Talk:Greg Noll

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According to his [IMDB entry] and [this website], his birth name was Greg Lawhead. This isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. Should it be? 68.7.48.214 (talk) 09:03, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hardly a neutral treatment of the subject. Hyperbole needs toning down and sourcing would help, if any of these glowing adjectives is justified. Umbertoumm (talk) 21:10, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It did need some work. I've toned down the language a bit and added some refs. David Woodward (talk) 14:29, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some more refs:

• http://files.legendarysurfers.com/surf/legends/lsc208.html
• Drew Kampion, Greg Noll, Greg Noll: The Art of the Surfboard, 2007, published by: Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah
  ISBN 978-1-58685-776-9
• http://www.surfline.com/surfing-a-to-z/greg-noll-biography-and-photos_871/

David Woodward (talk) 14:29, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

refs above all now on page David Woodward (talk) 16:44, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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This was added, unsourced, by a short-lived SPA. Some of the other edits this person made don’t look so bad, but this one fails the giggle test. Qwirkle (talk) 16:04, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I just removed it. I could find no reliable sources for these numbers, although they are widely reported in unreliable sources. As you say, the notion that he weighed 143 pounds is laughable. He was known as "Da Bull" and the NYT says he "had a bodybuilder's physique". [1] -- MelanieN (talk) 01:10, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]