Talk:Tulip breaking virus

Viruses High‑importance

	Viruses portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Viruses, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of viruses on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.VirusesWikipedia:WikiProject VirusesTemplate:WikiProject Virusesvirus articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Plants High‑importance

	Plants portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of plants and botany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PlantsWikipedia:WikiProject PlantsTemplate:WikiProject Plantsplant articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Semiprotected

why is this page semiprotected? Protonk (talk) 16:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added a request to WP:RFPP to remove this page. diff. Protonk (talk) 17:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Guess that's fixed. :) Protonk (talk) 17:33, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-Mottle-Virus

Based on a preliminary Babelfish translation, the German article appears to be about the "Lily Mottle Virus", a different though closely related virus that attacks primarily lilies. --Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty | Averted crashes} 20:19, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lead/Body not balanced

The lead talks of the Tulip mania but this is not discussed in the text - surely there needs to be a brief section on this? Similarly, reference is made at the end to fine 'broken' tulips but these had not been mentioned until then. Needs tidying, with a section describing the commercial importance of tulips, the virus and the mania, and probably the aftermath too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Italics

Since "Tulip breaking virus" is not a systematic name or even a single virus, there is no reason to put it in italics. Unfortunately {{Virusbox}} still applies italics automatically and provides no way to turn them off. Hairy Dude (talk) 02:37, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted my removal of italics as it turns out the literature supports this usage. I feel like it's incorrect, but I'm not going to contradict the people who know what they're talking about :) Hairy Dude (talk) 02:59, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]