Talk:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020

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Section sizes

Section size for Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020 (37 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	577	577
Case statistics	515	515
Pandemic chronology	26	256,587
1 April	10,407	10,407
2 April	12,416	12,416
3 April	11,909	11,909
4 April	11,845	11,845
5 April	9,262	9,262
6 April	8,904	8,904
7 April	7,392	7,392
8 April	8,025	8,025
9 April	6,256	6,256
10 April	8,911	8,911
11 April	9,085	9,085
12 April	7,298	7,298
13 April	11,084	11,084
14 April	6,962	6,962
15 April	6,385	6,385
16 April	8,795	8,795
17 April	8,275	8,275
18 April	10,155	10,155
19 April	9,415	9,415
20 April	7,210	7,210
21 April	7,112	7,112
22 April	9,236	9,236
23 April	6,728	6,728
24 April	8,761	8,761
25 April	7,383	7,383
26 April	8,017	8,017
27 April	6,177	6,177
28 April	8,575	8,575
29 April	6,117	6,117
30 April	8,464	8,464
Summary	15	3,074
Timeline	3,059	3,059
See also	56	56
References	179	179
Total	260,988	260,988

Preemptive split?

Resolved

– Responses split off into Responses to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in April 2020. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:21, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As we've already done it for March, should we do the same thing for April right now or wait until references start not displaying correctly? --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 22:21, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I will support a split. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 01:27, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. kencf0618 (talk) 16:39, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

agreed. Feelthhis (talk) 22:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If that's the case, I will split the pages soon. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 16:35, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing as no action has been taken in a week, I'm assuming we're leaving this page as is until reference overabundance happens again. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 06:55, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was waiting to get approval to split the pages. If yes, I will do it. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 12:02, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will be a good idea to split into separate pandemic and response sections. Will just have to copy and paste the Al Jazeera and other news references I have been using. Will be good to do it before the references start playing up. Andykatib 02:41, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Have split the article and creates Responses to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in April 2020. Andykatib 01:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 09:00, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Geography

The geographical regions throughout the timeline are China, Europe, North America, and Elsewhere. And the last time I checked, neither Brazil nor Guatemala were in North America. And the WHO itself has six regions: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/World_Health_Organization#/media/File:World_Health_Organisation_regional_offices.svg

So, should we use it, the six continent model, the seven continent model, or what?

For that, I think we will use what people are familiar with. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 12:03, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's been sorted into the WHO's Six Continent model. Probably no good reason to retrofit the previous monthly timelines from the PHEIC onwards, but I think this shift beginning in April is salient. kencf0618 (talk) 11:20, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't make the rules: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/WHO_regions kencf0618 (talk) 12:00, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of "COVID"/"Covid"?

Greetings and felicitations. "COVID" or "Covid"? Ignoring the use in references, "Covid" seems to be the more used, but "COVID" is what is used for the Wikipedia article (and as an acronym is supported by the MOS, as well as being my personal preference). Should I clean this up (only in the article text, I mean, not the references) or leave it alone? —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's an acronym. Leave it be. kencf0618 (talk) 11:21, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

But acronyms are exactly what are addressed in MOS:CAPSACRS. —DocWatson42 (talk) 05:15, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DocWatson42, official sources use all caps. We had a discussion about this a while back over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Archive 5#COVID-19 or Coronavirus disease 2019?. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:25, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Tenryuu: Thank you. That seems on point for me to clean up the body of the article (to be clear: not the references), changing all instances of "Covid" to "COVID". Further comments? —DocWatson42 (talk) 13:17, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DocWatson42, sounds good! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:03, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone else? kencf0618? —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:15, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. "The 'Rona" is the preferred colloquial expression anyway. kencf0618 (talk) 05:38, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Someone get to it before me, so there were only two instances left to correct. I also cleaned up the MOS:LAYOUT, deleted link cruft, and corrected a few instances of a name in references. Thank you for collaborating. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:42, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Next month

For May, should we create two articles looking at the timeline of the epidemic and the responses: Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in May 2020 and Responses to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in May 2020? For the responses section, we could divide into the WHO's six global regions: Africa, the Americas, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, and the Western Pacific. Having two articles would ensure that it doesn't become too long. It will also make sense to follow the WHO global regions as well. Andykatib 07:22, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Andykatib: I support that idea. The articles for November-December 2019 and January 2020 are being done as such similarly as well. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, glad it has been done. Andykatib (talk) 21:02, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]