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Main Page redesign
The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll to select five new designs, before an RFC in which one will be proposed to replace the Main Page. The poll closes on October 31st. Your input would be hugely appreciated! Many thanks, PretzelsTalk! 10:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 592. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
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There are currently 601 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
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Yes I can. And wow that was fast for this time of night. PXKT/C 01:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
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This is a new section in the newsletter to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style, which should help them in editing not only professional wrestling articles, but all articles in general.
Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
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Avoid jargon such as face/babayface, heel, turn, etc. in articles. People unfamiliar with professional wrestling will not understand what these words mean. See WP:JARGON for more information.
Professional wrestling article stats
There are currently 601 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Delivered: 17:37, 7 December 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)
ECW
There was a consensus at WP:PW to leave it under RAW. The title is still a RAW title, it is only listed under the ECW superstars page since both champions are ECW wrestlers. TJSpyke 19:27, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
No problem, people who don't check WP:PW probably wouldn't be aware of it. I put a hidden message on the page so that anybody who gos to edit it will see that it was agreed not to add the title to the ECW page. TJSpyke 19:53, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
This is a new section in the newsletter to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
There is a new consensus to remove notes such as most reigns, first reign, last reign, etc. in the championships and accomplishments section. See here for more information.
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Professional wrestling article stats
There are currently 616 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Delivered: 10:45, 21 December 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)
Merry Christmas from Promethean
O'Hai there Crisis, Merry Christmas!
Crisis, I wish you and your family all the best this Christmas and that you also have a Happy and safe new year. Thankyou for all your contributions to Wikipedia this year and I look forward to seeing many more from you in the future. Your work around Wikipedia has not gone un-noticed, this notice is testimony to that Please feel free to drop by my talkpage any time to say Hi, as I will probably say Hi back :)
Just curious how unblanking it after a grand total of 30 minutes of non-unanimous discussion helped anything? Not a rhetorical question, but a real one. How did your edit help anything? Is this a crisis of some kind? That was uncool, IMHO. --barneca (talk) 18:18, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thank you for your assistance
Hello, i am Teledildonix314, and i wanted to send you an email but your info is private so i am using your Talk page instead. Sorry if this clutters your Talk page, i understand you might want to delete this after you read my words, to keep your page neat and personalized.
I am writing because i want to apologize to you. I can see now that you were doing your ordinary work as an editor and as an administrator, and you were probably thinking i could be helped by a few of your well-intended words and messages. Unfortunately, at the time, i had felt like i was being attacked by editors and administrators, and i stupidly did not make an effort to listen to you carefully because i was all inflamed and impatient and unwilling to proceed reasonably. I hope you will forgive that type of behavior, i will try very hard to avoid ever being like that in the future.
I wanted to contribute and i thought people were being disrespectful, and then when you came along to help i just didn't listen and i accidentally let some of my resentment get directed toward you. I am sorry i hurt your feelings, i can see that i was wrong. In the future i will be a million times more cautious and slow before i reply to anybody because i don't want to make the same mistakes again. I feel like i am gradually learning how to improve my participation and contributions here, and i thank you for helping me to learn. Teledildonix314 (talk) 19:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Re:GA
Right now I don't believe I will be able to work or commit myself to anything because I am about to restart school, but what kind of article did you have in mind?--Truco 23:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
It looks as if its at GA quality at the moment, it is just missing a lead. I can write the lead, and copyedit the article, but what are you going to do?--Truco 23:23, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
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I don't think it matters anyway. I did not nominate it during the round, it just passed during it. I don't think it counts.--WillC 00:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
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Professional wrestling article stats
There are currently 617 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Spencer has had 1 successful "In the news" nomination.
From the Judges
This years WikiCup started off great! It's only the second full week of competition, and we already have a lot of content promoted. We have some very close pools, such as Pool A and J. We also have some pools who have not been very active yet, but hopefully that will start changing in the coming weeks.
Garden and iMatthew have also opened a new pool, the "Judge's Pool" where we are competing against each other and following the same rules as all of you. This pool however, will never have any effect on the actual competition, but you can still check back often to see how we are doing compared to yourself.
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Current leaders
In this round of the WikiCup, the top three contestants from each pool will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Catalan (138)
Gary King (86)
Spencer (67)
Pool B
Sceptre (22)
Spittlespat (7)
Greatestrowerever, Malinaccier (6)
Pool C
Candlewicke (60)
Scorpion0422 (24)
Steven Walling (9)
Pool D
NapHit (27)
ThinkBlue (18)
97198 (11)
Pool E
X! (69)
Sasata (10)
LOTRrules (4)
Pool F
Bedford (29)
RyanCross (21)
the_ed17, Howard the Duck (5)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (46)
Skinny87 (16)
What!?Why?Who?, Pedro_João, Ceranthor (2)
Pool H
Juliancolton (133)
Tinucherian (41)
Ottava Rima (28)
Pool I
Durova (144)
Theleftorium (121)
Wrestlinglover (15)
Pool J
Paxse (78)
Climie.ca (67)
Useight (46)
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There are currently 616 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
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