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Highlighted open discussions

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• Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data § Highlighted open discussions

Current consensus

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General

1. Superseded by TfD October 2020 and later practice - consult regular {{Current}} guidance.
2. Refrain from using Worldometer (worldometers.info) as a source due to common errors being observed as noted on the Case Count Task Force common errors page. (April 2020, April 2020)
3. For infoboxes on the main articles of countries, use Wuhan, Hubei, China for the origin parameter. (March 2020)
4. "Social distancing" is generally preferred over "physical distancing". (April 2020, May 2020)

Page title

1. COVID-19 (full caps) is preferable in the body of all articles, and in the title of all articles/category pages/etc.(RM April 2020, including the main article itself, RM March 2021).
2. SARS-CoV-2 (exact capitalisation and punctuation) is the common name of the virus and should be used for the main article's title, as well as in the body of all articles, and in the title of all other articles/category pages/etc. (June 2022, overturning April 2020)

Map

1. There is no consensus about which color schemes to use, but they should be consistent within articles as much as possible. There is agreement that there should be six levels of shading, plus gray   for areas with no instances or no data. (May 2020)
2. There is no consensus about whether the legend, the date, and other elements should appear in the map image itself. (May 2020)
3. For map legends, ranges should use fixed round numbers (as opposed to updating dynamically). There is no consensus on what base population to use for per capita maps. (May 2020)

Stats Templates

I know this has been asked several times in previous discussions. Many of the COVID stat templates haven't been updated for more than two years. Many are sitting around not being used. The same arguments can be said for the templates linked in the main COVID navbox in which many of the templates that are used in a way through navbox transclusions haven't been updated for significant periods and could be subject to similar Tfd rationale.

Is there any objection to having at first the unused templates being taken to Tfd? I would like there to be project-wide consensus before taking on this task myself and with members of this project. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:55, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Long Covid at Wikidata

Hoi, At this time there is only one scientific paper with the "main subject" long covid. Given the denial of the subject and the consequences.. It is a great idea to consider Wikidata as a source. Here is the [Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q100732653] for the subject. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 11:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello, @GerardM:. I'm not sure what you mean by "only one scientific paper" with the main subject being long COVID. I'm seeing the following papers, among others:

• Long COVID: An overview
• Long COVID and its Management
• Long covid—mechanisms, risk factors, and management
• How and why patients made Long Covid
• Attributes and predictors of long COVID
• The immunology of long COVID

Perhaps you could clarify what you actually meant? Thanks! - Cyberflag1 (talk) 12:41, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

When you check the Scholia for the topic, you find that there are now 108 publications. As there is a lot of controversy around the subject, it is vital that for a NPOV we keep on top on adding references.. I blogged about this recently the other day. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 17:14, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi GerardM. I know your post is old, but even in late 2023 there was significant research ongoing regarding Long COVID. I have a number of articles and there are many available online if you search for them but here is a link to the NIH portal for the topic, there is a tab on Long COVID. [1]https://covid19.nih.gov

Thanks to @Cyberflag1for the short list. The Immunology of Long COVID is a great paper.

Thanks, MapleSyrupRain (talk) 03:12, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Merge discussion

There's a merge discussion at Talk:Origin of COVID-19#Proposed merge of Zoonotic origins of COVID-19 into Origin of COVID-19. Editors are invited to participate. TarnishedPath^talk 11:27, 26 March 2024 (UTC)