Talk:The Great American Bash (2005)

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August 6, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
August 27, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
September 16, 2008	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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GA Review[edit]

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Some suggestions for improvement:

The event grossed over $375,000 ticket sales - "in ticket sales"?
when WWE Champion, John Cena was drafted to the Raw brand - don't need the comma.
During the match, JBL was victorious - awkwardly worded. You don't really win a match "during" or in the middle of it.
The following week on SmackDown! - italicise the title of the show.
if Mysterio won, Eddie could not reveal the secret - why the first name?
When a name like "the" is part of the title, as in The Mexicools, keep it capitalised mid-sentence, but if it's not, as in the Blue World Order, keep it uncapitalised mid-sentence. (2nd paragraph, Preliminary matches)
Lol, that "Bra and Panties match" sounds... exciting :P (sorry, not really relevant)
The lead says the championship title can be won by pinfall or submission, but the Main event matches section says only pinfall.
This short-lived feud ended... - end sentence with a period/full-stop/whatever-one-calls-it!
this time the match lasted twenty-three and four-tenths seconds - better written as a decimal, 23.4.
the match lasted twenty-two and a half seconds - as above; 22.5.
Can you get a reference for the standard arena capacity?
until the week of December 15, 2005, when it ranked 13th - always spell out ordinal numbers; "thirteenth".
Image:GreatAmericanBash2005.jpg is a fair use image, so should be low-resolution. It's currently about twice as large as it should be (around 0.1 megapixels at the most). Can you scale it down a bit?

That's it - I'll place the article on hold for a week so good luck with the changes :) —97198 (talk) 07:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've completed all requests but the picture, I'll get to that later today. Thanks! -- iMatthew _T.C. 11:12, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the picture smaller, but I can't figure out how to update it. If you can do it by any chance, please see this, where I uploaded the scaled picture to Tinypic.com (an online picture upload-er). -- iMatthew _T.C. 00:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded your version over the top of the old one, but it looks funny to me - does it look weird to you? You can trying uploading another version over the top of that one if you want. All you do is go to the image page, and under file history there's a bullet-point link saying "Upload a new version of this file". Everything's signposted from there ;) —97198 (talk) 06:37, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it looks good to me! -- iMatthew _T.C. 21:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it looks normal to me now (when I uploaded it yesterday there were funny white things all over it!). All the changes look good, so I'm happy to go ahead and promote to a GA :) —97198 (talk) 07:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't see any reference to The Great American Bash imprint having been originated by the World Championship Wrestling promotion (WCW) as a title for PPV events. Thus the suggestion that this was the "second such annual event" while presumably correct from a WWE standpoint, could be a little misleading. WCW had previously run a number of events under that title, prior to WWE purchasing the remnants of that company and related intellectual properties (such as the name, The Great American Bash) for a reported two million dollars later on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leapso (talk • contribs) 03:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Version 0.7[edit]

This article does not appear to have broad enough appeal to be included in Version 0.7, which includes only the top 1% or so of articles. Walkerma (talk) 05:56, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been nominated for Version 0.7 of the offline Wikipedia release but did not meet the standards for importance. It has been put on Wikipedia:Release_Version_Nominations/Held_nominations for further review. Please see that page for details.

Over explaining?[edit]

I was just reading the article and I found it rather annoying to have to read a description of every move listed. I know from reading other articles and discussions that there has been a concensus to try to take the pro wrestling articles out of universe (or how ever it was described), but I feel that describing every move is a bit foolish. I also know, though, not to make major changes with discussing them first, so I figured I would write here to make my case. My feeling is simply this - what percentage of non-wrestling fans are going to be reading these pages? I doubt it is going to be very many, so therefore I don't think the amount of explinations should be taken to these measures. So I just wanted to put it on here, if no one says otherwise, I'm going to remove some of the over explinations in 3 days' time. 67.181.55.148 (talk) 04:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Main Event[edit]

Not sure if you can truly say that Orlando Jordan was w/ John "Bradshaw" Layfield for the Main Event Match. Orlando Jordan was not introduced with the champion, nor did he come out with the champion. It is true that he did interfere in the match, but that shouldn't be in the results table or in the main part of the article Lbkid1700 (talk) 06:45, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]