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@Edwininlondon: Thanks! Have nominated it here Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Northern England. Smurrayinchester 08:26, 19 July 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi, did you think about renaming Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome-related_coronavirus into sarbecovirus ? This would make it clearer and more accurate with respect to the scientific literature (look at page 7). Sarbcovirus is a "subgenus" of the genus betacoronavirus. Reuns (talk) 14:27, 18 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Reuns: Thanks. For what it's worth, I went with Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus as the title because that's the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses nomenclature for the species. That said, it looks like Sarbecovirus taxonomy is currently a mess (there's no current distinction between Sarbecovirus and the SARS-related coronavirus species) and it seems perfectly plausible to me that when this is all over there will be a reorganisation that puts SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 in different species under Sarbecovirus. This probably needs input from people who know more than me at Talk:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus. Smurrayinchester 14:57, 18 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Smurrayinchester I'm not saying Sars-related doesn't exist in the taxonomy, but according to https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/ it is the only "species" of the subgenus sarbecovirus,

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so it would make it clearer to group Sars-Cov, Sars-Cov-2, Bat_SARS-like_coronavirus_WIV1 into the sarbecovirus subgenus (the article doesn't exist yet, all we have to do is to rename Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus and edit its Taxobox) Reuns (talk) 15:40, 18 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why "Putting a footnote inside the percentage breaks the chart"? I see the chart correctly, so maybe it changes with browsers? Can we put it in some other place? --151.48.13.156 (talk) 10:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

On Firefox, it seems to cause the bracket after the percentage to appear on the next line, making that row twice as wide. Smurrayinchester 12:31, 12 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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