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What, no mention of Betty Weider? Not only should she be mentioned, she should have an article of her own. How about it? her website: [1] 12 June 2007, 4.254.115.216
Both brothers were born in Montreal, their parents immigrated from Poland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckent1 ( talk • contribs) 23:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Joe Weider's official birth records were destroyed in a fire (reference: Brothers of Iron: Building the Weider Empire by Joe Weider, Published Sept. 1, 2006. page 5). Of the surviving documents they say he was born anywhere between 1919 and 1922. Which is likely in error since this would make Joe less than three months older than his brother, Ben, who was born in 1923.
It is most likely Joe was born in 1919, since he states in his autobiography "Brothers of Iron" on page 11, that there were about three years between when Joe finished Grade 7 and when Ben left school. In the New York Times article, "Ben Weider, Who Helped Popularize Bodybuilding, Dies at 85" from October 20, 2008, it states Ben also left school after the seventh grade. Thus, there are about three years age difference between the two brothers, which would make Joe born in 1919. TO BE SURE
However, Joe likes to say he was born somewhere between 1919 and 1922. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckent1 ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC) I actually know for a fact that the Weiders started in 1936, when Joe was 17. That means he was actually born in 1919. So there.
There should be dollar figures here for the scale of the Weider enterprise; and I can't remember if there's a Category:Canadian millionaires but there certainly is a Category:Canadian billionaires or something to that effect; not sure if he quite clears that bar (yet). One of Canada's most commercially-successful sports people; Weider Inc. should probably have an article in WP:Companies...`` Skookum1 ( talk) 04:20, 20 May 2009 (UTC).
Weeder? Wider? Wader? Can someone who knows add a pronounciation key? Thanks! Grumpy otter ( talk) 16:35, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
I think he lives in California, and he must have lived there in the past at least. Anyone with solid refs, bring em. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 04:03, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Beyond that this is clearly a publicity photo of Weider that's been altered - he never actually looked like that, what proof is there that user Tblinn actually holds the copyright and was entitled to submit it to Wikimedia Commons? It's full of dust specks, clearly it's been scanned. Scanned from some publication? This user has had permissions issues before regarding both text and images.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tblinn Henrydeutschendorf ( talk) 03:10, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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The biblio entry for the book The Olympians: The Story of the Mr. Olympia Contest listed its publication date as August 1, 1958, which is also the year shown in Google Books. Given that the first Mr. Olympia wasn't until 1965, this date seems... unlikely. Amazon lists the book as having been published in 1983, which is far more believable, so I'm going to update the entry accordingly. -- FeRDNYC ( talk) 03:13, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
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What, no mention of Betty Weider? Not only should she be mentioned, she should have an article of her own. How about it? her website: [1] 12 June 2007, 4.254.115.216
Both brothers were born in Montreal, their parents immigrated from Poland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckent1 ( talk • contribs) 23:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Joe Weider's official birth records were destroyed in a fire (reference: Brothers of Iron: Building the Weider Empire by Joe Weider, Published Sept. 1, 2006. page 5). Of the surviving documents they say he was born anywhere between 1919 and 1922. Which is likely in error since this would make Joe less than three months older than his brother, Ben, who was born in 1923.
It is most likely Joe was born in 1919, since he states in his autobiography "Brothers of Iron" on page 11, that there were about three years between when Joe finished Grade 7 and when Ben left school. In the New York Times article, "Ben Weider, Who Helped Popularize Bodybuilding, Dies at 85" from October 20, 2008, it states Ben also left school after the seventh grade. Thus, there are about three years age difference between the two brothers, which would make Joe born in 1919. TO BE SURE
However, Joe likes to say he was born somewhere between 1919 and 1922. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckent1 ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC) I actually know for a fact that the Weiders started in 1936, when Joe was 17. That means he was actually born in 1919. So there.
There should be dollar figures here for the scale of the Weider enterprise; and I can't remember if there's a Category:Canadian millionaires but there certainly is a Category:Canadian billionaires or something to that effect; not sure if he quite clears that bar (yet). One of Canada's most commercially-successful sports people; Weider Inc. should probably have an article in WP:Companies...`` Skookum1 ( talk) 04:20, 20 May 2009 (UTC).
Weeder? Wider? Wader? Can someone who knows add a pronounciation key? Thanks! Grumpy otter ( talk) 16:35, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
I think he lives in California, and he must have lived there in the past at least. Anyone with solid refs, bring em. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 04:03, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Beyond that this is clearly a publicity photo of Weider that's been altered - he never actually looked like that, what proof is there that user Tblinn actually holds the copyright and was entitled to submit it to Wikimedia Commons? It's full of dust specks, clearly it's been scanned. Scanned from some publication? This user has had permissions issues before regarding both text and images.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tblinn Henrydeutschendorf ( talk) 03:10, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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The biblio entry for the book The Olympians: The Story of the Mr. Olympia Contest listed its publication date as August 1, 1958, which is also the year shown in Google Books. Given that the first Mr. Olympia wasn't until 1965, this date seems... unlikely. Amazon lists the book as having been published in 1983, which is far more believable, so I'm going to update the entry accordingly. -- FeRDNYC ( talk) 03:13, 26 December 2020 (UTC)