Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/12056 virus


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The result was Nomination withdrawn by the nominating editor and no input from any other editor. A non-admin closure. And Adoil Descended (talk) 00:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

12056 virus

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No such virus. 12056 is the identifier for Tobacco necrosis virus D in the NCBI database (see here) Plantdrew (talk) 16:10, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops. A 12056 virus does exist, but it appears to be a provisional name. The NCBI citation and related information does not belong in the article. It is not clear what the current name for 12056 virus is. The ICTV (the official source for virus nomenclature) has no record of it. Plantdrew (talk) 16:19, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator I was getting confused by the mix-up with Tobacco necrosis virus, and overlooked that 12056 is a virus strain, not a species. Wikipedia doesn't usually have articles on virus strains (or plant/animal taxa belong the rank of species), but Wikipedia does frequently have redirects for ranks below species. I've created an article for the species, Paraná mammarenavirus, and 12056 virus can be redirected there rather than deleted. Plantdrew (talk) 20:04, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds sensible :) -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 10:13, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:37, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:37, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Odd. So does this refer to Tobacco necrosis virus or not? How do you gather that the designation in the Encyclopedia of Virology is a provisional one? -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:47, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's definitely not Tobacco necrosis virus. By coincidence, 12056 an identifier for this viral strain, as well as the NCBI database ID for Tobacco necrosis virus (given ~3500 virus species and a couple million plant/animal species in the NCBI database, it's pretty remarkable that NCBI ID 12056 happened to be a virus). I overlooked at first that this was a virus strain and not a species; 12056 isn't informative enough to comply with the ICTV rules for species names (so I assumed it was a provisional name), but strain names don't need to be informative. Plantdrew (talk) 20:04, 16 February 2018 (UTC)


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