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Margaret Sanger[edit]

Regarding this recent edit by the anonymous IP editor, the article for Margaret Sanger, currently opens like this:

"Margaret Higgins Sanger ... was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America."

The only occurrence of the word "infanticide" is this:

"In China, she observed that the primary method of family planning was female infanticide, and she later worked with Pearl Buck to establish a family planning clinic in Shanghai."

Martinevans123 (talk) 11:10, 20 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Game Designer[edit]

Wells wrote "Little Wars" the first modern wargame meant for non military use, but just for fun :) This should be discussed also, theres no measuring how much this has changed the world we live in .. its incalculable by mere mortals :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2402:A040:207:E196:C10B:442:86EA:5018 (talk) 09:16, 3 July 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Parliamentary candidate[edit]

According to London University (UK Parliament constituency), someone named H. G. Wells unsuccessfully stood for election to Parliament in the London University constituency for the Labour Party in 1922 and 1923. The article links here, implying that this candidate was the subject of this article, but no sources attest to his identity and his candidature is not mentioned here. Hairy Dude (talk) 13:43, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]