Talk:1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom

message: It seems like this article is really a biography, but it has a strange name for a biography. Should this article really be called Janet Parker? Also, there is a request for an infobox. Which type of infobox is required? For a person, or some other kind for epidemics? BTW, I checked a few articles about epidemics, and it seems like they dont have infoboxes, more proof that this is supposed to be a biography. Let me know what to do here, and I will do it.  Mathdestruction (talk) 07:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography or history? 

message: i changed the page name to "Last known death from smallpox", because the old name "1978 smallpox cases in the United Kingdom" was inappropriate for two reasons. 
"outbreak" 
The page for "disease outbreak" says "Four linked cases of a rare infectious disease may be sufficient to constitute an outbreak." 
Two confirmed cases is not an outbreak. This incident only even gets to three cases if you count an unconfirmed case, who may have died of other causes. 
date and location 
The location and date in the title downplay the global significance. They belong in the introduction and infobox.
Previously i tried "1978 smallpox cases in the United Kingdom". The revert edit comment objected to that on the basis that it "suggests it is one of a series of articles on cases per year". To make it sound less like a series, I also considered "Post eradication smallpox cases in the United Kingdom", but while the last natural case was 1977, eradication wasn't declared till 1980. But if it's the last known death, we don't need to differentiate it from other locations or dates, so no need to put those in the title. 
Irtapil (talk) 00:17, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It was certainly an outbreak and it was fortunately controlled, which explains why there were only four cases. The date is important because it delayed the intended 1977 WHO eradication announcement until May 8, 1980. Graham Beards (talk) 06:40, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  but the number "1978" is not the important thing about the date, the important thing is "last", the number "1978" is meaningless because most people won't know what it is before or after, especially not most people looking it up on Wikipedia, so they won't know the significance of "1978". Irtapil (talk) 20:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Let it go. You are flogging a dead horse. Graham Beards (talk) 21:35, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   who? Irtapil (talk) 22:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

text: I'm pleased to see this discussion here. Since BOLD doesn't seem to have worked out this time, can I respectfully ask, please, that no more page moves are made without consensus being reached first? Thank you DBaK (talk) 10:18, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Irtapil, this is the second time you’ve tried to move the page without discussion and been reverted. I suggest that you establish consensus first. I also agree with Graham’s points and would add that WP:COMMONNAME indicates the current title. Sources refer to this as an outbreak e.g. Hugh Pennington (here) and the BBC (here). Current title is fine. DeCausa (talk) 14:59, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately, Irtapil has decided to edit war and moved the article again. DeCausa (talk) 18:15, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  page name 

message: Why is there no article on this outbreak? Google london 1973 smallpox outbreak for good sources. ^^^^^ 79.153.137.219 (talk) 16:19, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because no volunteer has written it yet and this is possibly because the outbreak was not notable enough for it's own article. Up until the 1930s, smallpox was endemic in the UK and cases were seen most years, albeit not to the high levels  recorded in the 19th century. Since the 1930s and up to the early 1970s, there were several outbreaks in the UK that originated from imported cases i.e. migrants from the Indian subcontinent. In the 1973 outbreak Sir Keith Joseph reported just three victims to Parliament, which was sad but very few and insignificant in a historical perspective, although the source of the infection was a hospital laboratory. The 1978 outbreak described here was notable because smallpox was about to be declared eradicated by the  World Health Organisation.- Graham Beards (talk) 17:59, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  London Smallpox Outbreak On the 4th April, 1973