Talk:Diabetes in India

A fact from Diabetes in India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that every sixth person in the world who has diabetes is from India?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Yoninah (talk) 10:51, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that one in six people with diabetes in the world is from India? Source: Source
- ALT1:... that every sixth person in the world who has diabetes is an Indian? Source: Source
- ALT2:... that every sixth diabetic in the world is an Indian? Source: Source

Created by Shanze1 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:05, 30 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

This is a very well-written and fairly comprehensive article--new and long enough. QPQ not required. No copyvio detected per Earwig. I like the original hook best. Cheers! Kingoflettuce (talk) 13:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this, and noted one paragraph that lacks a cite, per WP:DYKSG#D2. It also appears that the list under "National Diabetes Control Program" is copied from the source. Could you summarize it in your own words instead? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 22:31, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed the list and cited the paragraph too. Shanze1 (talk) 04:09, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. You'll see I did a little more editing. Restoring tick per Kingoflettuce's review. Yoninah (talk) 10:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Diabetes % and Population %[edit]

It seems a bit odd to highlight that "One in six people in the world" with diabetes are in India when one in six people in the world without diabetes are also in India. As the next phrase points out, the % of people with diabetes is actually _lower_ than the world average (17% of the world's diabetes cases; 17.5% of the world's overall population).Dcheney (talk) 09:16, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dcheney, I think you misunderstood. It doesn't also mean that one in six people without diabetes are from India. "Every sixth diabetic is an Indian" - that's what it means. Also, 17% is not below the world average. The world average is about 9.2%. 17.5% as the article states is the percentage of the world's population that is of India)