Talk:Patient zero (disambiguation)

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Requested move 11 April 2021

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.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 19:32, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

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Patient zero → Patient zero (disambiguation) – Primary article is most commonly used as a synonym for index case, and should be a redirect to that term. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 07:14, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

• Some numbers: Out of 2,700 views for this page in the month of February, 1,000 readers clicked on the redirect Patient zero (medical science). I would have assumed that this number would be higher. I do however support a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT, it's the meaning that most often appears in sources. The HIV patient zero is however the origin of the term, and the term does quite often refer to a HIV index case. – Thjarkur (talk) 07:54, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
• Weak support Index case is probably primary by long-term significance for the lower case though maybe not by usage given the film. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:16, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

  I'd also recommend moving the DAB to Patient Zero since all other uses are Title Case per WP:DABNAME like Friendly Fire but otherwise redirect the title case version to Patient zero (disambiguation) per WP:DIFFCAPS since its more logical someone capitalizing gets the DAB with the medical meaning as the 1st entry. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:02, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

• Support I think the move is justified as per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC — Saadrafiq4 (talk) 14:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom, considering that the individual first known by this designation was just a special instance of the term itself, and other uses are generally references to it. BD2412 T 14:38, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom and BD: I'm satisfied that Patient zero should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to Index case. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

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Short Story

Patient Zero, by Tananarive Due. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2000 August. This short story has also been republished in dozens of anthologies. The date puts it earlier than any of listed uses except for the medical one. agb 173.233.167.50 (talk) 18:02, 10 April 2023 (UTC)