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→Naming: It's a coronavirus, but not THE coronavirus
:::I don't see an issue. The first words of the article are "Coronavirus is a family of several viruses", which makes the title accurate for this important page. If there is an issue, it is that there is no page specifically for [[COVID-19]], which needs to be created. [[User:Progressingamerica|Progressingamerica]] ([[User talk:Progressingamerica|talk]]) 19:41, 18 March 2020 (EDT)
:::I don't see an issue. The first words of the article are "Coronavirus is a family of several viruses", which makes the title accurate for this important page. If there is an issue, it is that there is no page specifically for [[COVID-19]], which needs to be created. [[User:Progressingamerica|Progressingamerica]] ([[User talk:Progressingamerica|talk]]) 19:41, 18 March 2020 (EDT)
::::Eventually, we should separate coronavirus from THIS particular strains of coronavirus, but not just yet. This is a portal page to the current crisis.
::::When that is done eventually, it needs to be made absolutely clear in now uncertain terms - the term virus may be ambiguous or a misnomer. There certainly are two extremely different types of viruses in the modern world (1) those that occur in nature; and (2) those engineered in a laboratory. So the thoughts conjured up by the term 'virus' itself in common usage and understanding are incorrect.
:::This is no way 'conspiratorial' or quackery; in our modern world heroin opium occurs in nature and opioids are engineered in labs. Which is responsible for'the opioid epidemic', God and nature, or science and laboratories? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]</sup> 10:57, 22 March 2020 (EDT)