Talk:Virology

Merger with Virus

I suggested way back in 2009 merging this neglected article with Virus. There is very little here that is not covered in Virus and it's progeny articles History of virology and Social history of viruses. Comments please on the Virus Talk Page . Graham Beards (talk) 11:34, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Following a discussion at Virus, I have withdrawn the suggestion and I have decided to improve the article. Graham Beards (talk) 14:45, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Obelisk - merger(s) would help?

See also: Talk:Viroid and Talk:Obelisk (life form)

Currently - seems there's several wikilinks to the purportedly newly discovered life form "obelisk" - "Obelisk (virology)" and "Obelisk (life form)" and "Obelisk (viroid)" - perhaps some merger(s) would help? - Comments Welcome - iac - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan (talk) 13:20, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Done. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:05, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

At least two of these three names are a bit problematic:

• Obelisk (life form): Many scientists don't consider viruses as life forms, for subviral agents it is even more doubtful.
• Obelisk (viroid): The references consider obelisks as substantially different from known viroids, we should await the position of ICTV for both update of The International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature and updated and ratified ICTV Virus Taxonomy containing obelisks (to be mentioned: 1. there is no proposal yet for implementing obelisks, so it could pend some years; 2. the circular form of their RNA is similar to viroids, but obelisks contain genes that are unlike any discovered so far in other genoms, which may indicate a completely new realm).
• Obelisk (virology) is O.K. due to Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming the specific topic articles, but the parenthetical disambiguation specifies the context to which the topic applies, not the generic class. The options could be Obelisk (viruslike entity) or Obelisk (viroid-like entity).

Petr Karel (talk) 15:57, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Or Obelisk (subviral agent)? Graham Beards (talk) 16:38, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Any of the above are fine by me, but please discuss on that article's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:52, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Paragraph appears cobbled together

The paragraph pasted below flows poorly. In particular, in the last sentence, what does "These fields of study" refer to?

One main motivation for the study of viruses is because they cause many infectious diseases of plants and animals.[1] The study of the manner in which viruses cause disease is viral pathogenesis. The degree to which a virus causes disease is its virulence.[2] These fields of study are called plant virology, animal virology and human or medical virology.[3] Pauldebarros (talk) 10:44, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

I rewrote it entirely, thanks for bringing this up. The new paragraph isn't exactly the same in meaning, though, so feel free to further change stuff as you see fit. Cheers!

• As an applied science, virology forms a significant portion of medical microbiology and medicine in humans. The application fo virology in veterinary medicine is called veterinary virology, and the study of plant viruses forms part of plant pathology. Viral pathogenesis is the branch of virology studying how viruses infect and cause diseases to their hosts.

海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 11:15, 9 July 2026 (UTC)