
A small recent thread at COVID-19 pandemic is a good reminder: alas, as we are past the one-year point, articles that include dates without the year should have the year added and comply with MOS:CURRENT. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:42, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
There is an interesting article on the Politico website by Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin that suggests that there is some evidence that the virus did in fact escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that the Chinese government covered it up. I am not one to fall for conspiracy theories, but this article looks like it is from a reliable source, and it brings up some good points. If the lab is responsible the Chinese had a strong incentive to deny responsibility, as they would be liable for negligence and millions dead. I am interested to know if anyone else has thoughts on this, and if it is credible at all. Calamagrostis ( talk) 00:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
I've created a draft article about the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in preparation for when it finally does end. If there is anything any of you would like to contribute, please do so. X-Editor ( talk) 20:45, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
I've just had a look at
RaTG13 and noticed that some of the citations were duplicated, along with the often times excessive listings of authors. The first requires manual look-up; but the second can be made consistent in an article by using |display-authors=3
(or some other small enough number). This kind of thing may or may not affect other articles in the topic, and of course these may have many more references than this relatively short one. I don't know if using {{
sfn}} would have been a better option; though now it's not worth the effort to change all over. Anyway, additional eyes looking for this issue would be appreciated. Cheers,
RandomCanadian (
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contribs)
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At Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and on the TP. Attention from the usual MEDRS conscious editors welcome. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 17:40, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
I have prepared a draft article about Jay Varma Draft:Jay Varma who for the past year has helped lead New York City’s response to Covid-19 as the chief medical advisor to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. I am hoping for input and advice from members of this project about how to improve this draft. Since millions of New Yorkers rely on his decisions, including the closing/opening of the NYC public schools, I think it’s important there be an article about him now -- he is constantly quoted by the NY Times. I should disclose that I have a conflict of interest because I have a personal relationship with Varma, which is why I am seeking independent advice about how to make the article better. SugarSpice202112 ( talk) 18:18, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
I will no longer be active on this Wikipedia or any WMF project. I urge any members of this WikiProject, WikiProject Economics or any editor who edited the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to re-nominate it for GA-status if necessary and if it is ready to be nominated. That said, farewell! ARP2021 ( talk) 00:45, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Many articles about helping address loss of smell due to covid-19 have been published in the past few months. It would probably be valuable to the world have reliable content about that easy to find so I made Smell training. It is very barebones right now and additions would be appreciated. RayScript ( talk) 18:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
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Do discuss here about my recent updation to the COVID-19 navbox template image. Some feedback would be appreciated about whether I did compile the images together smoothly. I dunno if I did the best job, but I tried... Qwertyxp2000 ( talk | contribs) 04:40, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Possibly of interest to project members: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lorna Breen
Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:13, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
I have made {{
User COVID-19 vaccine}}, which is a userbox that you can use to show that you've received a COVID-19 vaccine. It also features a |first-dose=
parameter if you are waiting on a second dose.
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Mz7 ( talk) 04:20, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Just a warning that, despite the talk page even saying it's not a good place for beginners, a(nother) WikiEd student - Rishad98 - has decided to make COVID-19 pandemic their article. And this is their sandbox of proposed changes... so who's going to tell them to pick literally anything else, and then give the instructor a trout for letting them think they could handle such an article? Kingsif ( talk) 14:52, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
If anyone wants to see how it works to train health professionals to edit Wikipedia then check out this report.
The Wiki Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization which supports universities and researchers in editing Wikipedia. They are best known for supporting Wikipedia classroom editing projects and for their meta:Programs & Events Dashboard which is popular for tracking classes who edit Wikipedia articles as a group.
In this report just published, they describe the results of their program to support scholars and scientists in editing Wikipedia articles related to COVID-19.
16 Wikipedia editors made 328 edits to 44 articles. In those edits they added ~13k words and 178 citations to sources. Those articles got 2.7 million pageviews after their edits.
Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:05, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Do we have any folks here who are good at editing images? Lineage P.1 has a map from 8 February, but things have moved on a bit since then. The current map shows local, imported, or unknown transmission. It might be worth taking a different approach to show number of cases (either absolute or relative to population) as is used at Lineage B.1.1.7 as the data may be easier to collate, eg: Lineage_P.1#Statistics. Richard Nevell ( talk) 17:40, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
This question is triggered by the insertion of a new Research section in Atorvastatin and Apixaban by fellow editor Cripplemac, mentioning that they are being researched in post-COVID-19 patients, but it pertains to other drug articles as well: When is it worth mentioning in a drug article if the respective drug is being or has been tested in trials on infected patients (obviously without having entered general use)?
The source is respectable, and it is an NHS trial; however, in my opinion, the fact that atorvastatin and apixaban are being evaluated for post-COVID-19 patients, with no results having been reported yet, is, given the great importance of any information on COVID-19, just not important enough to be included in their articles. Colchicine does have some positive preliminary findings in a trial, but, again, the fact that it is being studied in COVID-19 does not add much to the article. Any thoughts? NikosGouliaros ( talk) 10:54, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, what was/is the outcome of this discussion? I'm not sure when my original edit should be added, but i found it interesting-- Cripplemac ( talk) 19:20, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
The following articles on Covid-19 have become outdated and updates would be appreciated:
X-Editor ( talk) 22:01, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone add/update about new stain named Lineage B.1.617 [1] [2] at the page Variants of SARS-CoV-2. Thank you. Run n Fly ( talk) 10:13, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
References
It's already added Sitaphul ( talk) 19:54, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. BlackholeWA ( talk) 06:49, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
It will be very helpful if someone can provide a map similar to File:B.1.1.7 Cases by country as of 25 Mar 2021.svg for Lineage B.1.617. Thank you. Run n Fly ( talk) 09:47, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, can anyone well versed with the variant's notability, add about new variant B.1.618 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] that been supposed to be originated in India and has been found in US, Switzerland, Singapore and Finland as per reports [7] to page Variants of SARS-CoV-2 or start a standalone article. Thank you. Run n Fly ( talk) 07:07, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
References
The Wikipedia pages on Covid-19 in India are highly outdated especially the ones on the pandemic of every state. There is a complete lack of data / info between September 2020 to March 2021. Considering the second wave of the pandemic, we really need to update the page. Are any Indian wikipedians (any other nationality is fine) are interested in collaborating to update these pages? -- Sitaphul ( talk) 12:49, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
I encourage project members to help improve articles in Category:COVID-19 pandemic in India. These entries are especially important this time given current conditions. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:47, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Italy § Proposed merge of International reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy into COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 19:27, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § How should the COVID-19 pandemic be handled in article history sections?. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 21:44, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
I created a redirect at Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) that links to Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia#History, as this was them the only place I could find TTS mentioned on WP. Then I found the Post-vaccination embolic and thrombotic events page, which may be a better redirect? TTS is not specifically mentioned there, by that name. 220 of ßorg 02:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
Dear fellow Wikipedians, i am a native speaker of german, i have limited abilities in English language (vocabulary, grammar and style). Please take a look at my edit in the COG-UK article: COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium#Strategic Goals (new section/chapter). In some cases i have indicated alternatives of wording or a german-language-version in inline-comments, always starting with a typographic slash like here: <!--/. Thank you. -- Himbeerbläuling ( talk) 11:15, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
I need your opinions at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China#Mainland?. Thanks. — hueman1 ( talk • contributions) 12:59, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
The current article has severe issues of WP:PROSELINE. I've tried to trim some of the more obvious bits, but further efforts and more watchful eyes would be appreciated. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 16:00, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Please also take into account all the sources, not just the one CDC page which is being selectively quoted. Talk:COVID-19 pandemic
Should COVID-19 Pandemic's Lead state the following when explaining transmission modes.
Option 1 Transmission of COVID-19 commonly occurs when people are exposed to respiratory droplets or small airborne particles exhaled by an infected person. Those particles may be inhaled or may reach the mouth, nose, or eyes of a person directly (i.e. being coughed on) or through touching with contaminated hands. OR Option 2 COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets or small airborne particles. Transmission can also occur if splashed or sprayed with contaminated fluids, and uncommonly via contaminated surfaces. OR Option 3 COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets or small airborne particles. It can also spread if infectious respiratory fluids, such as from coughing, land on people's eyes nose or mouth, and rarely via surfaces. OR Option 4 Please insert |
-- 61.68.81.220 ( talk) 13:04, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Could we move the strikethrough from Template:Current_COVID-19_Project_Consensus? It would be much more readable without it. Vpab15 ( talk) 15:42, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
There's probably a better/more official source, but https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/covid-vaccines-iran-sweden-brazil-bosnia-georgia.html has some information about vaccination rates in multiple countries, in case anyone is looking for a source that addresses more than a single country. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey WikiProject COVID-19 members. I recently proposed an idea for a WikiProject for 2021. COVID-19 has been happening for a while now, and it is still happening in 2021 and the proposed WikiProject is dedicated to 2021 articles. So I thought I would drop by and let you know about the proposal. Feel free to drop your opinions here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/2021. Elijahandskip ( talk) 19:20, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Number of Mucormycosis cases are rising rapidly due to COVID-19, especially in India. The article needs update and improvements with more medical sources. Please do update. - Nizil ( talk) 06:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
The Independent SAGE article is attracting a certain amount of vandalism lately. Can I ask a few people to watchlist it? Thanks. Bondegezou ( talk) 10:12, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
If anyone on this WikiProject could help out the page Mask refusal, I'd appreciate that. I've added some sources to the article but I'm not an expert in what counts as WP:MEDRS. (Also, I'm not sure about the name of the article. However, I do think it is an important topic for a Wikipedia article that shouldn't be deleted.) -- Bangalamania ( talk) 14:53, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Please see WT:WikiProject Disability#Post-COVID19 disability thanks Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:38, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
This is a preprint for now, and subject to change before publication. If anyone has thoughts then post here and ping the authors to check.
I expect the authors would especially appreciate criticism or pointing out anything that does not read well from a wiki community perspective. Brief comments and casual feedback are welcome. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
The articles ranged from “Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus”, “Coronavirus packaging signal” and “Acute respiratory distress syndrome”, to “Charles Prince of Whales”- is this supposed to be " Charles, Prince of Wales" perhaps?
a special COVID-19 “Wiki project” was set up at the beginning of March 2020 offering editors a list of “trusted” sources to use (20) - first and foremost was the WHO website, and then moves on, where it might be appropriate to discuss how our "sources list" tab came about (and perhaps the fact WHO is at the top not out of primacy but standard formatting unless I'm mistaken) - that this list was created slightly more "official" than the project, by Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO John Cummings.
those [Wikipedia articles] with the lowest scores (Supplementary Figure S2B) seemed to focus almost exclusively on social aspects of the pandemic and its immediate outcome, and gives some examples, but doesn't discuss whether it really would be appropriate for the social COVID-19 Wikipedia articles to have academic sources - and, in fact, by ending the paragraph saying one article (on gubernatorial response)
made scarce use of coronavirus-related research to inform its content, citing a single academic paper related to laws of quarantine among its 244 footnotes, does seem to be suggesting that these articles should be academic-based. I'm not going to pass judgment, but perhaps some expansion in the discussion of findings here. I don't doubt there may be academic reviews of how governments handled the pandemic, what the impact on society has been, that could be used, but those sources don't even seem to have been included in the article's sample: the methodology notes that it only looked at biomedical COVID-19 academic sources (
a search of EuroPMC using COVID-19, SARS-CoV2, SARS-nCoV19 keywords was performed; see Europe PubMed Central), not those in social sciences. So it seems ...dubious... to be concluding that the social Wikipedia articles are less scientific at large, when only using medical sources to determine this. (I mean, it's probably an accurate conclusion, since "social" articles aren't bound by MEDRS, but not one I think can be made with the limited data)
the main coronavirus article (“COVID-19 pandemic”) which was placed on the English Wikipedia’s homepage, and later on, in a special banner located on the top of every single article in Englishseems to be referring to the ITN box and the WMF response banner. It may be worthy to note that the first of these efforts was volunteer-driven (and part of a separate process to WikiProject COVID-19, at WT:ITN; archived creation discussion) and "permanent", while the latter was an executive overhead and the banner had an "X" button to dismiss (and was quite unpopular; archived discussion).
I have now opened a new case regarding recent, persistent, widespread disruption at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Origins_of_COVID-19. Feel free to participate, the given list of participants is non-exhaustive. RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 01:43, 4 June 2021 (UTC)