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A fact from Female infanticide in India appeared on Misplaced Pages's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 January 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries? A record of the entry may be seen at Misplaced Pages:Recent additions/2014/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Female infanticide in India.

June 1986

User:OccultZone, hi. this edit was switched back to 1985 but the source here gives "June 1986" for the India Today Born to Die cover story. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:01, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

@In ictu oculi: Article was DYK, and today I saw that you changed the year. Thanks for keeping it calm, I have self-reverted. OccultZone (Talk) 02:16, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, there seem to be three sources in Google Books citing this article. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:21, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Revert, why

Please stop removing the image, it is for illustrative purposes and is fine. Also the change of dates (unexplained) and the use of primary sources. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:12, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Per WP:IMAGE RELEVANCE "Images are primarily meant to inform readers by providing visual information. Consequently, images should look like what they are meant to illustrate, even if they are not provably authentic images." The image stays. Darkness Shines (talk) 16:40, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Neutrality issues

This article is not neutral. It summarizes sources that highlight and present "high estimates" of female infanticide, but does not summarize sources that provide alternate "lower estimates" or question the high estimates. A neutral presentation would present all sides, high and low. There is plenty of reliable scholarly sources for the different sides. SamanthaBooth (talk) 17:35, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

And, bollocks. Thanks for coming. Darkness Shines (talk) 17:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

You reverted my edit, asking for a source! I already provided it: Christophe Z Guilmoto, Sex imbalances at birth Trends, consequences and policy implications, United Nations Population Fund, Hanoi (October 2011), ISBN 978-974-680-338-0, p. 49. Why did you remove it here? SamanthaBooth (talk) 17:47, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

For further explanation of neutrality issues in this article, see here. SamanthaBooth (talk) 20:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

This article is highly biased and racist. I shall be editing it suitably.ShoeMacneil (talk) 05:12, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

I also see that this is a GA nominee. This article sucks and is undeserving of GA status. ShoeMacneil (talk) 05:14, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

How is the article racist? And it is most certainly deserving of GA status. Darkness Shines (talk) 08:31, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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