Talk:Randy Orton

GA Reassessment

Randy Orton

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Result: Delisted. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:12, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

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)

It's the problem with pro wrestlers. With every new week we have more problems. GA should be only for retired or dead wrestlers. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 09:55, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

While I think the article will be demoted, I reduced the 12.000 words to 9.818. There is plenty of room for summarize. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 12:53, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

• @HHH Pedrigree: When reviewing the article, I found some uncited statements and unreliable sources. Would you be interested in addressing these? If so, you can ping me and I'll give more details. Z1720 (talk) 01:10, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 22 August 2026

there is an error in the first paragraph, namely - "Orton debuted on the main roster in 2002, soon joining the Evolution stable, and as part of the group beaome the youngest world champion in WWE history"

beaome is not a word in the dictionary and it is clearly a typo, meant to say "become"

thank you for your time. Onizer (talk) 02:21, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done Bungle491 (talk) 02:47, 22 August 2026 (UTC)