Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 059

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

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

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.

Contributors to this Issue

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