Talk:Astrovirus

Proposed merger (2007)

I suggest that this article should be merged with Astroviridae and that the article should be called Astrovirus. Comments please GrahamColm^Talk 19:02, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

• Agree, however, I am unclear whether there is a standard for naming virus pages, could be Astroviridae or Astrovirus. —G716 <^T·_C> 18:56, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I just think that readers are more likely to write Astrovirus in the search box than they are Astroviridae. Not that this matters so much; they would reach the article after another click of the mouse or two. Best wishes, Graham. --GrahamColm^Talk 19:12, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Name

What's the etymology for this? From the name, I was expecting a virus that came from space. --BDD (talk) 22:03, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

It's because they look like stars when negatively-stained and imaged by electron microscopy. Astroviruses look like six-pointed stars with a solid center, whereas caliciviruses look like six-pointed ones with a hollow center. Here's a reference: Madeley, CR. (1979). "Comparison of the features of astroviruses and caliciviruses seen in samples of feces by electron microscopy". J Infect Dis. 139 (5): 519–23. PMID 438551. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help) Graham Colm (talk) 22:42, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Signs and Symptoms in Humans

I added additional information concerning the portions of the population the virus infects and why along with the variation in symptoms found and where the virus propagates within the host. The sources I added were  Bass, Dorsey M. "Astroviruses." - Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial Agents. Antimicrobe, 2010. Web. 14 Oct. 2016.  Trayner, Jennifer. "The Epidemiology of Astroviruses." Stanford Medicine. Stanford University, 16 Jan. 1998. Web. 14 Oct. 2016.

Hns246 (talk) 01:22, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Meningoencephalitis

doi:10.1128/CMR.00040-18 JFW | T@lk 19:00, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

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Proposed movement of content specific to Human astroviruses to a separate Wikipedia page

I would like to make a separate Wikipedia page for Human astroviruses and move all the information specific to human astroviruses from this page to the new page. I would also like to add more information on the Astroviridae family of viruses to this pageTolu9 (talk) 22:34, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, you should make the new page first before deleting any content from this article, which will still require a discussion and consensus.Graham Beards (talk) 06:25, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

OK, thank you. I have created another page for the astroviridae family of viruses (in my sandbox) and I would like to add that information to the Astroviridae article that was merged with the Astrovirus article in 2007. My reasoning is that on the table of clinically relevant Viral diseases, human astroviruses and astroviridae are the only pair that don't have their individual Wikipedia articles. Furthermore, the current Astrovirus article disproportionately covers human astroviruses.Tolu9 (talk) 16:46, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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Non-human astrovirus

Hello, I am a student editor and I was wondering if it would be okay for me to maybe add on to the article with more information about Astrovirus in the various animals it affects, perhaps under a new section? Comments or suggestions?ClerisySmir (talk) 02:56, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Merger with Astroviridae

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 Astroviridae into Astrovirus as synonyms (common and scientific name); merge to common name per WP:COMMONNAME. Klbrain (talk) 11:01, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

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Astroviridae and Astrovirus appear to be synonyms, with both articles seemingly using them as such. Much of the content is duplicated. A merger was actually proposed way back in 2007, but despite no objections no-one implemented the merge. I'd recommend merging to Astroviridae, as "astrovirus" seems to be a common name whereas Astroviridae seems to be the formal title of the taxon. – Scyrme (talk) 22:55, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

• I support merging Astroviridae with Astrovirus and leaving a redirect at Astroviridae. Astroviridae is the taxonomic name of the family, Mamastrovirus and Avastrovirus are the genera whereas astrovirus is the common name. Graham Beards (talk) 23:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

@Graham Beards: Why leave the redirect at Astroviridae not Astrovirus? Shouldn't be taxonomic name be the title of the article? (It would make things easier with the {{taxonbar}} if the article's title were the taxonomic name not the common name.) – Scyrme (talk) 00:02, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Because WP:COMMONNAME trumps taxonomic name in most circumstances. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Fair enough. – Scyrme (talk) 00:52, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I do not think that the "common name" is more useful for the layman, and that any non-layman would understand the scientific name.

common name not that common (probably)

>> Webclouddat (talk) 01:56, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

• Support redirect/merge of Astroviridae to Astrovirus per Graham Beards, this appears to be essentially the same topic, and having two articles is redundant. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:44, 29 May 2023 (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.

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 11:01, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Addendum: page view analysis also suggest that Astrovirus is searched about 10x more frequently than Astroviridae, which also supports the direction of merge to the common name. Klbrain (talk) 11:02, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Fixing errors in references

@Graham Beards: I am fixing errors in references. Some errors are displayed in the references straight after a reference (with red colored font), while other errors or warnings merely add the article to a category such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_overridden_setting -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&ns0=1&search=deepcat%3A%22CS1+maint%3A+overridden+setting%22&advancedSearch-current=%7B%22fields%22%3A%7B%22deepcategory%22%3A%5B%22CS1+maint%3A+overridden+setting%22%5D%7D%7D

For example, if you see this revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astrovirus&oldid=1199329968 -- you will see that reference #3, #44 and #46 have errors "{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)", and the page is in the categories "CS1 errors: periodical ignored" and "CS1 maint: overridden setting", whereas later revision (after my fixes) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astrovirus&oldid=1199348085 resolves these errors and removes the page from these 2 categories. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 21:22, 26 January 2024 (UTC)