Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 055 - Wikipedia

Project in Review

As of November 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			24	30	54
	GA		10	57	95	162
	B	6	19	87	240	352
	C	1	8	58	272	339
	Start	7	48	293	2008	2356
	Stub			17	504	521
	List		3	29	593	625
	Future			4	7	11
	Assessed	14	89	576	3752	4431
	Total	14	89	576	3752	4431

Changes to Featured and Good Content

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 November.

• 15 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Turning Point
• 22 - WWE presents Survivor Series

Recent Professional Wrestling News

• At Bragging Rights, John Cena defeated Randy Orton in a 60 minute Iron Man match, by six falls to five, to win the WWE Championship.
• Jay Lethal suffered a hamstring injury at a TNA house show, but is expected to be at the next Impact! tapings.
• On October 27:
  • Hulk Hogan held a press conference to announce that he has signed with TNA. It was later revealed that Eric Bischoff has also signed, and he and Hogan will be the new bookers.
  • Byron Saxton made his debut on ECW as a commentator. He is filling in for Matt Striker, who has been moved to SmackDown after Jim Ross' Bell's palsy attack forced him to take time off.
• José Alvarado Nieves, better known as Super Porky, has returned to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre.
• Yoshinobu Kanemaru won the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship by defeating Jushin Liger in the finals of a tournament on October 31. The previous champion, Kenta, vacated the championship due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
• New Zealand wrestler, Adam Dykes, better known by his ring names Torch and Adam Firestorm, died on November 5 due to an apparent suicide.

Other Project News

—Articles

• Well Dunn (review page) is a current Featured article candidate.
• Mexican National Welterweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Adam Copeland, Gregory Helms, Jason Reso, John McMahon (wrestler), Matt Anoa'i, Rosey and The Hurricane, TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship, TNA Women's Knockout Championship, Turning Point (2008) are current Good article nominees.
• WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 (review page) has been delisted as a Good article following reassessment as part of the Good article sweeps.
• The following article appeared in the Did you know? column on the main page:
  • November 7: Turning Point (2008)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: List of multiple world heavyweight champions in professional wrestling (2nd nomination)
    • Deleted: Angela Fong, Impact Pro Wrestling, Jenny Quinn, Karlee Perez, The Ruthless Roundtable, and World Wrestling Coalition (2nd nomination).
    • Kept: Brian Jossie, Jenna Palmer, and Zivile Raudoniene.
  • Files for deletion
    • Current: File:ECWchampbelt.jpg
  • Templates for discussion
    • Deleted: Template:Armageddon, Template:Backlash, Template:Bad Blood, Template:Cyber Sunday, Template:December to Dismember, Template:Great American Bash, Template:In Your House, Template:Judgement Day, Template:Judgment Day, Template:King of the Ring, Template:New Year's Revolution, Template:Night of Champions, Template:No Mercy, Template:No Way Out, Template:One Night Stand, Template:Over the Edge, Template:Royal Rumble, Template:SummerSlam, Template:Survivor Series, Template:Unforgiven, Template:Vegeance, Template:Vengeance, Template:WrestleMania, and Template:Former WWEPPV.
• Requested moves
  • Current: WWE One Night Stand to WWE Extreme Rules (discussion)
  • Not moved: WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs to TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (discussion)

—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 November 8, we are at 11.76%, with 521 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 232 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

Editing Tips

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

1. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so do not add speculation about future events to articles.
2. Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
3. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
4. 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.
5. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.

Contributors to this Issue

• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• Wrestlinglover (talk · contribs)

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