Talk:Joe Weider

Betty Weider info

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

She wrote many an article for the magazines. She usually attended the Olympia competitions.20 June 2009, 70.71.26.210

The article on Betty Brosmer is now a redirect, due to lack of reliable sources. She definitely deserves her own article and more mention as a pinup model, if someone can find a reliable source. Don't know which name she should be listed under.(mercurywoodrose)76.232.8.110 (talk) 05:35, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

bettyweider.com is to all appearances her official site, and the cited books use her married name, so apparently she uses her married name. I changed the Betty Brosmer redirect into a short article so it can grow and grow, hopefully the the full proportions she deserves. I will also put in a request to move that article to Betty Weider with a redirect. 68.174.97.122 (talk) 20:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Birth

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.

Corporate wealth/personal wealth

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).

One important fact that whoever wrote this article, I guess doesn't know or isn't aware of. The Weider Brothers owned their companies themselves. They were not public held or shared. Many things because of that do not have to be of public knowledge. 12 June 2009 User:Doc Kloepfer

The sports work group for the biography project doesnt include bodybuilding. if someone thinks he should be considered a sportsman, then he needs to be included in that workgroup.(mercurywoodrose)76.232.8.110 (talk) 05:35, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

I would say Weider Nutrition should be the name for the new article.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

How is his name pronounced?

Weeder? Wider? Wader? Can someone who knows add a pronounciation key? Thanks! Grumpy otter (talk) 16:35, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

It's pronounced "Weeder" or (WĒD-ər).--Quartet 21:49, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

This is correct - Weeder is the pronunciation. I am a family member.

He was never Josef. He was Joseph. Josef is a spelling some of his enemies adopted long ago.

He was not married to Vicky. She was his first love but just a girlfriend in Montreal before he left for the US. SeriouslyEffective (talk) 01:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Home

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)

Issues with photo JoeWeiderPortrait.jpg

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)

I see that phony photo finally got nuked. About time.Henrydeutschendorf (talk) 03:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Olympia book

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)