Talk:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2023

Merge proposal

Early in the pandemic, the articles were split into different months because the article was way too large already by March. It's very noticeable now that there is limited content and questionable relevancy with no clear consistency on what countries are worthy of mentioning and when. Merging the articles allow for a smoother transition into ending the 'Timeline of the COVID-19 Pandemic' series. AndrewRG10 (talk) 01:49, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

• Strong support, these articles have become ever more bare bones and it's getting kind of silly to have a separate one for every month. I also would have been fine with terminating the series with May 2023, being the end of the PHEIC, but all of 2023 is pretty bare bones and 2019 is also all together, so it's good.
  Also, per WP:NOTDATABASE, we should remove all the day-by-day case counts for that handful of Western Pacific countries that the 2023 entries are riddled with. It's not encyclopedic or interesting. Lastly, the idea that Turkmenistan has had no Covid cases by now is highly implausible; that claim by that government should be contextualized with better sources. Crossroads ^-talk- 21:27, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support, having worked on the COVID-19 updates for New Zealand and Malaysia for the past four years, I agree that it is time to move on. While there was a lot of interest back in 2020 due to the lockdowns, interest has since declined as life has returned to a sense of normalcy. I also agree that we should remove the daily counts since its only NZ and Malaysia that seems to get updated and also to comply with WP:NOTDATABASE. Should we also discontinue the various COVID-19 regional templates such as Template:COVID-19 cases in Asia and Template:COVID-19 cases in Oceania? Thought it would be good to ping other users working on the COVID-19 timeline pages including @Keith1611: and @Fixer88:. Andykatib 01:03, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

  I toally support this move i think it is time to officially move on interest on the timeline pages has dropped with most countries doing weekly reporting in edition to the merge we should consider putting indefinite page protection to pervent vandalism and blocked or banned editors from editing the article and is similar disesion coming for 2022 2021 and 2020 coming soon 2001:56B:3FE6:1E9:0:5F:FB7F:4701 (talk) 16:15, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

• Strong support These month-by-month articles have continued to proliferate long after the coverage demonstrated their need (and the existing ones desperately need to follow WP:SUMMARYSTYLE where I imagine a lot more could be merged together.) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 16:51, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Merger

Per the conversation above, I decided to "be bold" and merged the 2023 COVID-19 timeline articles into Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023. Will redirect these articles into the new timeline page. It's a big article so feel free to cut and edit the content. Cheers. Andykatib 12:11, 25 AuguSt 2023 (UTC)