Talk:Exercise equipment

message: I intend to make Exercise machine a somewhat more detailed explanation of the machine aspects of exercise machines.  I would have subordinated it to Exercise equipment myself otherwise.  Exercise equipment can still have a cursory coverage of exercise machines, and should include all of the other kinds of equipment that do not involve machines.
--24.221.8.253 04:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  re merge request 

message: There seems to me to be a rather obvious omission, Multi-gym (Multigym) or in the US Home-Gym, but i'm not sure as these are very commonly found even in health centres etc. they'll be in someplace, but i can't find a separate article elsewhere under either term, or inclusion in the above mentioned exercise machine article so it would seem it has been missed, anyway i'll add it and if it's already in under another heading i guess someone will just revert it. Javabyte (talk) 20:17, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  why no Multigym? 

message: I've added a couple of templates to this page.  The tone is not appropriate for Wikipedia, the page does not use Wikipedia's standard layout, and it uses the second person inappropriately.  
I am also mildly concerned about the possibility of a conflict of interest on the part of Jqarta, particularly given that the history of this page includes this summary from Jqarta: 
 Cleaned up and added additional marterial relevent to subject at hand. Info obtained and referenced from our website." 
(emphasis added, obviously)  I think it's a relatively minor problem, if at all, but having noticed it I feel obliged to point it out.  I think it's more likely to be good faith edits by someone who has not spent a great deal of time at the site.
:Btw, the remainder of that comment 'from our website' doesn't show up on my default view of the talk page.  It cuts off at "at hand".
:~ender 2013-06-16 12:42:PM MST
I'll see what I can do about starting to clean this up, but I'm rather busy with a number of 3D projects, so I'll be delighted if someone else jumps in and tackles this.
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 23:36, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Needs a Serious Rework 

message: I removed the majority of this this article as it was a WP:COPYVIO of http://www.exerciseline.com/shop.php?a=guide. I went through the article's history and it appears that the entire article was replaced with the copyright violation. Here is the last version of the article before that happened. I thought about reverting back to that, but both versions are unsourced, so I just left it as is. If, however, somebody wants to revert back to the other version, I have no objection. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:46, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, but no, it cannot be reverted back. Please see Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia content must be released to CC-BY-SA and GFDL. If the content is not released under these licenses, it is to be removed. Even if the content is properly rewritten, we would need to find a reliable source for it, as that link does not meet the criteria. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:02, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

text: That would bring us to the reliability issue. The article does not meet the Wikipedia definition of a reliable source. Per WP:RS, "Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". Basing the article on an unreliable source would not be a good way to go. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I'm not at trying to imply that the article's content is false or even unreliable by the dictionary definition of the word, just by the Wikipedia's policy definition. The same would be true for manufacturers' websites. These types of sources are considered primary sources and are very tricky to use correctly. The types of sources we need for this article (and any article) to be based on are (from WP:RS) university-level textbooks, books published by respected publishing houses, magazines, journals, mainstream newspapers, etc. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:33, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: Do we have any background as to the years when certain equipment were invented or first introduced?
Very interested in this but Wikipedia doesn't seem to cover "decade leg press was invented" or "century lat pulldown was introduced" and so on. WakandaQT (talk) 15:51, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: history and years