Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarva deslauriers
Providing a rationale for deletion which the nominator failed to do. Possible hoax. Known only for one event, if even that is verifiable, and fails |the notability guideline for biographies. The subject of the article is claimed to be "the smallest baby ever born," with a birth weight of 2 pounds, 2 ounces, or 964 grams. This is an extremely low birth weight, by present medical classification, but per http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16156449 there have apparently been smaller babies who were born alive, and who survived for appreciable some period of time. Babies with far lower birth weights have reportedly been born and survived: http://books.google.com/books?id=9c_7kxBsKzIC&pg=PA59&dq=%22birth+weight%22+%222+pounds%22&hl=en&ei=a3dQTq6iOqrF0AGW6PDrBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=survival&f=false. http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/growing/preemies.html says that presently 90% of babies over 800 grams survive. Granted, there have been advances since 1985, but some small preemies survived even then. Some reliable sources would be needed to verify that even at the time of this person's birth, it set any kind of record. At Google Book search and Google scholar, I could find no references to this person in relation to l;ow birth weight.  The one newspaper cited in the article is not available online, so I could not verify it. Even if the one newspaper article claimed this was "the smallest baby ever born," it would lack credibility to substantiate an extreme medical claim
— User:Edison, 03:18, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)