Talk:Larry Wheels

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Looking for a photo

If anyone is aware of a good place to find a page photo, please let me know. Larry has an extensive media presence so shouldn't be hard but I'm honestly not sure what kind of photos are fair for Wikipedia. Pkoroly (talk) 19:35, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Personal records

If it's helpful, can someone add his personal bests. mcloco95 (no) (talk) 19:35, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anatoly

In Special:Diff/1289073831 ("do not think that this is notable enough to be included in article, not every collab/video needs to be noted") the following sentence + citation was removed:

In 2024, Wheels produced an hour-long video together with Ukrainian weightlifter Vladimir Shmondenko (Antoly).^{[a 1]}

^ Iver, Radha (2024-07-12). ""Hired the Worlds Best Cleaner": Larry Wheels Announces Surprise Collab With Prankster Powerlifter Anatoly". The Sports Rush. Retrieved 2025-05-05. Vladimir Shmondenko, … new stage set up by fellow powerlifting icon Larry Wheels. … hour-long video

Per WP:BRD process, a discussion should then have been be opened. As of two weeks later no discussion has been opened by the reverter—thusly it would seem correct to restore the removed content + reference. —Sladen (talk) 07:19, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, sorry, that was my deletion--didn't realize the process. My thoughts:

The fact doesn't fit under "Bodybuilding career"--Anatoly is a powerlifter and really doesn't focus on physique. Seems like it should belong under a different section, perhaps "Social media career" or something to that effect.
I'm also still not sure that the video is on its own notable enough to be included in the article. It's not one of his most viewed videos and it doesn't seem to have spurned anything particularly notable in Larry's career, nor did it spurn a lot of talk from quality sources--though to be fair, we kinda have to be ok with less-than-scholarly sources in writing Wikipedia pages on strength athletes--and Anatoly himself isn't a super notable figure, just a decently popular social media figure.

I'm not entirely convinced it belongs, but if you think it belongs and you want to add it under a new "Social media career" section (or something to that effect--not sure what the best phrasing would be), I'd say re-add it. Pkoroly (talk) 04:03, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Also am just generally cautious about the page getting kinda bloated with unsourced or irrelevant information, as many strength athletes' pages tend to get--like, the info box is full of random stats about PRs, measurements, etc. with zero context or sourcing. I've seen the PRs and I know they're real, but they were all performed to different standards, none were performed in competition, and I don't think they really belong there. It'd be like putting Tom Brady's longest pass in his Wiki infobox--it belongs elsewhere if it belongs anywhere.) Pkoroly (talk) 04:05, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removing clutter from infobox

Not sure how to go about this process, but I believe that the "Best statistics" section of the infobox should be removed. It's unsourced, it's cluttered, it doesn't adhere to the format of other notable powerlifters or bodybuilders, and it doesn't seem to adhere to the typical format of most athletes' pages.

Personal records are featured on some athletes' infoboxes (looking at Usain Bolt and Lasha Talakhadze), but those are competition bests while I believe that the numbers featured here are training bests. (I think training bests need to be removed from a lot of lifters' wiki pages, but that's another project entirely) Anyways, just think we should try to keep things clean and efficient. Pkoroly (talk) 18:56, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[iver-20240712-1] Iver, Radha (2024-07-12). ""Hired the Worlds Best Cleaner": Larry Wheels Announces Surprise Collab With Prankster Powerlifter Anatoly". The Sports Rush. Retrieved 2025-05-05. Vladimir Shmondenko, … new stage set up by fellow powerlifting icon Larry Wheels. … hour-long video

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