Talk:Algal virus

Wiki Education assignment: Aquatic Ecology
— Assignment last updated by ScienceClues (talk) 16:01, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 10 May 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus to move per WP:SINGULAR. (non-admin closure) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 18:23, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Algae viruses → Algal virus – The lead uses "Algal virus" rather than "algae virus", and we usually prefer to title articles in singular. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:48, 10 May 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support - per WP:SINGULAR - UtherSRG (talk) 11:52, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tentative support; I think the singular form should be used here, but the article algae is at the plural title (not that I object to that; the plural algae is probably more familiar to most people than the singular alga, and most algae are encountered in nature as a mass of individual organisms that can't be readily distinguished from one another). Plantdrew (talk) 17:00, 11 May 2023 (UTC)