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A fact from Preterm birth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 December 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?

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According to the introduction, from 1990 to 2015, pre-term birth deaths fell by nearly 50%. In the eight years since then, it's possible that they've fallen significantly more. As a result, the penultimate introduction sentence (rates of survival per week), which reports data from 2016, may be out of date — if deaths continue to fall, chances of survival per week will necessarily change, so we need something newer. Even if the statistics haven't changed, we ought to use a much newer source to say this. Nyttend (talk) 03:29, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding this removal of cited content by Avatar317, no, historical misunderstandings by leading representatives of the cultural traditions of ~40% of the human population are relevant. If there are other articles with similarly relevant content, you should be leaving those alone too. (That said, yeah, of course WP:FRINGE ideas shouldn't be given WP:UNDUE—or sometimes any—mention. This ain't that, though.)

Also, of course, that's just my opinion and you're welcome to do a WP:RFC to see if more editors agree with your take on this particular one. — LlywelynII 20:30, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is UNDUE. My edit summary summarizes my point: "there have been lots of misconceptions regarding every topic in medicine" - there is no reason to list every fringe or idiotic idea humans have had about any topic. ---Avatar317 ^(talk) 23:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, it ain't, owing to its importance. Here's the actual link to WP:UNDUE again, so you can notice the "tiny minority" wording and how that very much doesn't apply here.

That said, sure, let's let future editors fix your blanking of relevant cited material and/or move it with the rest of the historical material if people think those misconceptions and developments belong on a forked page. — LlywelynII 22:53, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]