Talk:SARS-related coronavirus

Requested move 9 July 2022

 * 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. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 17:14, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

SARSr-CoV → SARS-related coronavirus – This article was recently renamed (from a title different from what I am suggesting here). However, I suggest that this proposed name would be more WP:RECOGNIZEable for most readers. I suggested this title in April 2020, but at the time the consensus was to not abbreviate SARS. In the more recent discussion, the abbreviation of SARS was agreed, so that objection has since been overturned. I suggest that the name is now overly abbreviated to the point of making it difficult for people to understand what the topic is. I doubt that most readers understand what this fully abbreviated name means. I also made this suggestion in the recent discussion, but no one responded to the suggestion during that discussion. —&#8288;&#8202;&#8288;BarrelProof (talk) 19:14, 9 July 2022 (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.
 * Convenience link to the previous move discussion last month (which was a bundled nomination affecting four pages) —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 07:33, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support – In the previous move discussion I said I was unsure between the titles "Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus" and "SARSr-CoV". I think the proposed title is clearer than either of those. For non-specialist readers, the current title is too easily confused with SARS-CoV-1. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 07:47, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Infobox weirdness
This article is about the sub-genus sarbecovirus (a name that is a portmanteau of SARS-related betacoronavirus) and yet the infobox implies it is about a species called "Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus" which it says is just one species of the sub-genus sarbecovirus.

The info box is a template Template:Taxonomy/Sarbecovirus which is an automated taxobox, something I am not familiar with.

Anyone know what is going on and how to sort it?

Yaris678 (talk) 22:34, 21 November 2023 (UTC)


 * OK. I've fixed it.  The key is to edit the input parameters to the template as per usual, not click on the little edit button on the template!  Yaris678 (talk) 14:17, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Betacoronavirus pandemicum
The authority on virus nomenclature, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (the same organisation that originally named this species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus), has put its 2023 ruling into effect that all virus species names should be binomialised, and has renamed this species to Betacoronavirus pandemicum.

Reference: https://ictv.global/taxonomy/taxondetails?taxnode_id=202301868&taxon_name=Betacoronavirus%20pandemicum

This article and others will need to be updated. Ypna (talk) 11:17, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I did a quick update of the lead sentence and infobox with this, but more work will be needed. Crossroads -talk- 20:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)