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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue LIX - January 3, 2010

Issue LVIII | Issue LX

Project in Review

As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	102		174
	B	6	20	82	244		352
	C	1	8	64	291		364
	Start	7	51	289	2214		2561
	Stub			15	462		477
	List		3	30	647	1	681
	Future			3	8		11
	Assessed	14	95	574	4003	1	4687
	Unassessed					5	5
	Total	14	95	574	4003	6	4692

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

None

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

None

Promoted Good topics:

Rosey and The Hurricane (review page)

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

—Articles

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
Bobby Kay, Derick Neikirk, Leo Burke, Rated-RKO, and Rudy Kay are current Good article nominees.
The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? column:
- December 23: Derick Neikirk
- December 27: Rafael Halperin
- December 28: Final Battle 2009
- December 31: Franky The Mobster and Learning the Ropes
- January 2: Jigsaw (wrestler)
Deletion discussions:
- Articles for deletion
  - Deleted: American Angels- Baptism of Blood, List of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, Michigan Championship Wrestling Association(MCWA), Spencer Khrone, UPWA Pro Wrestling, and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 (2nd nomination).
  - Kept: Aaron Proctor and List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts.
- Templates for discussion
  - Deleted: Template:Slammy Award Winners

—Project

As part of the project's 2009 New Year's Resolutions, there was an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of January 2, we are at 10.14%, with 476 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.
GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) recapped the prgress of the project this year and since it's creation at WT:PW#2009 WP:PW progress.
A new set of New Year's Resolutions for 2010 have been announced at Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Resolutions 2010.
Based on the members list, there are currently 234 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 January.

17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

Recent Professional Wrestling News

On December 20:
- It was reported that Ricky Steamboat, Jr. had signed a developmental contract with WWE.
- Former wrestler Colt Steel (real name C.J. Jackson) died at the age of 53. The cause of death is currently unknown.
- At Final Resolution:
  - Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB.
  - Sheik Abdul Bashir won one of the Feast or Fired briefcases, which was revealed to have the pinkslip in it. This storyline was put in place so Bashir could legitimately leave TNA.
Roxxi broke her ankle in two places at the Impact! taping on December 21.
On December 22, TNA announced they had signed a deal with Setanta Sports Africa to air Impact! and pay-per-views in several African countries.
The Mexican National Trios Championship was vacated in late December, due to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre announcing Black Warrior's retirement. A tournament has been set up to crown new champions.
It was reported that Incognito had signed a WWE contract.
On December 25, World Xtreme Wrestling announced that Jimmy Snuka's daughter, Sarona, had signed a contract with WWE.
Dixie Carter announced that TNA had signed The Young Bucks to a contract on December 26.
On December 27, Cima and Gamma defeated Shingo Takagi and Yamato to win the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship, but vacated the championship immediately afterwards.
Melina suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament at a house show on December 29.
On December 30, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams died at the age of 49 due to cancer.

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.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
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.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue LX - January 17, 2010

Issue LIX | Issue LXI

Project in Review

As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	103		175
	B	6	21	83	246		356
	C	1	8	66	295		370
	Start	7	51	286	2160		2504
	Stub			15	451		466
	List		3	30	644	1	678
	Future			4	8		12
	Assessed	14	96	575	3942	1	4628
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	14	96	575	3942	3	4630

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

None

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

Promoted Good topics:

None

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

—Articles

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
Derick Neikirk, Nick Nemeth, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
Bobby Kay (review page) has failed its Good article nomination but has been nominated for a Good article reassessment here.
The following article appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
- January 7: Billy Sandow
- January 16: Jim White (wrestler)
Deletion discussions:
- Articles for deletion:
  - Deleted: Dynamite Chris Hart

—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 17, we are at 10.06%, with 466 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 month of January.

17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

Recent Professional Wrestling News

On January 4:
- WWE confirmed Tommy Dreamer's departure from the company, after his final match and farewell speech on the December 29 episode of ECW.
- WWE announced that Melina had vacated the WWE Divas Championship due to injury, and set up a tournament to determine the new champion.
- TNA held their first live edition of Impact! to compete against Raw, which featured:
  - Returns from wrestlers including Jeff Hardy, Shannon Moore, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman, as well as the debuts of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Eric Bischoff.
  - ODB defeating Tara to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
  - Hamada and Awesome Kong defeating Talyor Wilde and Sarita to win the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship.
- At Wrestle Kingdom IV:
  - No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating the former champions, Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), and Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard) in a three-way hardcore match.
  - Naomichi Marufuji defeated Tiger Mask IV to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
On January 6, Mascara Dorada, Metro, and Stuka, Jr. defeated Dragón Rojo, Jr., Misterioso II, and Sangre Azteca in a tournament final to win the vacant Mexican National Trios Championship.
On January 8, Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
On January 9:
- It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a developmental contract.
- It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
On January 10:
- It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
- Former wrestler Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.
- Dr. Cerebro defeated Tetsuya Bushi to win the IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship.
K-Ness defeated Naoki Tanisaki to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship on January 11.
On January 14, The Fortunate Sons (Brett DiBiase and Joe Hennig defeated The Dudebusters (Caylen Croft, Trent Barreta, and Curt Hawkins) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.
The Evolve promotion held their first show on January 16.

Editing Tips

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

Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Adhere strictly to the Biographies of living persons policy when adding to information to biography articles.

Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a non-point of view perspective.

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

Issue LX | Issue LXII

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	45			72
GA		10	109	218		1	338
B	11	41	138	349		4	543
C	9	50	289	1,743		68	2,159
Start	2	46	335	5,073		207	5,663
Stub			2	275		57	334
List		1	63	1,153		47	1,264
Category			3	16	2,268		2,287
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,682		1,682
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template		2	5	139	735		881
NA				1	115		116
Draft				2	12		14
Assessed	22	154	984	9,123	5,474	384	16,141
Unassessed		1		9	1	20	31
Total	22	155	984	9,132	5,475	404	16,172
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,260			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.

Contributors to this Issue

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