Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 050

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue L - August 30, 2009

Project in Review

As of August 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	29	52
	GA		9	52	89	150
	B	6	18	87	231	342
	C	1	7	49	213	270
	Start	6	48	281	1966	2301
	Stub			25	491	516
	List		3	28	595	626
	Future			5	8	13
	Assessed	13	86	552	3617	4268
	Total	13	86	552	3617	4268

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

Promoted Good topics:

None

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

—Articles

IWGP Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidates.
List of WWE Hardcore Champions (review page) was not promoted to Featured list status.
Charlie Haas, Cliff Compton, Cody Rhodes, Jimmy Reiher, Jr., The Legacy (professional wrestling), TNA Bound for Glory, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Well Dunn, and The World's Greatest Tag Team are current Good article nominees.
The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
- August 16: Super Muñeco
- August 20: Ángel Azteca, Hart wrestling family, Cormier wrestling family, Yvon Cormier, Leo Burke, Rudy Kay, and Bobby Kay.
- August 25: Ann Casey
Deletion Discussions:
- Articles for Deletion
  - Current: Brett DiBiase and Ground Xero Wrestling
  - Deleted: Matt Riviera and Qiz (wrestler).
  - Kept: Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship - was closed as no consensus
- Categories for Discussion:
  - Current: Category:21st-century female professional wrestlers
  - Deleted: Category:Death among active Total Nonstop Action employees and Category:Deaths among active World Wrestling Entertainment employees.

—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 August 16, we are at 12.09%, with 518 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 230 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

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 September.

4 - Dragon Gate USA presents Enter The Dragon
13 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Breaking Point
18 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents their 76th Aniversary Show
20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents No Surrender

Recent Professional Wrestling News

On August 16:
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vacated the IWGP Heavyweight Championship after he suffered a broken orbital bone in a match with Shinsuke Nakamura.
- Valiente won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship by defeating Sangre Azteca.
- Player Dos won the Chikara Young Lions Cup by defeating Colin Delaney in the final of the 2009 Young Lions tournament.
- At TNA's Hard Justice pay-per-view:
  - ODB won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship when she and Cody Deaner defeated the defending champion Angelina Love and Velvet Sky in a tag team match.
  - Samoa Joe won the TNA X Division Championship by defeating Homicide.
  - Kevin Nash defeated Mick Foley to win the TNA Legends Championship.
  - Elijah Burke made his TNA debut under the name "the Pope" D'Angelo Dinero.
On August 17, it was reported that TNA signed a three year deal with Spike TV, and that TNA had replaced color commentator Don West with Taz.
Dragon Gate USA announced a television deal with The Fight Network on August 18.
On the August 20 episode of TNA Impact!, an eight-team tournament to crown the first TNA Women's Knockout Tag Team Champions was announced. The tournament will commence on the August 27 episode of Impact!.
On August 21, Alex Koslov won the AAA Cruiserweight Championship by defeating the defending champion Extreme Tiger, and Jack Evans, Teddy Hart, and Rocky Romero in an elimination match.
On August 23:
- CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Jeff Hardy in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at SummerSlam.
- Ring of Honor announced that Bryan Danielson had agreed to a contract with WWE "in principle".
On August 27, WWE announced that, effective of September 2, they will be suspending Rey Mysterio for a violation of the Wellness Program.

Editing Tips

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

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.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a ^{[citation needed]} tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
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.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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