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Review: April 20, 2020. (Reviewed version).

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

A fact from Disease X appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 April 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that experts on the World Health Organization's emergency committee believe that COVID-19 could be the first Disease X?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Disease X.

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Section sizes

Section size for Disease X (14 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	1,503	1,503
Rationale	9,615	9,615
Adoption	9,829	9,829
Strategy	1,373	1,373
Candidates	15	8,541
Zoonotic viruses	1,364	6,278
COVID-19 (2019–present)	4,914	4,914
Synthetic viruses/bioweapons	1,466	1,466
Bacterial infection	782	782
In popular culture	1,664	1,664
Conspiracy theories	1,214	1,214
See also	202	202
References	28	28
External links	1,047	1,047
Total	35,016	35,016

Oxford spellings?

I assume British spellings were used because of Disease X being a concept named by the World Health Organization. With that being the case, it should use Oxford spellings to conform to UN standards. Master of Time (talk) 23:04, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]