Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 067

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue LXVII - April 25, 2010

Project in Review

As of April 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	131	346		4	532
C	9	49	269	1,652		95	2,074
Start	2	47	336	4,902		267	5,554
Stub			3	277	1	58	339
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,243		2,246
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,686		1,686
Redirect		2	11	100	640		753
Template			1	1	764		766
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	10		12
Assessed	22	153	950	8,679	5,480	484	15,768
Unassessed				8	1	8	17
Total	22	153	950	8,687	5,481	492	15,785
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,374			Ω = 4.56

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page)

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

ROH World Television Championship (review page)
Michael Brendli (review page)
Eve Torres (review page)

Promoted Good topics:

None

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

—Articles

FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
Sherri Martel is a current Good article nominee.
Spirit Squad (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
Deletion discussions:
- Articles for deletion:
  - Current: Peter Maivia, Jr., Ricky Vega, and Team Lay-Cool.
  - Deleted: Derek Allen, Madison Eagles (2nd nomination), and Massachusetts wrestling.
  - Kept: Brimstone (wrestler) (2nd nomination)
- Templates for deletion:
  - Deleted: Template:Wrestling PPVs
Requested moves
- Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WT:PW#Proposed moves.
- Moved: Nelson Erazo to Homicide (wrestler), Scott Levy to Raven (wrestler), Jessica Kresa to ODB (wrestler), and Harry Fujiwara to Mr. Fuji.

—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 April 25, we are at 7.54%, with 361 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 244 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WP:PW, it is suggested that you add your name to the list of active members.

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 April and May.

April:
- 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules
- 26 - WWE presents the 2010 WWE Draft
May:
- 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice
- 23 - WWE presents Over the Limit

Recent Professional Wrestling News

Madison Eagles defeated MsChif on April 11 to win the Shimmer Championship.
On April 12:
- Eve Torres won the WWE Divas Championship for the first time by defeating Maryse on Raw.
- TNA debuted a new television show, ReAction.
- It was reported that SmackDown will be moving to the Syfy channel in late 2010.
On April 14:
- Wrestlicious announced a television deal with The Fight Network in Canada to air Wrestlicious Takedown, beginning in May.
- Gene Kiniski died at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer.
- It was reported that WWE had released Beverly Mullins from her contract.
- Bison Smith and Keith Walker won the GHC Tag Team Championship from Takeshi Rikioh and Muhammad Yone.
On April 17:
- Jon Moxley won a "Florida Rumble" tournament to win the vacated FIP World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, by last defeating Roderick Strong. The championship was vacated by Davey Richards due to contractual issues in March.
- Tyler Veritas suffered a broken foot at an MBA event in South Philadelphia, and is expected to be rehabilitating the injury for up to six weeks.
- Cindy Rogers and Jana won the WSU Tag Team Championship by defeating Angel Orsini and Mercedes Martinez.
- LuFisto suffered a minor stroke shortly after a match, but is not expected to need time off.
On April 18:
- Tigers Mask defeated Super Shisa to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship.
- Máscara Año 2000, Jr. defeated El Canek to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship.
- At Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Lockdown pay-per-view:
  - Doug Williams was stripped of the TNA X Division Championship due to no-showing the event because of a volcano eruption in Iceland, which disrupted flights in Europe.
  - Frankie Kazarian went on to win the vacant X Division Championship by defeating Homicide and Shannon Moore in a three-way steel cage match.
  - Madison Rayne won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship in a tag team steel cage match, making her the first person to hold the Knockouts Championship and the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championships simultanously.
Rob Van Dam won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on April 19 by defeating A.J. Styles on Impact!.
On April 20:
- Adam Birch made his WWE return as Joey Mercury, losing a dark match to Shelton Benjamin prior to the SmackDown television tapings.
- Daffney suffered a stinger and a bruised sternum during a dark match prior to the Impact! tapings.
- Angelina Love partially tore her bicep muscle and suffered a complete ulnar collateral ligament tear at the Impact! tapings, and is expected to miss several weeks.
- Former Southwest Championship Wrestling announcer Steve Stack died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
- Katsuji Adachi, better known as Mr. Hito, died in Calgary at the age of 67. His death was related to diabetes.
On April 21:
- Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi were stripped of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
- "Gorgeous" George Grant died at the age of 85.
WWE announced the release of seven wrestlers from their contracts: Mickie James, Katie Lea, Shelton Benjamin, Slam Mater J, Jimmy Wang Yang, Kung Fu Naki, and Mike Knox on April 22.

Editing Tips

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals 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.
When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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