Talk:Parvoviridae
Add topicLatest comment: 6 years ago by Klbrain in topic Proposing merge from Parvovirus to Parvoviridae
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Human Viruses
[edit]Which other ones infect humans? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.7.247 (talk) 22:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Canine Viruses
[edit]Canine parovirus - "parvo" is an important veterinary disease. I added the "See Also" but more is needed Linlithgow (talk) 16:32, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Orphaned references in Parvoviridae
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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Parvoviridae's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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Proposing merge from Parvovirus to Parvoviridae
[edit]- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- To merge common nameto scientific name given the overlap in scope and content. Klbrain (talk) 11:15, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
- Merge - Parvovirus is a vague common name, but mainly refers to the scientific name Parvoviridae. We don't need two articles for the same topic. --Nessie (talk) 20:30, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
- In theory the two topics are complementary, one potentially using the common name of these viruses (parvovirus) to address issues that would be of interest to the general public (which would presumably including lots of pathology and epidemiology), while the other article, Parvoviridae, uses the name of a phylogenetic taxon to discuss the similarities and molecular diversity of viruses from this particular branch of the evolutionary tree. This Parvoviridae article is scientifically accurate and reflects current thinking, but is pitched at an academic level that will be of little use to someone who's child has 5th disease or who's dog has just contracted canine parvovirus.
- I think the problem is that the existing parvovirus article is rather ancient and idiosyncratic. It was presumably created originally by a member of the public who had a personal interest in the pathology of these viruses, but little solid information. Over the years people have tentatively tried to make it less eccentric (without actually gutting it) by removing the strangest sections and adding some essential taxonomic and molecular data. However, it still fails to adequately describe the viruses from the layman's perspective and it still contains a lot of dubious material that needs to be removed (for example, the whole section on the use of HeLa cells). -- Sutatt
- @Sutatt: I know of no other article that has two versions. Both should be combined, with the more general information first and the heavier details further down the page. Readers that have trouble with the technical information are the ones most liekly to be lost and not find the 'correct' version. They should be on one place, not two. --Nessie (talk) 01:47, 3 May 2019 (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.