Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 061

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue LXI - January 31, 2010

Project in Review

As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	218		1	338
B	11	40	147	360		4	562
C	9	53	310	1,843		48	2,263
Start	2	46	332	5,265		137	5,782
Stub			2	300	1	30	333
List		2	67	1,212		40	1,321
Category				3	1,317		1,320
Disambig					25		25
File					240		240
Redirect		1	11	114	285		411
Template					286		286
NA					115		115
Other					10		10
Draft					6		6
Assessed	22	155	1,007	9,366	2,285	260	13,095
Unassessed				2		3	5
Total	22	155	1,007	9,368	2,285	263	13,100
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 42,322			Ω = 4.56

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page)

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

None

Promoted Good topics:

None

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

—Articles

List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Nemeth, ROH World Television Championship, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
Bobby Kay is undergoing a Good article reassessment here.
Rated-RKO (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? section of the main page:
- January 19: Metro (wrestler)
- January 21: Eric Holmback
- January 24: Dr. Wagner and Ángel Blanco
- January 28: Ida Mae Martinez
Deletion discussions:
- Articles for deletion:
  - Current: Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
  - Deleted: The Straight Edge Society

—Project

As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
Based on the members list, there are currently 235 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 months of January and February.

January:
- 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble
February:
- 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
- 21 - WWE presents Elimination Chamber

Recent Professional Wrestling News

On January 17:
- WWE announced the release of Eric Escobar from his contract.
- At TNA's Genesis pay-per-view event on January 17:
  - TNA discontinued their six-sided wrestling ring and reintroduced their four-sided ring.
  - Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB in a two out of three falls match.
  - Matt Morgan and Hernandez defeated The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
  - Brian Kendrick and Mr. Anderson made their return and debut, respectively, to TNA.
Ida Mae Martinez died on January 19 at the age of 78.
On January 20:
- Ring of Honor announced the creation of the ROH World Television Championship. A tournament will be held to determine the inaugural champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on February 5 and 6.
- The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
On January 23:
- Da Heavy Hitters (Monsta Mack and Havok) won the JAPW Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
- Davey Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki at the DGUSA Fearless pay-per-view taping.
On January 27:
- Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
- It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
- On January 28, Doug Williams defeated Amazing Red to win the TNA X Division Championship.

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 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see WP:PW/SG#Sources.
Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.

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