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[edit] cite claim

Original article stated that: "This is one of the factors of sex-selective abortion and infanticide in the country." Please cite sources for this claim. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 09:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Redirection needs to be removed

The redirection of Dowry death article to Bride burning is not correct. Bride burning is only a small percentage of Dowry deaths. A large percentage of dowry deaths are due to suicides by women, who are unable to handle the toture associated with dowry demand by husband or her in-laws. Indian National Crime Bureau lists dowry deaths as a crime[1] and it does not list a crime category called Bride burning. The statistics of "reported" Dowry deaths in India are available, where as there are no reliable citations mentioning the exact number of Bride burnings. We can correct this by merging Bride burning to Dowry death and expanding it to cover other categories of dowry deaths in the article on Dowry death.Newageindian 06:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I have created an independent article on topic by removing the merge to Bride burning. Newageindian 19:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

There is no need to merge Bride burning article to dowry deaths even though "Bride burning" is a small subset of dowry deaths. Given the publicity and attention bride burning has received in media in last 20 years, an independent article on the topic is a must. Newageindian 12:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for contributions

Dowry death is a very important topic on "Violence Against Women"(VAW) in south Asia. This needed an independent article. Bride Burning is only a subset of Dowry Deaths as most dowry deaths occure due to suicides by women. I will expand this article in next 2 weeks. I request all the editors to go through citations and contribute to this article. Newageindian 19:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I have added couple of additional links to the articles related to dowry deaths and also statistics of various categoies of dowry deaths(suicides by hanging, by burning, murder by poisoning etc). Newageindian 12:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unreferenced

I'm tagging this article as unreferenced. Please improve this article by verifying its claims using reliable sources--Cailil talk 01:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Please do it yourself the next time, google is your friend. Frankly i dont see the need to refernce it , If you feeling too lazy tell us where do you want a citation needed thingy :)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.214.75.140 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 1 December 2007
It's up to the editor adding material to reference it (see WP:PROVEIT) if they can't it will be removed. Google is not your friend - this article must be verified from reliable sources - if it's not from a reliable source it goes. In the case of this article whole sections are unreferenced - adding {{fact}} would create excessive markup, a single page template is more desirable (see WP:CUR)--Cailil talk 23:03, 1 December 2007 (UTC)