Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 037

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue XXXVII - March 1, 2009

Project in Review

As of February 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			6	5	11
	FL			12	15	27
	GA		6	35	79	120
	B	1	18	65	207	291
	C		3	23	113	139
	Start	2	53	233	1855	2143
	Stub		2	21	534	557
	List		3	23	594	620
	Future			4	15	19
	Assessed	3	85	422	3417	3927
	Total	3	85	422	3417	3927

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:

Wendi Richter (review page)
Vengeance (2006) (review page)

Promoted Good topics:

None

Reassessed Good content:

None

Other Project News

Backlash (2006) (review page) was not promoted to Featured article status.
Blond Bombers, Bob Holly, Darren Matthews, John Hennigan, John Morrison and The Miz, Mike Mizanin, Montel Vontavious Porter, Mr. Kennedy, Rip Hawk, Swede Hanson (wrestler), and Turning Point (2004) are current Good article nominees.
Triplemanía appeared on the Did You Know? column on the main page On February 26.
History of World Wrestling Federation was merged back into History of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Based on the members list, there are currently 212 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
There are currently 581 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.
The WP:PW Cleanup listing was updated this week by the bot for the first time since October. A number of Featured lists, Featured articles, and Good articles are listed as having problems. Anyone who fixes a problem with an article should remove it from the listing, so we can accurately keep track of it. All members are encouraged to help out.
There is an ongoing discussion here regarding what constitutes a "World Championship". All members are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

Events Calender

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.

8 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Destination X

Recent Professional Wrestling News

At No Way Out

Triple H won his record eighth WWE Championship by winning the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match; this win surpassed The Rock's original record of seven reigns.
Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship by winning the Raw Elimination Chamber match.

It was announced on the February 16 episode of Raw that Terry and Dory Funk, Jr. will be the second and third inductees, into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009; they will be inducted by Dusty Rhodes.
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced on February 19 that their February 16 broadcast of Raw had gained a 4.1 television rating, the largest since the February 26, 2007 episode of Raw.
On February 20:

HDNet announced that episode airings of Ring of Honor would begin on March 31.
It was reported by a Nielsen Media Research ratings report that the February 19 broadcast of TNA's Impact earned a 1.3 television rating, the highest rounded number the promotion has ever drawn.
WWE announced the release of Scotty Goldman from the company.
On an episode of Friday Night SmackDown, WWE announced the return of Gail Kim to the promotion via a video promo.

It was reported on February 21 that Sonjay Dutt had been released from his TNA contract, and this was confirmed with the removal of his profile from TNA's official website.
On February 20, it was reported that Freddie Prinze, Jr., a scriptwriter for Friday Night SmackDown, had been released from his contract with WWE.
On February 23:

Afa Anoa'i, Jr., known by his ring name "Manu", was released from his WWE contract.
On Raw, it was announced that Ricky Steamboat will be the fourth inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009; he will be inducted by Ric Flair.

WWE confirmed on February 24 that WrestleMania XXVI would be held in Glendale, Arizona at the University of Phoenix Stadium on March 28, 2010.
On February 25, WWE announced that they had discontinued the WWE One Night Stand name, and that their 2009 event would be replaced with the name 'Extreme Rules'.
ROH taped the first episode airings of their television series for HDNet on February 28 from the The Arena.

Editing tips

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

All Wikipedia articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view.
Do not overlink terms in an article, only make links where they are relevant to the context, and only link each item once. Tables are the exception to this rule, e.g. the results table in pay-per-view articles.
When editing an article, use the edit summary to provide a brief summary of your edits; this helps users understand what was changed in the article.
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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
Per WP:MOSCAPS, television shows, such as RAW and iMPACT!, should be written as Raw and Impact!.

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