Talk:Randy Orton
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Semi-protected edit request on 6 September 2025
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The entire contents of the article that was added here has been removed.
This user (213.175.160.31) wants to change the person's weight from being 275 lb to 290 lb in the infobox. The exact changes wanting to be made are here:
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|weight = 290 lb<ref>{{lien web|langue=en|titre=Randy Orton reveals the real secret to how he got so big after returning to WWE|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/news-randy-orton-reveals-real-secret-got-big-returning-wwe|site=sportskeeda.com|consulté le=13 mai 2025}}</ref> |
This should hopefully make it easier for other users to review and respond to this protected edit request. It's also improperly formatted, so I'll fix that too... ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 09:50, 6 September 2025 (UTC)
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Done. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 09:55, 6 September 2025 (UTC)
Year correct
"would become the youngest world champion in WWE history after he won WWE's World Heavyweight Championship in 2006." He won it in 2004 actually. 89.151.17.22 (talk) 19:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
GA Reassessment
Randy Orton
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Another wrestling page that got a GA nearly 20 years ago but over the years has fallen well below what's expected from a GA in my eyes.
- Article is bloated with superfluous detail, and is well over 12,000 words.
- Article isn't very engaging, it's primarily just a string of repetitive "And then at the PPV Randy did this. And then on the next episode of Raw, Randy did this. And then..." . This also means there's some paragraphs that are just gigantic walls of dense text that I can't seriously believe many are sitting down to read (The Authority/Legacy sections for example).
- No coverage of Randy's reception from critics and the wrestling world, except a WP:PEACOCK in the second sentence of the lede declaring him one of the best wrestlers ever and using the likes of WWE-only lists and top-5 lists to prove it (including a perennial source violation through sportskeeda). I don't see how you can say an article covers a wrestler to GA standard without a section dedicated to this.
- Plenty of citation needed tags, including some that have been there for over five years.
In general, I would say many of the WWE-related GAs need a review, but this is the one that caught my eye recently as it's particularly egregious. RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 19:46, 16 March 2026 (UTC)