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Belize has it´s first case of monkeypox according to this Honduras report.

In this source:

https://proceso.hn/viruela-del-mono-arriba-a-honduras-29-meses-despues-de-covid/

It talks about how Honduras has confirmed it´s first case of the virus.

Then we go to a section.

See: Guatemala adds three confirmed cases of monkeypox In Central America, with the exception of Nicaragua, which does not offer information in this regard, and El Salvador, all the countries have confirmed cases of monkeypox.

Guatemala has three confirmed cases of monkeypox since the first case of the disease was made public by the Government of Guatemala on August 3, although it was initially detected on July 27.

For its part, Honduras confirmed its first case of this virus on August 12, just 29 months after confirming the first two cases of COVID-19.

So techincally Belize has had it´s first case of monkeypox. 73.126.133.15 (talk) 23:00, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jersey

The source for Jersey says the case is "high probable". However, there is no update for the "confirmed" statement. Therefore, the quantity needs to be transferred from the "Confirmed" column to the "Suspected" column. Or a case-related update resource is required. Nevmit (talk) 18:51, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Tol Nevmit (talk) 21:24, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Nevmit: Uh, hello? I'm not sure why you pinged me. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 22:25, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think Jersey should be removed from the list. But if I do it, it could turn into an "undo" war. So I think an admin or patroller should do it. Nevmit (talk) 18:34, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I just added the official website concerning monkeypox by the Government of Jersey to the reference list, which says that there is one known case in Jersey. The website is https://www.gov.je/Government/Departments/StrategicPolicy/PublicHealth/Pages/Monkeypox.aspx. Chbe113 (talk) 09:14, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
thank you Nevmit (talk) 19:50, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 23 November 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

result:
Not moved. See strong, policy-based consensus below to not make a title change at this time. No prejudice if a strong policy-based argument can be made in six months to a year from now, then a fresh move request can be made. Thanks and kudos to editors for your input; everyone stay healthy! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'r there 00:53, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2022 monkeypox outbreak → 2022 MPOX outbreak – The WHO is looking to rename Monkeypox to MPOX should we rename PopularGames (talk) 05:55, 23 November 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:54, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Approve because the WHO has changed/is planning to change the name Thehistorianisaac (talk) 01:48, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Approve per the WHO change and the WHO doing this to reduce stigma. I have made 2022 mpox outbreak into a redirect for this page in case people link it on wikipedia DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 10:47, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose due to lack of rationale. The proposed change does not improve any of the characteristics in WP:CRITERIA except maybe Concision, and hurts Naturalness and Recognizability. It doesn't follow WP:COMMONNAME or WP:NAMECHANGES yet (it hasn't even been long enough for that to happen), nor WP:CONSISTENT. It doesn't meet any of the Reasons for moving a page. Destigmatization and harm reduction are nice goals, but they're the WHO's goals, not Wikipedia's titling goals — and it's not clear that changing the title to "mpox" would even achieve those goals anyway. The closest the titling policies get to destigmatization is WP:NPOVTITLE, and it's very hard to argue that the current title is non-neutral, unless and until "mpox" becomes so widespread, and "monkeypox" so taboo, that not adopting "mpox" would be viewed as a sign of bias — in which case the change would be supported by COMMONNAME and NAMECHANGES anyway. NoriMori (ノリモリ) 00:42, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Rename proposal

See the discussion at Talk:Mpox#Related articles and give your opinions there please. -- Colin°Talk 10:06, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 February 2023

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The result of the move request was: Moved to 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, along with most per-country articles and stuff from Category:Monkeypox (to be submitted to WP:C2D). No such user (talk) 18:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The result of the move request was: Boldly putting this on hold as the result is basically contingent on the move request at the Mpox article. I'd encourage all interested to join the discussion there. Ajpolino (talk) 20:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2022–2023 monkeypox outbreak → 2022–2023 mpox outbreak – This was proposed last November, but rejected with some editors feeling it was premature. Time has moved on. Since then, the monkeypox article was moved to mpox and there has been discussion on the Talk page for that article that unanimously supports switching from "monkeypox" to "mpox" in this article too: see Talk:Mpox#Related articles. However, that discussion has only involved 4 of us and we should get consensus here. Mpox and mpox outbreak is the terminology now used in WP:MEDRS-compliant sourcing, by WHO, by Nature, by Science, by articles in The Lancet, by the CDC, by CNN, etc. etc. Bondegezou (talk) 09:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. No such user (talk) 08:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and we should change the whole set of articles (apart from the virus). You will see I did place a "Rename proposal" earlier here and in every related article, directing discussion to the main mpox talk page. It is a shame that there wasn't more response, but I don't think we should need to do a rename proposal for each article, as my notice should be enough.
I was stalling making the change myself while the -23 issue was uncertain. While I continue to believe the renaming to add -2023 was premature, it now does look likely to be adopted and so we might as well keep that. So all these articles should be named "2022–2023 mpox outbreak" and variants on that theme, as well as their body text updated. -- Colin°Talk 10:27, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per nom. Ajpolino (talk) 15:01, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ortizesp is mistaken. The move for the main Monkeypox article to Mpox was done a month ago following extensive discussion: see Talk:Mpox#Update. There were 6 editors in favour of moving versus just one IP editor against. The move was not done controversially: I suggest Ortizesp strike that comment. Bondegezou (talk) 17:03, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
But it appears there was no official WP:RM opened. Whatever discussion took place would have been only among those people watching that Talk page of the article, as the wider Wikipedia community was not informed that this was being considered. The fact that there was some further back-and-forth move activity for the article after that is evidence that the move was not uncontroversial. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:26, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
WP:RM is explicitly not mandatory. The move at mpox was uncontroversial: editors discussed the matter and came to a near unanimous decision. The move was made and no-one complained. Then, a month later, an editor apparently new to the article moved the page back yesterday with no discussion whatsoever, which I reverted. That editor has since acknowledged their error. Bondegezou (talk) 18:56, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
And now an RM has been opened. It seems that you and I (and Ortizesp) may have a different understanding of what constitutes controversiality. Differences in perspective don't necessarily make people who have a differing view mistaken or mean that their comments should be struck. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ortizesp opened the RM. Ortizesp effectively saying the same thing twice is not corroboration of Ortizesp's position. Bondegezou (talk) 22:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ortizesp has now acknowledged that they had missed seeing the earlier discussion when they opened the RM at mpox: see User_talk:Ortizesp#Close. Bondegezou (talk) 09:02, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatively: returning the page whence it came, i.e. back to 2022 monkeypox outbreak as the end date of this disease is not known and it may extend into 2024 and beyond. There was no discussion to include 2023 as part of the title. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 21:45, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Wait for the other RM to settle. Although the other request was created later (and as a direct response to this one), if it succeeds, it would resolve this one as well. O.N.R. (talk) 00:03, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Are you happy either way? That is, if the decision is for mpox to stay at mpox, you would then support the corresponding change here? Bondegezou (talk) 08:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Procedural close It should follow the consensus at the other requested move, or stay where it is if there is no consensus. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:49, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Ortizesp and per comment by BarrelProof. Monkeypox is indeed the WP:COMMONNAME — There are 457 inline cites and five external links at the bottom of this article and virtually all of those refer to the viral disease in question as "monkeypox", rather than as "mpox". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:19, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    As per the policy at WP:NAMECHANGES, Sometimes the subject of an article will undergo a change of name. When this occurs, we give extra weight to independent, reliable English-language sources ("reliable sources") written after the name change. This article has lots of citations from last summer, but the name was changed after those. As per policy, we should focus on recent usage. I gave examples of recent usage at the start of this discussion. Bondegezou (talk) 08:48, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think we should have an essentially identical discussion in two places. The main "mpox" article seems more appropriate than this one. Please discuss at the Talk:Mpox#Requested move 28 February 2023 but note that there are also important points made at Talk:Mpox#Monkeypox or Mpox?. Also note that at the tail end of that previous discussion, we did discuss the -2023 name change. I was initially opposed to it, but it does seem now that organisations responsible for declaring and handling the outbreak (and its end) are now including -2023 in the name. So we should follow them.
User:Bondegezou I wonder if you could make an admin request to close or suspend this discussion until the other one is over. Otherwise it will just be a mess. -- Colin°Talk 08:57, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have alerted all those Talk pages, and the Talk page for the navbox. Bondegezou (talk) 12:01, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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.
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