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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 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.

Other project news
- Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (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.
- 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

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 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	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 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
	Total	3	75	356	3276	3711

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 420 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