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Please help me in editing this page.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kchaitanya21 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Data on malnutrition

As a nutrtionist from Maharashtra i feel that since the causative factors vary with states , the data on malnutrition would go a long way to develop strategies to combat malnutrition — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmannuru (talk • contribs) 11:15, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merger of "Malnutrition in XXX" articles to this article

I think that having several articles discussing malnutrition in various parts of India is too fine a level of detail, and that the information can best be presented in this article. Any comments? Kittensandrainbows (talk) 03:11, 2 March 2010 (UTC) And besides which, most of the sub-articles contain the exact same text just with the figures replaced. Kittensandrainbows (talk) 03:15, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. They should all be merged, I suggest you making a table in this article. --FredZ (talk) 03:18, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge if you want but India is a large country (in terms of population) that has a large maltrition problem what would be wrong with having a finer leval of detail? Venustas 12 (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Good question, but try looking at it another way: why do you need a finer level of detail? The eight articles are all only three or four sentences long at the moment, and contain the same text: you could make a table with the information and put it in the main article. Is there going to be so much information specific to each location with its associated sources and citations that the Malnutrition in India article will get horribly bloated? Kittensandrainbows (talk) 03:24, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes,If you merge all the articles Malnutrition in India may get bloated but I may be looking at it from the wrong side Venustas 12 (talk) 06:38, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: the book Starvation and India's democracy by Dan Banik, focuses particularly on starvation in Orissa. There may be region-specific factors that should begin as subsections of Famine in India and branch when necessary. Note that Orissa alone has a population of 36 million, so when there's material, such an article wouldn't be too fine-grained.--Carwil (talk) 16:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse merge. Each of those articles currently presents just a couple of statistics with minimal contextualization (and a link to an article on an organization of dubious notability.) It would all fit in a single paragraph or small table. When and if this article becomes too long then it may be appropriate to fork some sub-topics, but that is not now the case. ~ Ningauble (talk) 12:54, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The abovementioned article on an organization of dubious notability has been deleted. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:23, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Since this discussion has been dormant for a year without action, I've removed the merge tag from Malnutrition in Kerala. Khazar2 (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Moving Some Information to Malnutrition

I am currently working on the malnutrition article, and I think that certain details would fit better in that article. For example, the breakdown of the Gomez Classification is a measure of malnutrition, and does not pertain to India exclusively. I propose to relocate general information to the malnutrition page in the coming week. Any comments or suggestions? Khatchell (talk) 07:14, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issues?

It seems that lot of material is copy pasted. I am afraid that there can be copyright issues. Experts can have a look at it and can suggest. Thank you. -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 12:00, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I am a student at University of California, Berkeley, and will be contributing to this article as part of my Global Poverty and Practice course assignments. After reviewing the article, there are many technical issues to be improved, such as adding or updating citations. The section regarding sanitation is extremely problematic. I also found some possible plagiarizing, although it's hard to tell if external websites I found with the exact same wording within “Malnutrition in India” were the source, or if the external websites simply copied from this article, given the lack of citations.

My course focus deals primarily with malnutrition, specifically anemia within rural women living in India. As of now, I plan on adding to the “Nutritional trends of various demographic groups” section, by expanding upon nutritional issues experienced from low-income groups, in particular rural women. I also believe it may be worth adding another section, expanding upon the different forms of malnutrition touched upon in the articles introduction, such as anemia.

As the year progresses, I will be working on various topics within this article and appreciate any feedback regarding these issues. Zooshoe (talk) 09:21, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Added image

I added an image to this article. The subject is challenging to illustrate so I chose a photo of food in India which got an award in Wikimedia Commons. If anyone has a better picture then feel free to change or move this one. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Updated statistics

In November 2015 user:Aumnamahashiva posted a request for someone to update the numbers on this page as many are 10+ years old. I am looking at sources now. We are not certain to get up to date national statistics regularly, so I think the solution is to write in general terms without numbers for most of the article then have some epidemiology numbers in some places. I am thinking for now.

I am removing the problem template from the top because the major problem is not in the lead, and the next section has a 2017 update. Blue Rasberry (talk) 03:03, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted sanitation section

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I deleted this content mostly because it has no sources and Wikipedia requires sources. It also makes some specific international comparisons without context. If anyone wants to check the content to salvage something by matching it to sources then have a try. Blue Rasberry (talk) 03:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely high traffic article

Integrated Child Development Services

The Wikipedia article for this nutrition organization gets 3x the pageviews of this nutrition article. This is unusually, because almost always, the social issue is more popular than any organization addressing it. Normally when this happens somehow people are looking for a social issue and they land on the organization. I do not think that is happening in this case. Something strange is here, or maybe somehow the organization is generally popular? Blue Rasberry (talk) 03:18, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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