Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 060 - Wikipedia

Project in Review

As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		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

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.

1. Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
2. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
3. 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.

Contributors to this Issue

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

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