Talk:Shanti virus

Page Idea

So there exists a disease in the Heroes 'verse that affects Evolved Humans, and has aflicted 3 people: Shanti, Molly, and the latest victem, the dying patient from Blackout. This thing might affect others in the future. Terefore, I think an article on it is, or soon will be, warranted. What say everyone else?--SacValleyDweller 19:06, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

• See Shanti virus. --DocM 19:11, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
  • gotchya, gonna make a redirect to that, then.--SacValleyDweller 19:15, 4 September 2007 (EDT) And this can be deleted.--SacValleyDweller 19:24, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
    • No, I'll just combine this conversation with the other one, and then have a redirect. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 19:28, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

Mainspace

Hey, I see you are starting something here, that I was just planning to do myself. Are you starting this out as a 'userpage', with the intent on making it a real-page when you get it all fixed up? I have been doing research through pics and the transcripts on references regarding this. Would you mind if I added in additional things I have found on it? --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 09/4/2007 11:27 (EST)

• This page will (hopefully) become main once it's all sorted and what-not. You can add whatever you want to it. --DocM 11:30, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

Item?

Um, how exactly is this item? --Hero!^(talk)_(contribs) 20:34, 5 September 2007 (EDT)

• Do you have another suggestion? I agree, it's odd, but it doesn't really fit anywhere else. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 22:06, 5 September 2007 (EDT)
• I think item works. A virus is a physical thing. It's not one you can see or touch but it's real. I guess we could make a category called Microscopic things and add both the Shanti virus and Dr. Strauss virus?--MiamiVolts (talk) 22:44, 5 September 2007 (EDT)
  • Let's make sure we don't create an infobox category just for the sake of having a category. A corollary to that is that we try not to create arbitrary infobox categories with the sole purpose of being able to put multiple things into it, but instead one that provides a useful grouping of a large number of articles that are fundamentally different and therefore require a completely different set of variables. I think it's ok for us to leave it as an item for now. The most logical future infobox would probably be "diseases", but I don't think we have enough articles to warrant it yet. (Admin 22:53, 5 September 2007 (EDT))
  • That being said, I'd say either "Item" or "Thing" is most appropriate for this article. I'm leaning more towards "Thing" as it's more generic, but Item works just as well. (Admin 22:55, 5 September 2007 (EDT))
    • Actually, as I'm thinking about it, I think it should just go under Portal:Research. Not all the articles there are forced into another portal. For instance, algorithm and the list reside in research and that's about it. I think the Shanti virus would be fine in there, too. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 23:17, 5 September 2007 (EDT)
      • That's a much better fit. And actually, the virus probably belongs in the research series box, too, since it was the focus of Chandra's research for some time.--Hardvice (talk) 23:21, 5 September 2007 (EDT)
        • Again, as I said, I like "item" better than "thing" cause a virus is a physical thing. You can tell with a microscope that a microbe is there. The "things" portal contains abstract stuff like the symbols and markings. And I don't like labelling a biological entity as a research item (that's why I moved it out of "research" to begin with), but I'm okay with being out-voted ;) PS: if we do later decide to add a new portal for diseases, we could stretch it (yeah, it would be a stretch given the limited info we have) by adding "Claire's chromosomal disease", "Sandra's brain damage" and "Charlie's brain tumor", in addition to my already mentioned "Shanti virus" and "Dr. Strauss's virus"--that's a max five thus far.--MiamiVolts (talk) 23:34, 5 September 2007 (EDT)