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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue X — February 3, 2008

Project News

New Year's Revolution (2007) failed its Featured article nomination. Its nomination page can be found here.

AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship failed its Featured list nomination. Its nomination page can be found here.

Royal Rumble (2005) has been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions on how it can be improved before being nominated for Good Article status. The peer review can be found here.

Don Kent (wrestler), No Way Out (2004), Unforgiven (2004), Lisa Marie Varon, Torrie Wilson, SummerSlam (1994), and Ricky Banderas are currently Good article candidates.

Briscoe Brothers and King of the Ring (1994) have been elevated to Good article status.

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 327 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 32 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
- Feb. 10 - TNA presents Against All Odds
- Feb. 18 - WWE presents No Way Out
- Feb. 28 - Zenlax's birthday

Current Events

Former TNA professional wrestler Chris Harris has officially signed with World Wrestling Entertainment as confirmed by himself in his personal website.
Ron Killings and The Big Show are still being reported as to having signed WWE contracts. As there is no reliable source for anything of the sort, be prepared for their names to be continually added to the WWE Roster article and information about their returns being added to their own articles. There is also apparently an audio interview with Killings where he states he will be returning to WWE with his old K-Kwik gimmick.
Bobby Lashley is being reported to have been released by WWE. His profile has been removed from WWE.com. But again, there is no reliable source for his release, so be prepared to revert his removal from the roster article and edits to his own article.

Collaboration of the Week

The monthly featured article collaboration for February 3 through February 16 is Shawn Michaels. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, February 17.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member Interview

This week's interviewees are Zenlax (link) and ThinkBlue (link).

Next week's interviewees are Kris Classic and Alex Roggio. Submit a question to ask them here.

Articles for Deletion

Current: Category:Jillian Hall albums; Category:WrestleMania venues; WWE Byte This!

Kept: Velvet Sky.

Deleted: Mike Posey; Randy Dodge; The Pit Bulls; Schmitty Robinson; Brandon Smith; K.C. James and Idol Stevens; Mikey Nicholls; SlamTV!; Category:World Wrestling Entertainment model to appear in Playboy

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

*The number of stub articles increased this week, but a large jump in the number of total articles means that the percentage of stub articles still dropped from 21.63% to 21.51%. Please check out the stub article subpage to see what you can help with (even if you can only add a reference or two).

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	132	345		4	532
C	9	49	270	1,654		98	2,080
Start	2	47	335	4,914		280	5,578
Stub			2	279	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	805		807
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	10		12
Assessed	22	152	950	8,695	5,542	503	15,864
Unassessed		1		10	1	13	25
Total	22	153	950	8,705	5,543	516	15,889
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,542			Ω = 4.56

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XI — February 24, 2008

Project News

AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship failed its Featured list nomination. Its nomination page can be found here.
Royal Rumble (2005) and Over the Edge (1998) have been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Their peer reviews can be found here and here.
No Way Out (2004) and Torrie Wilson have been elevated to Good article status.
Don Kent (wrestler), Unforgiven (2004), Lisa Marie Varon, SummerSlam (1994), Ricky Banderas, New Year's Revolution (2007) and Jos LeDuc are currently Good article candidates.
This newsletter will now be issued every other week, per the discussion here.

Current Events

Former TNA professional wrestler Chris Harris has officially signed with World Wrestling Entertainment, as confirmed by himself in his personal website.
Ron Killings is still being reported as having signed a WWE contract. As there is no reliable source for anything of the sort, be prepared for his name to be continually added to the WWE Roster article, and information about his return being added to his article. There is also, apparently, an audio interview with Killings where he states he will be returning to WWE with his old K-Kwik gimmick. Recent SmackDown! Taping spoilers indicate that he debuted under the name Kwik Killings in a Dark match. No reliable source has reported this as of now, however.
Bobby Lashley has been released by WWE as of February 4
On February 7, WWE announced that it would cease it's affiliation with Ohio Valley Wrestling.
Also on February 7, WWE announced that SmackDown would be leaving The CW at the end of the 2007-2008 Television Season.

Articles for Deletion

Current:
Kept: Category:Jillian Hall albums; Velvet Sky.
Deleted: Mike Posey; Randy Dodge; The Pit Bulls; Category:WrestleMania venues; WWE Byte This!.

Collaboration of the Week

The monthly featured article collaboration for February 24 through March 2 is Mr. Kennedy. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, March 2.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 338 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 36 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
LAX has been promoted to admin status. His RfA can be seen here.
On the calendar:
- Feb. 17 - WWE presents No Way Out
- Feb. 24 - Steelerfan-94's birthday
- Feb. 28 - Zenlax's birthday
- Mar. 9 - TNA presents Destination X
- Mar. 25 - Kelan's birthday
- Mar. 26 - Govvy's birthday
- Mar. 30 - WWE presents WrestleMania XXIV

Member Interview

This week's interviewees are Kris Classic (link) and Alex Roggio (link).

Next week's interviewees are D.M.N. and 3bulletproof16. Submit a question to ask them here. 3bulletproof16 has confirmed that he will indeed be taking part in the interview, even though he has retired.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has dropped by 45 while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	132	345		4	532
C	9	49	270	1,654		98	2,080
Start	2	47	335	4,914		280	5,578
Stub			2	279	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	805		807
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	10		12
Assessed	22	152	950	8,695	5,542	503	15,864
Unassessed		1		10	1	13	25
Total	22	153	950	8,705	5,543	516	15,889
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,542			Ω = 4.56

From the Editors

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XII — March 9, 2008

Project News

No Way Out (2004) failed its nomination for Featured Article status; its nomination can be found here.
List of WCW Hardcore Champions has been nominated for Featured list status; its nomination can be found here.
Royal Rumble (2005), Over the Edge (1998), and Vengeance (2005) have been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for how they can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Their peer reviews can be found here, here and here.
Dawn Marie Psaltis, Lisa Marie Varon, and Unforgiven (2004) have been elevated to Good article status.
Don Kent (wrestler), Jos LeDuc, New Year's Revolution (2007), Ricky Banderas, SummerSlam (1994), SummerSlam (2007), No Way Out (2007) and Unforgiven (2005) are currently Good article candidates.
WikiProject Professional wrestling will be the Featured Wikiproject in next week's edition of the Signpost. LAX, iMatthew, and Nikki311 will answer questions relating to the project here.

Current Events

Ron Killings is still being reported as having signed a WWE contract. As there is no reliable source for anything of the sort, be prepared for his name to be continually added to the WWE Roster article, and information about his return being added to his article. There is also, apparently, an audio interview with Killings where he states he will be returning to WWE with his old K-Kwik gimmick. Recent SmackDown! taping spoilers indicate that Killings has already debuted under the name Kwik Killings in a Dark match. However, no reliable source for this information has been found yet.

Articles for Deletion

Current: NWA Australian Championship.
Kept: Lena Yada, Vicious and Delicious.
Deleted: Callum Sprit, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009, Road to WrestleMania Tournament, Gary Mei.

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for March 3 through March 16 is Ric Flair. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, March 16.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member Interview

This week's interviewees are D.M.N. (link) and 3bulletproof16 (link).

Next week's interviewees are FamicomJL and Naha. Submit a question to ask them here.

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 351 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 40 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
- Mar. 9 - TNA presents Destination X
- Mar. 25 - Kelan's birthday
- Mar. 26 - Govvy's birthday
- Mar. 30 - WWE presents WrestleMania XXIV

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	132	345		4	532
C	9	49	270	1,654		98	2,080
Start	2	47	335	4,914		280	5,578
Stub			2	279	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	805		807
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	10		12
Assessed	22	152	950	8,695	5,542	503	15,864
Unassessed		1		10	1	13	25
Total	22	153	950	8,705	5,543	516	15,889
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,542			Ω = 4.56

From the Editors

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XIII — March 23, 2008

Project News

No Way Out (2004) has been renominated for Featured Article status; its nomination can be found here.
List of WCW Hardcore Champions has been nominated for Featured list status; its nomination can be found here.
SummerSlam (2000) has been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. It's peer reviews can be found here.
Ricky Banderas and SummerSlam (1994) have been elevated to Good article status.
Ion Croitoru, Jos LeDuc, New Year's Revolution (2007), SummerSlam (2007), No Way Out (2007), Unforgiven (2005), WrestleMania X, Jeff Hardy, and Matt Hardy are currently Good article candidates.
WikiProject Professional wrestling was the Featured Wikiproject in last week's edition of the Signpost. TJ Spyke, iMatthew, and Nikki311 have answered questions relating to the project here.

Current Events

Jeff Hardy was suspended by WWE for 60 days on March 11 for violating WWE's Substance Abuse and Drug Policy. On March 14, he lost his home in, Cameron, North Carolina, late friday night due to a fire. Fire Department officials currently cannot confirm what was the cause of the fire. Reports also say that Jeff's brother, Matt Hardy, saw smoke coming out of Jeff's house. RAW Commentator, Jim Ross, reports on his blog, "He lost essentially every thing he had and most sadly his dog".
On March 14, Vince McMahon was honored into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Triple H: King of Kings-There is Only One, a WWE Home Video DVD, will be released on March 25 2008.

Articles for Deletion

Current: Steven Galvan
Kept:
Deleted: Bryant Balmaceda, NWA Australian Championship, List of professional wrestling stables and tag teams.

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for March 16 through March 30 is Big Show. The featured article collaboration is Kurt Angle. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, March 30.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member Interview

This week's interviewees are FamicomJL (link) and Naha (link).

Next week's interviewees are Endlessdan and S-pac54. Submit a question to ask them here.

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 356 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
- Mar. 25 - Kelan's birthday
- Mar. 26 - Govvy's birthday
- Mar. 29 - NimiTize's birthday
- Mar. 30 - WWE presents WrestleMania XXIV

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	132	345		4	532
C	9	49	270	1,654		98	2,080
Start	2	47	335	4,914		280	5,578
Stub			2	279	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	805		807
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	10		12
Assessed	22	152	950	8,695	5,542	503	15,864
Unassessed		1		10	1	13	25
Total	22	153	950	8,705	5,543	516	15,889
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,542			Ω = 4.56

From the Editors

Contributors to this Issue:

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XIV — April 6, 2008

Project News

SummerSlam (2007) (link) has been nominated for Featured Article status.
Triple H has failed its Featured Article nomination. Its nom page can be found here.
List of WCW Hardcore Champions has passed its Featured list nomination; its nomination can be found here.
Backlash (2004) has been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Its peer review can be found here.
Ion Croitoru, Jos LeDuc, New Year's Revolution (2007), No Way Out (2007), SummerSlam (2007), Unforgiven (2005), and WrestleMania X have been elevated to Good article status.
Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Randy Orton, Stacy Keibler, and Vengeance (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

Current Events

At WrestleMania XXIV, Shawn Michaels defeated Ric Flair after executing the Sweet Chin Music, which as a result, meant that Ric Flair was forced to retire from professional wrestling. The next night, at Flair's retirement ceremony on Raw, Triple H congratulated Flair for his 35 year career, and brought out retired and current superstars to thank him. Michaels, and the whole WWE roster came out later to thank him as well.
The Undertaker defeated Edge to become the new World Heavyweight Champion forcing him to submit to the Gogoplata. During the pyro celebration for Undertaker's 16-0 streak, a freak accident occurred just before WrestleMania went off-air. During the pryo shooting to the entrance stage, a firework went to the upper-level section of the crowd on top. Forty-five fans were injured, and currently, WWE is trying to investigate what was the cause of the pyrotechnic malfunction
Cryme Tyme returned to WWE on March 31, during Raw, defeating Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch.
Matt Hardy also returned on Raw, attacking Randy Orton from behind, and later having a match with Orton.

Articles for Deletion

Current: World Wrestling Professionals
Kept: Dark Angel (wrestler)
Deleted: Steven Galvan, A.W. Bulldog (wrestler), The Big Shemi, Ananzi (wrestler), Akilah (wrestler), Crybaby (wrestler), Don't Question My Heart

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaborations for March 30 through April 13 are Bash at the Beach (1996) and Mae Young. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, April 13.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member Interview

This week's interviewees are Endlessdan (link) and S-pac54 (link).

Next week's interviewees are Straight Edge PXK and iMatthew. Submit a question to ask them here.

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 363 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 39 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
13 - TNA presents Lockdown
14 - ThinkBlue's birthday
20 - Adamaniac's and Killswitch Engage's birthdays
27 - WWE presents Backlash

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	132	345		4	532
C	9	49	270	1,654		98	2,080
Start	2	47	335	4,914		280	5,578
Stub			2	279	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	805		807
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	10		12
Assessed	22	152	950	8,695	5,542	503	15,864
Unassessed		1		10	1	13	25
Total	22	153	950	8,705	5,543	516	15,889
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,542			Ω = 4.56

From the Editors

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Delivered: 17:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XV — April 20, 2008

Project News

SummerSlam (2007) has failed its Featured Article nomination; the discussion can be found here.
Jeff Hardy has been elevated to Good article status.
Acolytes Protection Agency, Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Stacy Keibler, and Vengeance (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

Events

WWE has invited Democrats running for president, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to Raw to settle their differences in a wrestling match. The invitation video can be found here.
On the April 21 edition of Raw, the King of the Ring tournament will return for one night only. The entire tournament will take place on Raw.
Mick Foley made a appearance in the new film, Anamorph.

Articles for Deletion

Current: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler).
Kept: Juggernaut (wrestler), World Wrestling Professionals, List of TNA tournaments, Shaun Simpson
Deleted:

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	6	5	12
	FL			1	13	14
	GA		4	9	30	43
	B	1	11	49	199	260
	Start	2	51	217	2300	2570
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	68	306	3151	3528
	Total	3	68	306	3152	3533

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 374 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 41 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
Apr. 27 - WWE presents Backlash (2008)
May 4 - S-pac54's birthday
May 8 - The Chronic's birthday
May 11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaborations for April 13 through April 27 are World Wrestling Entertainment and Booker T. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, April 13.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member Interview

Next week we will start the Editor of the Week. This will take the place of the Member Interviews. The EOTW will be given their own interview instead. To be fair, this week we will post all of the interviews that were on the schedule. Click the link next to the user's name to see their interview:

MarcK (link)
Technogreek43 (link)
RkOrton (link)

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Delivered: 16:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVI — May 4, 2008

Project News

Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., and Vengeance (2005) have been elevated to Good article status.
Acolytes Protection Agency, Backlash (2006), Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Judgment Day (2005), Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (2005), Stacy Keibler, and Survivor Series (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

Current Events

William Regal won the King of the Ring tournament on the April 21 edition of Raw.
Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain, made special appearance on Raw, via the titantron to address the Raw fans.
During Backlash, Triple H became the new WWE Champion by defeating Randy Orton.
Matt Hardy defeated MVP and became the new United States Champion.
The Undertaker had the World Heavyweight Championship taken from him on the May 2 episode of SmackDown!.

Articles for Deletion

Current: Giovanni picarazzi.
Kept:
Deleted: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler), Xterminator (wrestler), The Playa (wrestler), Kalahari Boerboel (wrestler), InterMat.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Since the last issue, the number of stub articles has decreased again. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	11	31	47
	B	1	12	51	199	265
	Start	2	51	220	2316	2593
	Stub		1	23	609	629
	Assessed	3	69	313	3175	3559
	Total	3	69	312	3173	3559

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 377 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
4 - S-pac54's birthday
8 - The Chronic's birthday
11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice
18 - WWE presents Judgment Day
18 - Self Preteder's birthday
19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for April 27 through May 11 is National Wrestling Alliance. The featured article collaboration is Amy Dumas. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, May 11.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Editor of the Week

Welcome to the Editor of the Week!
Our first editor of the week is Nikki311, who won with 6 votes.
The runner-up, LAX came in second with 3 votes.
Nikki311's award page can be found here. Congratulations Nikki!

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVII — May 18, 2008

Project News

Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Stacy Keibler, Randy Orton, and Acolytes Protection Agency have been elevated to Good article status.
Over the Edge (1999) failed its Good article nomination, but has been reassessed here.
Backlash (2006), Backlash (2007), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), Survivor Series (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

Current Events

Torrie Wilson was released by WWE on May 8.
L.A.X. won the vacated TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result of defeating Team 3D in the Deuces Wild tournament final at TNA Sacrifice.
- Also at TNA Sacrifice, Samoa Joe defeated Scott Steiner and Kaz to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
During WWE Backlash, Triple H, The Miz and John Morrison, and Mickie James retained the WWE Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship, and WWE Women's Championship, respectively.

Articles for Deletion

Current: Africa Wrestling Alliance, International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior.
Kept: TNA 2005 Super X Cup Tournament, TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament.
Redirected: Deuces Wild Tournament, Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol.2.
Deleted: Sean Creed, Giovanni picarazzi, Cf Turbo, Mother's Day Massacre (2008), Boerseun (wrestler), Nizaam Hartley, The Taxidriver (wrestler), Scorpion Kruger (wrestler), The Blacksmith (wrestler), RingDivas Womens Wrestling, Parrow Civic Centre, Nightmare (wrestler), Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa, Steve Eden (wrestler).

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	12	34	50
	B	1	13	55	203	272
	Start	2	52	220	2328	2604
	Stub		1	23	606	628
	Assessed	3	71	317	3189	3580
	Total	3	71	317	3189	3580

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 38 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday
19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaborations for May 11 through May 24 are Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and John Layfield. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, May 25.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Editor of the Week

Our second editor of the week is GaryColemanFan, who won with 4 votes.
The runner-up, D.M.N., came in second with 3 votes.
GaryColemanFan's award page and interview can be found here. Congratulations!
The interview portion of the award page was just recently added. To see Nikki311's interview, go to her award page here

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVIII — June 1, 2008

Project News

Backlash (2006), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), and Survivor Series (2005) have been elevated to Good Article status.

SummerSlam (2007) (link) and SummerSlam (1988) (link) have been nominated for Featured Article status.

Backlash (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Paul London, Royal Rumble (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here.

Current Events

Darren Matthews (William Regal) was suspended by WWE for 60 days for breaching the Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy.

The 2008 WWE Draft was announced by World Wrestling Entertainment chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008.

At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H.

Also, at One Night Stand, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe forced to leave WWE.

The Month in Wrestling History

May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge.
May 21, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title.
May 22, 2000 - Vince Russo stripped Ric Flair of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and awarded it to Jeff Jarret.
May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack.
May 19, 2004 - Ron Killings won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	15	39	58
	B	1	13	57	203	274
	Start	2	52	221	2331	2606
	Stub		1	23	600	624
	Assessed	3	71	323	3191	3588
	Total	3	71	323	3191	3588

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
- 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
- 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
- 29 - CJMiller's birthday
- 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for May 25 through June 7 is Rick Rude. The Featured article collaboration is Carly Colón. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, June 8.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current:
Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom.
Redirected:
Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XIV — June 22, 2008

Project News

SummerSlam (1988) and SummerSlam (2007) have both failed their Featured Article Candidacy's, their review pages can be found here and here, respectively.

List of WWE SmackDown video game titles (link) has been nominated for Featured List status.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (link) has been nominated for removal as a Featured List.

Paul London, SummerSlam (2004), Survivor Series (1994), and WWE SmackDown (video game series) are currently Good article candidates.

Backlash (2007) (link), Unforgiven (2006) (link), The Rock (entertainer) (link), One Night Stand (2007) (link), The Great American Bash (2007) (link) and Royal Rumble (2005) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Over the Edge (1999) has passed its reassessment and is now a good article! The article's reassessment can be found here.

A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the Wrestling event infobox, please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles.

The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class.

The Month in Wrestling History

June 1, 1998 - Junkyard Dog died at the age of forty-five in an automobile accident.
June 2, 2003 - Freddie Blassie died at the age of eighty-five from natural causes.
June 10, 1983 - Harley Race defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven.
June 13, 1993 - Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight title.
June 19 2002 - AJ Styles became the first TNA X Division Champion.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		5	17	42	64
	B	1	13	67	206	287
	C		1	7	36	44
	Start	2	53	211	2312	2578
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	74	333	3218	3628
	Total	3	74	333	3218	3628

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
- 10 - Chandlerjoeyross's birthday
- 10 - King Gemini's birthday
- 11 - Wweisreal's birthday
- 20 - Umdunno's birthday

Current Events

James Yun was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Policy.

Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion."

WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home.

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for June 22 through July 5 is James Yun. The Featured article collaboration is Candice Michelle . Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, July 5.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current: Mark Beale.
Kept: Triplemania, Antonio Peña.
Redirected:
Deleted: All Action Wrestling.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue XX — July 6, 2008

Thank you for reading WikiProject Professional Wrestling's 20th Newsletter Edition

Project News

December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link).

Starrcade (1983) has failed its Featured Article nomination (link).

List of WWE SmackDown video game titles has been elevated to Featured List status (link).

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been removed as a Featured List (link).

Faces of Fear (link), Maria Kanellis (link), Paul London (link), Survivor Series (1994) (link), The Mega Bucks (link) and WWE SmackDown (video game series) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Backlash (2003), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Survivor Series (2004) are currently Good article candidates.

Lockdown (2008) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review.

Category:Vengeance is being discussed at WP:CFD for renaming, it's discussion page can be found here.

The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start-Class, but less than B-Class.

Immediately put into effect, our project has begun use of the List-Class rating. The List-Class rating is for list articles that are of less quality than B-Class articles.

Current Events

At Night of Champions:
- Mark Henry became the new ECW Champion.
- Kofi Kingston won the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
- Cody Rhodes turned on Hardcore Holly to capture the World Tag Team Championship with Ted DiBiase.
On June 30, CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw.
Trevor Murdoch was released from WWE on July 3.

The Month in Wrestling History

June 24, 2001 - Edge defeated Kurt Angle in the finals of the 2001 King of the Ring.
June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke at age 71.
June 28, 1999 - Steve Austin defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.
July 2, 1969 - "Iron" Mike DiBiase died of a heart attack in the ring.
July 3, 2001 - AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn become the first NWA World Tag Team Champions under the ownership of TNA, via winning a tournament final.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 631. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	17	45	67
	B	1	14	65	202	282
	C		1	10	44	55
	Start	2	52	211	2310	2575
	Stub		1	24	602	627
	List		1	7	39	46
	Assessed	3	74	335	3223	3639
	Total	3	74	335	3223	3639

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 397 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- 29 - WWE presents Night of Champions
- 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
- 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
- 13 - TNA presents Victory Road

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaborations for July 6 through July 19 are Sean Waltman and The Attitude Era.

Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article.

The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on July 20.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current: Jack Korpela, List of Ring of Honor events, List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships, Beer Money Inc., and The Badd guys.
Kept:
Redirected/Merged: Mark Beale, and Eric Mastrocola.
Deleted: List of ECW events.

From the Editors

As I'm sure you noticed above, this is the 20th edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! It has come a long way since the first issue, and I'm sure it will only improve from here. I'd like to thank everyone reading this for continuing to read the newsletter, biweekly.

I'd like to especially thank those who have helped to get the newsletter to it's 20th edition; The Hybrid, The Chronic, TJ Spyke, Alex Roggio, LAX, ThinkBlue, Nikki311, GaryColemanFan, Gavyn Sykes, D.M.N., Naha, NiciVampireHeart, SRX, Zenlax and, RkOrton.

Also, lastly I'd like to thank Misza13, for sending the newsletter out for us, though his bot. His bot has to be the most important part of the process, because without it, the newsletter would not get sent to project members.

I know that's a long list, but they all deserve recognition for their hard work towards the newsletter. So again, thank you to that list of people, and thank you to all of the newsletter's biweekly readers. If you have an questions, comments, or feedback about the newsletter, remember those links below.

-- iMatthew _T.C.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXI — July 20, 2008

Project News

A fact from Porkchop Cash and Armageddon (2006) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 11, 2008 and July 17, 2008, respectively.

December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link).

WWE No Way Out (link) and 2008 WWE Draft (link) are current Featured List candidates

Backlash (2003) (link), Backlash (2004) (link), Survivor Series (2004) (link), and Unforgiven (2007) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Cyber Sunday (2007), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), Royal Rumble (2007), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Vengeance: Night of Champions are currently Good article candidates.

SummerSlam (2003) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review.

Per this edit and the discussion here, date linking is not mandatory in articles. This mainly applies to the project's pay-per-view expanded articles. Please take this regulation in notice and apply it to the project's expanded pay-per view articles.

New parameters have been added to the {{Infobox Wrestling event}} template, for the discussion explaining these parameters, see the discussion here

Current Events

Ashley Massaro was released from WWE on July 9.

Taylor Wilde won the TNA Women's Championship on the July 10 edition of TNA Impact!, defeating Awesome Kong.

This Month in Wrestling History

July 9, 2000 - Booker T defeated Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
July 11, 1961 - Gene Kiniski defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
July 12, 1992 - Jimmy Snuka defeated Johnny Hot Body for the ECW Heavyweight Championship.
July 12, 1999 - Hulk Hogan defeated Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight title.
July 16, 2001 - Terry Gordy died of a heart attack at age 40.
July 17, 1988 - Bruiser Brody died in Puerto Rica after being stabbed, aged 42.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	18	51	74
	B	1	14	66	203	284
	C		1	9	56	66
	Start	2	50	202	1734	1988
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	572	594
	Assessed	3	74	346	3234	3657
	Total	3	74	346	3234	3657

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 401 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
13 - TNA presents Victory Road
19 - ProtoWolf's & The Founders Intent's birthday
20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
27 - Sundogs' birthday
29 - Kris Classic's birthday
31 - Normy's birthday

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for July 20 through August 2 is Chris Jericho. The Featured article collaboration is Torrie Wilson.

Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article.

The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 3.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current: Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and List of wrestling championships.
Kept:
Redirected/Merged: List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships.
Deleted: Jack Korpela (2), Velocity Championship Wrestling (VCW), List of Ring of Honor events, Marc Loyd, Tna Wrestlers Payroll, TNA INCOME, TNA payroll, Beer Money Inc., The Badd guys, and Cyme Tyme Cenation.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXII — August 3, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates.
- Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status.
- SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination.

Other project news
- Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here.

This Month in Wrestling History

July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship.
June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71.
July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion.
July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship.
August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	15	22
	GA		5	20	56	81
	B	1	15	67	203	286
	C		1	10	60	71
	Start	2	49	203	1735	1989
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	351	3246	3674
	Total	3	74	351	3246	3674

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of July:
  - 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
  - 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
  - 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
  - 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday
  - 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
  - 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
  - 27 - Sundogs' birthday
  - 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
  - 31 - Normy's birthday
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXIII — August 17, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate.
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link). has been elevated to Featured List status.
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks, Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992) and The Great American Bash (2005) are currently Good article candidates.
- Sarah Stock (link) has been elevated to good article status.

Other project news
- Matt Sydal (link) is currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from SummerSlam (1992)‎, Armageddon (2003), and Bad Blood (2003) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 9, 11, and 14 respectively.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status.
- The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined.

This Month in Wrestling History

August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight championship.
August 4, 1997 - Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight title.
August 7, 2002 - Ron Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
August 8, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated Fritz Von Erich for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
August 9, 1999 - Jackie Sato died of stomach cancer at age 41.
August 12, 1995 - Brad Armstrong defeated Buddy Landel for the Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Championship.
August 15, 2004 - Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history.
August 16, 1992 - The Great Muta defeated Riki Chōshū for the IWGP Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	7	15	23
	GA		5	20	57	82
	B	1	15	68	203	287
	C		1	10	63	74
	Start	2	49	203	1751	2005
	Stub		1	23	595	619
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	353	3260	3690
	Total	3	74	353	3260	3690

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 414 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXIV — August 31, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) has been elevated to Featured Article status.
- The Great American Bash (2005) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate.
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) was under Featured Article review, the result was to keep it as a Featured Article.
- List of celebrities involved at WrestleMania (link) is a current Featured List candidate.
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) has been demoted from Featured List status.

Good article news
- Bad Blood (2003), Bad Blood (2004), Chyna, Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), Sacrifice (2008), SummerSlam (1992), Survivor Series (1993), and WrestleMania (1985) are currently Good article candidates.
- Armageddon (2006) (link), Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) have passed their Good Article nominations.

Other project news
- Matt Sydal (link), Judgment Day (2005) (link), and Unforgiven (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- The Future class rating has been incorporated into the project's assessment. It's intended use is for pay-per-views articles or video games that have not occurred or have been released, respectively.
- A fact from List of celebrities at WrestleMania was featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 28.

This Month in Wrestling History

August 17, 1997 - Shane Douglas defeated Sabu and Terry Funk in a triangle match for the ECW Heavyweight title.
August 19, 2001 - The Rock defeated Booker T to win the WCW Championship.
August 21, 1979 - Dusty Rhodes defeated Harley Race for the NWA Heavyweight Wrestling title.
August 22, 2000 - Lita defeated Stephanie MaMahon-Helmsley for the WWF Women's Championship.
August 27, 1994 - "Eastern Championship Wrestling" was renamed "Extreme Championship Wrestling".
August 31, 1997 - Kensuke Sasaki defeated Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 596. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	5	7
	FL		1	7	14	22
	GA		5	22	57	84
	B	1	16	67	201	285
	C		1	11	72	84
	Start	2	49	204	1768	2023
	Stub		1	22	574	597
	List		2	21	574	597
	Future	0	0	1	11	12
	Assessed	3	75	357	3276	3711
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- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
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