Talk:Strongman

Ivan Poddubniy

I have a question. In the list of famous strongmen, how come Ivan Poddubniy, the famous Russian wrestler and strongman in the beginning of 20th Century, who worked out with a barbell that weighted 125 kg, and could stop a horse-drawn wagon by grabbing onto the back wheel, and was seen wrestling bulls to the ground by their horns, is not included? --SergeiXXX 01:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't you worry about it, Sergei; he allready is on the list. 84.87.138.105 12:51, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Use of the word "grassroots"

i think the use of the word grassroots is a bit weird, i would think such evenements would rather be organised by horeca then politics. when it's meant to mean locally, why not just use local, or perhaps use community, when it is meant to mean that, or regionally if what is meant is the subnational aspect. i think a serious term that tells a lot about more ideal or political movements should not be used for random party's or evenements, since some grassroots developments (most actually) are still part of a serious debate. could be i am oversensitive here, or that the initial writers of this article are from a region where such a use of the word is common, for me personally i have never seen it used worse, altho perhaps one or two times in a somewhat dubious context.24.132.171.225 (talk) 10:42, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Merge from Strength athlete

Strength athlete is a duplicate stub of this article. Suggesting:

• Merging contents of Strength athlete into Strongman (strength athlete)
• Turning Strength athlete into a #REDIRECT [[Strongman (strength athlete)]]

10:42, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Strongly Disagree. This article explicitly addresses only historical "strongman" competitions; there is far more duplication between Strongman (strength athlete) and Strength athletics (the latter of which deserves a more specific primary name)—I suggest merging those two articles. Strength athlete is still a stub, however it clearly describes a term that extends beyond strongman competitions: there are far more American football, rugby, and track and field competitors who consider themselves "strength athletes" than there are people who compete in strongman competitions. Rvcx (talk) 12:00, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I also disagree with the merge as Strength athlete clearly refers to strong sportspeople in general rather than anything to do with competitions or feats based on strength alone. I'm removing the merge tags now. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)^{Join WikiProject Athletics!} 12:10, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Also disagree with the merging. Instead weed out (and merge into there ->) what is circus strongman events (like the teeth pulling picture) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.226.238.167 (talk) 12:28, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

This discussion was ignored, or to be charitable, unknown, to the small group of editors who just deleted Category:Strongman and upmerged it into Category:Strength athletes, a case-in-point of editors with no knowledge of the topic deciding to change categories to suit guidelines, they claim, without any actual reference to or knowledge of the material in question.Skookum1 (talk) 05:42, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Oppose per discussion above. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 12:54, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Evidence of subjectivity

Under the Events section, the first sentence appears to be very subjective and thus deviates from WP:NPOV. Could someone please correct this? Thanks, Rubik's Maniac (talk) 05:43, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Error 404 link removed

I removed a link to http://www.worldstrongmanfederation.org/ as the site does not exist. Last time I did that a self appointed "God", (his user name was "Dia") took me to task, for removing a link,(even though it didn't exist). So here is a heads up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurtdriver (talk • contribs) 03:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 3 March 2022

• Strongman (strength athlete) → Strongman
• Strongman (politics) → Political strongman
• Strongman → Strongman (disambiguation)

– The athlete is primary topic by longterm significance, and the political usage, which is based on the athletic usage, can be naturally disambiguated. Therefore, this is not a WP:NOPRIMARY situation. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

• Support the primary topic move; neutral on the politician move. Even with the politician topic included, the athlete appears to be primary by usage, having as many views as all other topics combined: massviews here. -- Fyrael (talk) 21:43, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
• 'Support as per nominator. 14.2.195.135 (talk) 09:49, 9 March 2022 (UTC)