Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 058

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling Newsletter
Issue LVIII - December 20, 2009

Project in Review

As of December 2009:

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	19	83	244		352
	C	1	8	61	285		355
	Start	7	49	295	2171		2522
	Stub			16	522	1	539
	List		3	29	645	1	678
	Future			3	8		11
	Assessed	14	92	578	4012	2	4698
	Unassessed					7	7
	Total	14	92	578	4012	9	4705

Changes to Featured and Good Content

Promoted Featured articles:

None

Promoted Featured lists:

List of WCW World Television Champions (review page)

Promoted Featured topics:

None

Reassessed Featured content:

None

Promoted Good articles:

Jason Reso (review page)
Adam Copeland (review page)

Promoted Good topics:

None

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.
Rosey and The Hurricane (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
The following article appeared in the Did you know? column on the main page:
- December 17: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Deletion discussions:
- Articles for deletion
  - Current: American Angels- Baptism of Blood, List of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts, Michigan Championship Wrestling Association(MCWA), and UPWA Pro Wrestling.
  - Deleted: Billy The P, Brian Fury, MVP and Mark Henry, and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
- Templates for discussion
  - Current: Template:Slammy Award Winners

—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 December 20, we are at 11.29%, with 531 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.
- As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
Based on the members list, there are currently 233 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 months of December and January.

December:
- 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Final Resolution
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

Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Davey Richards to win the FIP World Heavyweight Championship at a Dragon Gate show in Japan on December 6.
On December 8, Tajiri was announced as the producer of a new Japanese promotion, Smash!.
On December 10:
- It was announced that current TNA wrestler Bobby Lashley had signed a deal to compete in mixed martial arts for Strikeforce.
- It was reported that Universal Championship Wrestling promoter and wrestler, "The Shooter" Ronnie Gossett, had been hospitalised after a heart attack.
On December 11:
- It was reported that Bobby Heenan had been hopitalised with an infection in his rebuilt jaw.
- Ontario independent wrestler Damien Truth (real name Damien Evans) died from a heart attack in Brampton at the age of 29.
At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs on December 13:
- Drew McIntyre defeated John Morrison to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
- Sheamus won the WWE Championship by defeating John Cena in a Tables match.
- D-Generation X (Shawn Michaels and Triple H) defeated Chris Jericho and The Big Show in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship.
On December 16:
- It was reported that Bret Hart had re-signed with WWE on a short-term contract.
- Christy Hemme announced her retirement from in-ring competition, although she will remain affiliated with TNA.
On December 18, it was reported that TNA backstage interviewer, Lauren Brooke, had left the company.
At ROH's first live pay-per-view, Final Battle 2009, on December 19:
- Larry Sweeney made his ROH return as a color commentator.
- The Briscoe Brothers defeated The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for a record sixth time.

Editing Tips

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

Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so do not add speculation about future events to articles.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.

Contributors to this Issue

From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!

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