Template talk:Viral systemic diseases

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Viral diseases, viruses, or both

This template started out listing diseases only. It now seems to becoming a mix of diseases, and the viruses involved. (especially now that GrahamColm added viral gastroenteritis as a subhead.) Should we have a consensus whether this should be viral diseases (as the template name suggests), viruses, or both? Do we care? Regards—G716 <T·C> 18:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • It might be better called Viruses and Disease, perhaps??? But hey, what do I know, I'm a newbie.
    User:GrahamColm —Preceding comment was added at 19:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Diseases template

This is supposed to be a diseases template (per name, title, category, etc.), but lately the emphasis seems to have shifted away from diseases to virology.

I think we should move it back to dealing with diseases (i.e. disease first), group items by disease characteristics, and remove taxonomic information on the causative organism - template is becoming too large/complex.

If want to keep the focus on viruses, then the name, title, category, color scheme, etc. should be changed to make it a virology template (e.g. Viruses that affect humans.)

The same thing is also occurring with template:Zoonotic viral diseases, and it should probably be treated similarly. Zodon (talk) 00:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since there are several templates with similar issues, posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#Disease navigation templates - emphasise disease vs. causative agent, please discuss there. Thanks. Zodon (talk) 02:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

should it say viral diseases in humans?

propose name change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.151.229.24 (talk) 01:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]