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Introduction

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Hi, I am a student at Rice University pursing the minor in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities. I am always looking for more ways to improve this article. I am looking for feedback and general tips. I hope to continue improving this article Kristudent194 (talk) 10:59, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I love the addition about Texas which prompted me to include massachusetts. I am thinking of adding Mississippi, I also added more information about Doulas. I think thereis a lot that can be done. I hope you keep working on it. Wpcheha (talk) 03:37, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 03:35, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Kristudent194 (talk). Self-nominated at 11:52, 14 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Maternal Care Deserts in America; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • current cleanup banner in the article will need to be fixed before this article can be promoted at DYK. Additionally, I'm not sure the second hook is good. Women with uncomplicated pregnancy may not face any dangers due to lack of medical care. The source would need to meet WP:MEDRS. (t · c) buidhe 08:17, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The nominator, Kristudent194, has not edited Wikipedia since Dec. 19. Unless the user returns, or someone is willing to take over this nomination, I am closing this as abandoned. Z1720 (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1a invites the obvious question "more dangerous than what"? so obviously needs clarification. Gatoclass (talk) 05:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I think that makes it more "hooky". Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ALTa looks fine, except that the figure of 36% is not in the article. Other than that, there are still a couple of in-text tags that need addressing. Gatoclass (talk) 06:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Mary Mark Ockerbloom: It's been a few days since the above comment, will you be able to address the remaining issues? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Narutolovehinata5 and Z1720: Thanks for catching that, and for your patience. I have now fact-checked and cited all of the data given in the Wikipedia article. There were a couple of places where secondary sources had rounded up numbers from the march of dimes reports, so I cited the originals as better numbers. MOD gives "34.9" as the percentage of counties in 2020, and "35.6" in Table 2 in its 2022 report. The BMJ, also cited, states "Some 1119 of the nation’s 3143 counties are maternity care deserts, a 2% increase since the 2020 report." Given that, I would like to propose the following instead:
What Paul said. Gatoclass (talk) 13:55, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If we use a more accurate number, as given below, ALTa could pass as:
ALTa2 looks fine, except that you don't appear to have a source for the total number of US counties (3143 according to the article). Gatoclass (talk) 11:58, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Gatoclass: Thanks for catching that, I've fixed ALTa2. Table 2 of the 2022 report shows a total of 3,142 counties. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 13:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.
Overall: ALTa2 verified. Thank you for taking the trouble to rescue this important nom Mary! Gatoclass (talk) 14:02, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

capitalization

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@Kristudent194, thank you for writing this article! On Wikipedia, we write titles in sentence case, and "Maternal care desert" does not seem to be a proper name, per se, so it should be rendered in sentence case in the article title. Remsense 11:59, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]