Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 024

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Project Updates Featured news SummerSlam (2003) (link) has been elevated to Featured Article status December to Dismember (2006) (link) was under Featured Article review, the result was to keep it as a Featured Article. List of celebrities involved at WrestleMania (link) is a current Featured List candidate. 2008 WWE Draft has been elevated to Featured List status, its nomination page can be found, here. IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate. Good article news Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992), Survivor Series (1993), The Great American Bash (2005), and WrestleMania (1985) are currently Good article candidates. Juggernaut (wrestler) (link) has passed it's Good Article nomination. Other project news Matt Sydal (link) and Unforgiven (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review. Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here. This Month in Wrestling History August 17, 1997 - Shane Douglas defeated Sabu and Terry Funk in a triangle match for the ECW Heavyweight title. August 19, 2001 - The Rock defeated Booker T to win the WCW Championship. August 21, 1979 - Dusty Rhodes defeated Harley Race for the NWA Heavyweight Wrestling title. August 22, 2000 - Lita defeated Stephanie MaMahon-Helmsley for the WWF Women's Championship. August 27, 1994 - "Eastern Championship Wrestling" was renamed "Extreme Championship Wrestling". August 31, 1997 - Kensuke Sasaki defeated Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Professional Wrestling Article Stats Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It 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. Professional wrestling articles Importance Top High Mid Low Total Quality FA 2 3 5 FL 1 7 15 23 GA 5 20 57 82 B 1 15 68 203 287 C 1 10 63 74 Start 2 49 203 1751 2005 Stub 1 23 595 619 List 2 20 573 595 Assessed 3 74 353 3260 3690 Total 3 74 353 3260 3690

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 414 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. On the calendar: For the month of August: 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice 12 - NickSentowski's birthday 16 - Lakers244805's birthday 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday Recent News At SummerSlam, Beth Phoenix and Santino Marella defeated Mickie James and Kofi Kingston to win the WWE Women's and Intercontinental Championships, respectively. Collaboration of the Week The article collaborations for August 31 through September 12 are TBA and TBD. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on September 13. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: Intercontinental Champion and La Familia (professional wrestling). Kept: Yogeshwar Dutt. Redirected/Merged: Deleted: Glamarella, National Wrestling Coalition, and Robert Johnston (English Professional Wrestler). From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: Honorable mention must be given to SRX for getting the professional wrestling project it's second pay-per-view featured article, in SummerSlam (2003). Thanks to SRX's hard work, the project will without a doubt, produce more and more featured pay-per-view articles. -- iMatthew T.C. NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback