Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 046

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue XLVI - July 5, 2009

Project in Review

As of July 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	18	41
	GA		6	49	84	139
	B	1	23	88	222	335
	C		5	41	158	204
	Start	2	54	286	1931	2273
	Stub			25	471	496
	List		4	31	629	665
	Future			4	11	15
	Assessed	3	93	554	3527	4179
	Total	3	93	554	3527	4179

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

MNM (review page)
Armageddon (2008) (review page)

Promoted Good topics:

None

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

—Articles

The TNA X Division Championship (review page) is a Featured article candidate.
List of CMLL World Light Heavyweight Champions (review page), List of CMLL World Middleweight Champions (review page), Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (review page) and WWE Backlash (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
List of FIP World Heavyweight Champions (review page) was withdrawn as a Featured list candidate.
Adam Birch (review page), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer (review page), Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah (review page), Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano (review page), Leilani Kai, Mark Henry , Ted DiBiase, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, TNA Legends Championship, TNA World Heavyweight Championship (review page), and TNA World Tag Team Championship are current Good article nominees.
Abismo Negro (review page) is currently under Peer Review.
The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
- June 22: Ephesto
- June 25: Dos Caras, Jr.
- June 27: Mascara Dorada
- July 1: Billy Red Lyons
Deletion Discussions:
- Articles for Deletion
  - Current: Neo (wrestler), and Unified WWE Tag Team Championship
  - Deleted: Ashley Lane and Nevaeh, Bill Verna, IPW New Zealand Heavyweight Championship, Jessie McKay, Kellie Skater, Madison Eagles, Pink Ladies (professional wrestling), Tennille Tayla, and Ultimate World Championship.
  - Kept: Pete Stilsbury (2nd nomination)

—Project

As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.97%, with 499 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Based on the members list, there are currently 225 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
The WP:PW cleanup listing was updated again on June 21. Please help out with fixing any of the problems listed, and removing them from the list.

Events Calendar

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of July.

19 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Victory Road
26 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Night of Champions

Recent Professional Wrestling News

At TNA's Slammiversary pay-per-view on June 21:
- Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
- Kurt Angle won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship by defeating defending champion Mick Foley, Samoa Joe, Jeff Jarrett, and A.J. Styles in a King of the Mountain match.
On June 22:
- WWE Chairman Vince McMahon bought back the WWE Raw franchise from the storyline owner Donald Trump.
- Matt Hardy suffered a torn abdominal muscle, and is scheduled for surgery.
- Billy Red Lyons died from cancer at the age of 77.
On June 24, it was announced that Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) would be releasing a video game in the United States entitled AAA El Videojuego.
On June 25, Fuerza and Juventud Guerrera announced that they were starting their own promotion called Super X GPCW.
At WWE's The Bash pay-per-view on June 27:

Rey Mysterio defeated Chris Jericho in a Mask vs. Title match to keep his mask and win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
Edge and Chris Jericho defeated Unified WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) and The Legacy (Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes) in a Triple Threat tag team match to win the titles.
Michelle McCool defeated Melina to win the WWE Women's Championship; she became the first Diva to hold the WWE Diva's and Women's Titles.

It was announced on June 29 on WWE Raw that 15 wrestlers had been traded among the three WWE brands as a result of Donald Trump's storyline purchase.
On June 30 on ECW on Sci Fi, four wrestlers made their debut for the ECW brand: Yoshi Tatsu, Tyler Reks, Sheamus and Abraham Washington.
On July 1:

Two midget professional wrestlers, La Parkita and Espectrito Jr, were killed in a hotel room in Mexico, allegedly overdosing on a drug used to spike their beverages.
Dave Prazak announced that Serena Deeb had signed with WWE.

Editing Tips

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.

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