Talk:Anna Haining Bates

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Guinness Books tell us she was actually 7 ft 5 1/2 inches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.204.59 (talk) 21:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Most web sites say that she was 7 ft and 11 inches tall

I reverted the vagina-depth edit thinking it was vandalism. In fact, it turns up on the net several places, with most people having a guess that it must have been the biggest because she was so tall. However, anyone who stands 2.27 meters tall is not going to have a vagina 2.3 meters deep no matter how much wishful thinking goes on, so my revert stands as-is. Beej71 22:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Contested statements removed to talk

• She reportedly weighed 8.1 kg (19 pounds) when she was born and was 69 cm (27 inches) long{{Fact|date=April 2007}}.
• She was discovered in the fall of 1862 by P.T. Barnum, at which time she was 7 feet 2 and a half inches tall.{{Fact|date=January 2007}}
• Even today, the Bates' son remains the largest baby ever to be born.{{Fact|date=February 2008}}

Please do not restore this information to the article without a citation.--BirgitteSB 03:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Stone Measuring System?

What's with the stone measuring system? The wikipedia article about it says it is unofficial. I've never seen it, and 2 measuring systems are enough, so I'm removing it. McBenjamin (talk) 01:00, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

14 lbs are a stone. The Wikipedia article foregrounds the stone's historic significance, and its perpetual (if unofficial) use to speak of weights for humans. After all, one sounds much more buff saying you weigh 15 stone than 210 lbs... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcksnian (talk • contribs) 22:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

References

Discrepency in son measurements

On the issue of height and weight:

• page currently says 23 pounds 12 ounces and nearly 34 inches tall per http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4191765.stm
• possibly 9.98 kg (22 lb) and measuring 71.12 cm (28 in) per http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/heaviest-birth

Which do we go with? Ranze (talk) 07:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I removed the BBC news source. It only mentions the baby's weight in passing, and no baby has ever been confirmed to weigh that much. Solrivy (talk) 16:34, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Correcting height

Before my edit today, this article gave her height as 7'6", which is clearly incorrect, because in all extant photos, Anna Haining Bates is clearly the same height as or even taller than her husband Martin Van Buren Bates. I've changed the article to reflect the numbers from Guinness World Records. Shugurim (talk) 05:52, 29 March 2022 (UTC)