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Pthalo

A tag has been placed on Pthalo, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Darksun 12:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to WWE Backlash

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Crusader Design Project

The article Crusader Design Project has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki 14:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

Hello! The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for October 6 - October 13 is N/A. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, October 14. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! | Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! You are receiving this notification because you are listed as a member of the Professional Wrestling WikiProject. If you no longer wish to receive this notice, then please add your name to this list.

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Hello! The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for October 14 - October 20 is N/A. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, October 21. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! | Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! You are receiving this notification because you are listed as a member of the Professional Wrestling WikiProject. If you no longer wish to receive this notice, then please add your name to this list.

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Hello! The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for October 21 - October 27 is Hulk Hogan. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, October 28. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! | Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! You are receiving this notification because you are listed as a member of the Professional Wrestling WikiProject. If you no longer wish to receive this notice, then please add your name to this list.

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Hello! The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for October 28 - November 3 is Bobby Eaton . Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, October 28. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! | Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! You are receiving this notification because you are listed as a member of the Professional Wrestling WikiProject. If you no longer wish to receive this notice, then please add your name to this list.

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Hello! The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for November 4 - November 10 is Adam Copeland. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, November 11. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! | Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! You are receiving this notification because you are listed as a member of the Professional Wrestling WikiProject. If you no longer wish to receive this notice, then please add your name to this list.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue I - November 11, 2007

Project News Montreal Screwjob was featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article" on November 9, 2007. December to Dismember (2006) and Shelton Benjamin have been elevated to Featured article status. Their respective nomination pages can see viewed here and here. Bobby Eaton is currently a Featured Article candidate. It's nomination page can be found here. Images of Beth Phoenix and the Crippler Crossface are currently Featured picture candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. IWGP World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Women's Championship are currently Featured list candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. Al Costello, In Your House 1: Premiere and One Night Stand (2005) have been elevated to Good article status. Cyber Sunday (2007), Melina Perez, One Night Stand (2006) and Randy Orton are currently Good article candidates.

Current Events Solofa Fatu (known as Junior Fatu, and previously as Rikishi) was released from Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on October 25 2007 over a financial dispute, ending his short lived return to television. John Layfield's wife takes serious heat over Citigroup financial advice on November 1 2007. Brooke Adams (known simply as Brooke) was released from World Wrestling Entertainment on November 1 2007. Lilian Ellison (known as The Fabulous Moolah) passed away November 2 2007 at age 84. Chris Mordetsky and Harry Smith (known as Chris Masters and D.H. Smith, respectively) were suspended from World Wrestling Entertainment as of November 2 2007 for Wellness Policy violations. Mordetsky was released from his contract six says later.

Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for November 11 - November 17 is World Wrestling Entertainment. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, November 18. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! From the Editor Welcome to the inaugural edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! I hope this will be a good source of news to those people interested in what's happening around our pro wrestlimg community. I plan to release it every Sunday. This newsletter will just be a way to get the community announcements to people who don't have the time to check the mesageboards, as well that to those just curious about the news. The newsleter will consist of a project news section (to do with what's happening on Wikipedia), and a current events section (relating to news in the "real world"). The newslette will also contain the Collaboration of the Week announcement. That's all. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please post them at this talk page. ~ The Chronic Contributors to this Issue: Gavyn Sykes — LAX — Nahallac Silverwinds — The Chronic — The Hybrid

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue II — November 25, 2007

Project News Bobby Eaton has been elevated to Featured article status. Its nomination page can be viewed here. In Your House 1 is currently a Featured Article candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. IWGP World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Women's Championship have been elevated to Featured list status. Their respective nomination pages can be viewed here and here. Melina Perez and One Night Stand (2006) have been elevated to Good article status. Amy Dumas, Briscoe Brothers, Don Kent (wrestler), Mickie James, Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (1994), and WrestleMania III are currently Good article candidates. Current Events Booker Huffman and Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman (known as Booker T and Sharmell, respectively) debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on November 11 2007 at the Genesis pay-per-view, nearly three weeks after being released from World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE released the video game WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 on November 13 2007. The game is available for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Wii consoles. John Cena takes heat from CNN after an interview involving mentions of steroids. Christopher Irvine (known as Chris Jericho) returned to WWE after a two year hiatus, debuting on the November 19 2007 edition of RAW following months of speculation. Matt Hardy suffered from an inflamed appendix, rendering him unable to wrestle at Survivor Series and possibly for 8-10 weeks. Collaboration of the Week The monthly featured article collaboration for November 25 - December 1 is Triple H. Please help improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, December 2. Last week's collaboration of the week was History of professional wrestling. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member News There are currently 413 members participating in WP:PW (based on the members list). Lid successfully passed his RFA and is now an administrator. The RFA discussion can be viewed here. Nikki311 successfully passed her RFA and is now an administrator. The RFA discussion can be viewed here. Aaru Bui has retired from Wikipedia. The Hybrid took a wikibreak from 06:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC) to 06:23, 25 November 2007 (UTC). On the calendar: Dec. 1 - Lakersprototype2448's birthday Dec. 2 - TNA presents Turning Point Dec. 16 - WWE presents Armageddon Dec. 23 - Paulley's birthday Dec. 24 - Racer38's birthday From the Editor Welcome to the second issue of the WP:PW newsletter. We apologize for the delay. There was an issue regarding the delivery process. Anyways, we had a lot of good feedback for the last newsletter. We not only received feedback at the newsletter's talk page, but I also received some messages on my talk page as well. Thank you to those who responded. The only complaint we received was about typos, and we will try our best to keep the newsletter error-free. Please continue to offer feedback and new ideas for the next issue. The more we have, the more we'll know how to improve the newsletter. Again, thanks! -The Chronic Contributors to this Issue: Alex Roggio (talk · contribs) Davnel03 (talk · contribs) Nahallac Silverwinds (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) TJ Spyke (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue III — December 2, 2007

Project News In Your House 1 is currently a Featured Article candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. IWGP World Tag Team Championship and WWE One Night Stand are currently Featured list candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. An image of Triple H's ring entrance is currently a Featured picture candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. Amy Dumas, Briscoe Brothers, Don Kent (wrestler), Mickie James, Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (1994), and WrestleMania III are currently Good article candidates. New Year's Revolution (2007), No Way Out (2007), and SummerSlam (2007) have each been listed for peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for their improvement. Their respective peer reviews can be found here, here, and here. Current Events The Shawn Michaels Story: Heartbreak & Triumph, a WWE Home Video DVD of Shawn Michaels, was released on November 27 2007. According to her blog, WWE Diva Torrie Wilson will be taking a couple of weeks off to undergo physical therapy for back problems. Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for December 2 - December 8 is Stone Cold Steve Austin. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, December 9. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member News There are currently 294 members participating in WP:PW (based on the members list). On the calendar: Dec. 2 - TNA presents Turning Point Dec. 16 - WWE presents Armageddon Dec. 23 - Paulley's birthday Dec. 24 - Racer38's birthday Dec. 27 - Truco9311's birthday From the Editors Welcome to the third edition of the WP:PW newsletter. We need people to begin contacting us with current events. If you can think of anything taking place in the wrestling world that you feel should be added to the newsletter, as well as any other suggestions, then please let us know. Thanks everyone, ~ The Chronic / The Hybrid T/C Contributors to this Issue: Alex Roggio (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) TJ Spyke (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue IV — December 9, 2007

Project News In Your House 1 failed Featured Article nomination. Its nomination page can be viewed here. IWGP World Tag Team Championship and WWE One Night Stand are currently Featured list candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. An image of Triple H's ring entrance failed Featured picture nomination. Its nomination page can be viewed here. Amy Dumas and Royal Rumble (1994) have been elevated to Good article status. Briscoe Brothers, Don Kent (wrestler), Mickie James, Randy Orton, and WrestleMania III are currently Good article candidates. Current Events WWE Monday Night Raw will celebrate its 15th year anniversary in a three-hour telecast on December 10 2007 on the USA Network. Brandon Silvestry (known as Senshi) has been released by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for December 9 through December 15 is The Undertaker. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, December 16. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 295 members participating in WP:PW. On the calendar: Dec. 16 - WWE presents Armageddon Dec. 23 - Paulley's birthday Dec. 24 - Racer38's birthday Dec. 27 - Truco9311's birthday From the Editors If you have any feedback on the newsletter so far, or if you want to offer suggestions to help inprove the newsletter, then please let us know. Thanks. Contributors to this Issue: Alex Roggio (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) Save Us 229 (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue V — December 16, 2007

Project News IWGP World Tag Team Championship has been elevated to Featured list status. Its nomination page can be viewed here. WWE One Night Stand failed Featured list nomination. Its nomination page can be viewed here. Randy Orton failed its Good Article nomination. AJPW Triple Crown Championship and Royal Rumble are currently Featured list candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. Briscoe Brothers, Don Kent (wrestler), King of the Ring (1994), Mickie James, and WrestleMania III are currently Good article candidates. No Way Out (2004) and SummerSlam (2007) have each been listed for peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for their improvement. Their respective peer reviews can be found here and here. Current Events Ric Flair's 19-year-old son Reid Fliehr has been signed to a developmental contract by World Wrestling Entertainment. Jake Roberts took up an offer from World Wrestling Entertainment to pay for drug rehab for any former WWE wrestler. Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for December 16 through December 22 is The Fabulous Moolah. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The monthly featured article collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, December 23. Cast your vote to select the monthly featured article collaboration! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 298 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling On the calendar: Dec. 16 - WWE presents Armageddon Dec. 23 - Paulley's birthday Dec. 24 - Racer38's birthday Dec. 27 - Truco9311's birthday From the Editors The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter is starting up an interview segment that has been in the works for some time now. The current schedule for interviews can be seen here. If you would like to submit a question for an interviewee, please do so by following the instructions here. We are accepting questions for any future interviews. If you would like to sign up to be interviewed, then you may do so here. We hope that this segment will be one of the most popular this project's newsletter has to offer, and promote a greater sense of community amongst the project members. The first interview will be published in next week's issue, and will be with TJ Spyke. In other matters, we are still running low on current events. If you know of any in the wrestling world that you believe merit mention in the newsletter, or wish to comment on any other aspect of the newsletter, then please contact us here. Thanks everyone, and enjoy the holiday season. ~ The Hybrid T/C Contributors to this Issue: GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) TJ Spyke (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue VI — December 23, 2007
Project News A professional wrestling portal has been established, and WikiProject Professional wrestling is expected to maintain it. Please help in its construction and keeping it up to date in the long run. Mickie James has been elevated to Good article status. Don Kent (wrestler) failed its Good article nomination. AJPW Triple Crown Championship and Royal Rumble are currently Featured list candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. Briscoe Brothers, King of the Ring (1994) and WrestleMania III are currently Good article candidates. No Way Out (2004), SummerSlam (2007), and In Your House 1 have each been listed for peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for their improvement. Their respective peer reviews can be found here, here, and here. Current Events On the December 17 edition of Raw, it was announced that former WWE superstar John "Bradshaw" Layfield has decided to return to the ring on the Raw brand. It is unknown if he will continue to color commentate on SmackDown!. Former WWE and TNA wrestler Andrew "Test" Martin has announced his plans to retire from professional wrestling. Collaboration of the Week The monthly featured article collaboration for December 23 - December 29 is John Cena. Please help improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, December 30. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Member Interview The first interviewee is TJ Spyke. The interview can be viewed here. Next week's interviewee is The Hybrid. Submit a question to ask The Hybrid here.	Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 300 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: Dec. 23 - Paulley's birthday Dec. 24 - Racer38's birthday Dec. 27 - Truco9311's birthday Dec. 28 - FamicomJL's birthday From the Editors A new feature for the newsletter is the member interview segment, seen to the left of this newsletter. Each week, a user will be interviewed in a questionnaire. Other users will have the chance to submit questions to ask the user (to be included in the interview). Questions can be submitted here. If you would like to be interviewed for a future issue, go to the newsletter's talk page and apply there. We still need people to contact us about current events. If you know of any in the wrestling world that is worth notable in the next issue, or wish to comment on any other aspect of the newsletter, then please contact us here. Happy holidays! ~ The Chronic Contributors to this Issue: Alex Roggio (talk · contribs) Gavyn Sykes (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback
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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue VII — December 30, 2007
Project News AJPW Triple Crown Championship has been elevated to Featured list status. Its nomination page can be viewed here. Royal Rumble and 2007 WWE Draft are currently Featured list candidates. Their respective nomination pages can be found here and here. Briscoe Brothers, King of the Ring (1994), No Way Out (2004), and WrestleMania III are currently Good article candidates. In Your House 1 and Vengeance (2006) have each been listed for peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for their improvement. Their respective peer reviews can be found here and here. The recent focus on improving stub articles has reduced the number of stubs from 777 to 732 since December 15. For more information, check out the stub article subpage. Current Events Lance Cade was injured after separating his left shoulder at a live event on December 28, 2007 Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for December 30 through January 5 is Dusty Rhodes (wrestler). Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, January 6. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Member Interview This week's interviewee is The Hybrid. The interview can be viewed here. Next week's interviewee is The Chronic. Submit a question to ask The Chronic here.	Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 306 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: Jan. 6 - TNA presents Final Resolution Jan. 21 - Suriel1981's birthday Jan. 27 - WWE presents Royal Rumble Jan. 29 - 3bulletproof16's birthday Jan. 31 - Nahallac Silverwinds's birthday From the Editors We sincerely hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas/holiday, and would like to wish you and yours, a very Happy New Year! Contributors to this Issue: D.M.N. (talk · contribs) GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Gavyn Sykes (talk · contribs) Hardyboyz27 (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) TJ Spyke (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback
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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue VIII — January 6, 2008
Project News Royal Rumble has been elevated to Featured list status. Its nomination page can be viewed here. WrestleMania III has been elevated to Good article status. New Year's Revolution (2007) is currently a Featured article candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. 2007 WWE Draft is currently a Featured list candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. Briscoe Brothers, King of the Ring (1994) and No Way Out (2004) are currently Good article candidates. The focus on improving Stub-class articles is continuing to pay off, as the number of stubs has reduced from 732 to 717 over the past week. To see a list of important stubs that need some work, or to suggest a stub that you think should be improved, check out stub article subpage. Current Events As of January 2, SmackDown! Superstar Drew McIntyre has been drafted to the Raw brand. As of January 4, Raw Assistant General Manager, Jonathan Coachman has been drafted to the Smackdown! brand to replace JBL as color commentator. On January 12, World Wrestling Entertainment, in conjunction with Bakus International, will begin airing WWE Programming on Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) in Brazil. Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for January 6 through January 12 is Dusty Rhodes (wrestler). Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, January 13. This week's collaboration will remain the same as last week's. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!	Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 310 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. Based on the active members list, there are currently 27 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: Jan. 6 - TNA presents Final Resolution Jan. 12 - Inuyasha73036's birthday Jan. 21 - Suriel1981's birthday Jan. 27 - WWE presents Royal Rumble Jan. 29 - 3bulletproof16's birthday Jan. 31 - Nahallac Silverwinds's birthday Member Interview Due to the length of the queue list, we will begin doing two interviews a week. This week's interviewees are The Chronic (link) and Gavyn Sykes (link). Next week's interviewees are Speed CG and Nikki311. Submit a question to ask them here. From the Editors Sorry for the late newsletter delivery. ~ The Chronic Contributors to this Issue: Alex Roggio (talk · contribs) GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Hardyboyz27 (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) The Hybrid (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback
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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue IX — January 20, 2008
Project News New Year's Revolution (2007) is currently a Featured article candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship is currently a Featured list candidate. Its nomination page can be found here. SummerSlam (1994) and Royal Rumble (2005) have been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions on how they can be improved before they are nominated for Good Article status. Their respective peer reviews can be found here and here. Briscoe Brothers and King of the Ring (1994) have been elevated to Good article status. No Way Out (2004) is a currently Good article candidate. 2007 WWE Draft failed its nomination for Featured list status. The discussion can be found here Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 317 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. Based on the active members list, there are currently 31 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: Jan. 21 - Suriel1981's birthday Jan. 27 - WWE presents Royal Rumble Jan. 29 - 3bulletproof16's birthday Jan. 31 - Nahallac Silverwinds's birthday Current Events World Wrestling Entertainment will begin broadcasting their programming in high-definition. Several wrestling news sites report that former Total Nonstop Action Wrestling stars Ron Killings and Chris Harris have been in talks with WWE. In addition The Big Show is said to be returning as well. Be on the look out for unsourced claims of these signing being added to their respective articles as well as the WWE Roster article. As of January 7, deturning Smackdown! Diva, Ashley Massaro has been drafted to the Raw brand. Collaboration of the Week The Pro Wrestling Collaboration of the Week for January 20 through January 26 is Ricky Banderas. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The monthly featured article collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, January 20. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Member Interview This week's interviewees are Speed CG (link) and Nikki311 (link). Next week's interviewees are Zenlax and ThinkBlue. Submit a question to ask them here.	Articles for Deletion Current K.C. James and Idol Stevens SlamTV! Kept Colin Delaney Kafu PWI's list of wrestling World Heavyweight Title reigns (merged into Pro Wrestling Illustrated) Deleted CWF Heavyweight Champonship Domino (wrestler) (redirected to Cliff Compton) Jamie Lee Stone John Cena and Shawn Michaels List of 2008 Extreme Championship Wrestling results Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa roster Shannon Moore and Jimmy Wang Yang Velvet Love Entertainment WWE Jakks Classic Superstars Action Figures WWE vs. ECW Head to Head Category:Professional wrestling champions Category:World Champion Stables Category:WWE celebrities Professional Wrestling Article Stats The focus on improving Stub-class articles is continuing to pay off, as the number of stubs has reduced from 717 to 706 over the past two weeks. The goal for this week is to get it down to 700, so please check out the stub article subpage to see what you can help with. Professional wrestling articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 4 21 25 GA 4 4 19 27 B 1 10 29 169 209 Start 1 45 181 2061 2288 Stub 1 25 680 706 Assessed 2 60 243 2950 3255 Unassessed 9 9 Total 2 60 243 2950 9 3264 From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: Sorry for the late newsletter delivery. - iMatthew GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Gavyn Sykes (talk · contribs) iMatthew (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) Speed CG (talk · contribs) The Chronic (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback
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Project News Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., and Vengeance (2005) have been elevated to Good article status. Acolytes Protection Agency, Backlash (2006), Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Judgment Day (2005), Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (2005), Stacy Keibler, and Survivor Series (2005) are currently Good article candidates. Current Events William Regal won the King of the Ring tournament on the April 21 edition of Raw. Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain, made special appearance on Raw, via the titantron to address the Raw fans. During Backlash, Triple H became the new WWE Champion by defeating Randy Orton. Matt Hardy defeated MVP and became the new United States Champion. The Undertaker had the World Heavyweight Championship taken from him on the May 2 episode of SmackDown!. Articles for Deletion Current: Giovanni picarazzi. Kept: Deleted: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler), Xterminator (wrestler), The Playa (wrestler), Kalahari Boerboel (wrestler), InterMat. Professional Wrestling Article Stats Since the last issue, the number of stub articles has decreased again. 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 5 15 21 GA 4 11 31 47 B 1 12 51 199 265 Start 2 51 220 2316 2593 Stub 1 23 609 629 Assessed 3 69 313 3175 3559 Total 3 69 312 3173 3559

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 377 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: 4 - S-pac54's birthday 8 - The Chronic's birthday 11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day 18 - Self Preteder's birthday 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday Collaboration of the Week The article collaboration for April 27 through May 11 is National Wrestling Alliance. The featured article collaboration is Amy Dumas. 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 Sunday, May 11. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Editor of the Week Welcome to the Editor of the Week! Our first editor of the week is Nikki311, who won with 6 votes. The runner-up, LAX came in second with 3 votes. Nikki311's award page can be found here. Congratulations Nikki! From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) iMatthew (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) RkOrton (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project News Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Stacy Keibler, Randy Orton, and Acolytes Protection Agency have been elevated to Good article status. Over the Edge (1999) failed its Good article nomination, but has been reassessed here. Backlash (2006), Backlash (2007), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), Survivor Series (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates. Current Events Torrie Wilson was released by WWE on May 8. L.A.X. won the vacated TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result of defeating Team 3D in the Deuces Wild tournament final at TNA Sacrifice. Also at TNA Sacrifice, Samoa Joe defeated Scott Steiner and Kaz to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. During WWE Backlash, Triple H, The Miz and John Morrison, and Mickie James retained the WWE Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship, and WWE Women's Championship, respectively. Articles for Deletion Current: Africa Wrestling Alliance, International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior. Kept: TNA 2005 Super X Cup Tournament, TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament. Redirected: Deuces Wild Tournament, Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol.2. Deleted: Sean Creed, Giovanni picarazzi, Cf Turbo, Mother's Day Massacre (2008), Boerseun (wrestler), Nizaam Hartley, The Taxidriver (wrestler), Scorpion Kruger (wrestler), The Blacksmith (wrestler), RingDivas Womens Wrestling, Parrow Civic Centre, Nightmare (wrestler), Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa, Steve Eden (wrestler). Professional Wrestling Article Stats The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. 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 5 15 21 GA 4 12 34 50 B 1 13 55 203 272 Start 2 52 220 2328 2604 Stub 1 23 606 628 Assessed 3 71 317 3189 3580 Total 3 71 317 3189 3580

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. Based on the active members list, there are currently 38 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary Collaboration of the Week The article collaborations for May 11 through May 24 are Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and John Layfield. 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 Sunday, May 25. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Editor of the Week Our second editor of the week is GaryColemanFan, who won with 4 votes. The runner-up, D.M.N., came in second with 3 votes. GaryColemanFan's award page and interview can be found here. Congratulations! The interview portion of the award page was just recently added. To see Nikki311's interview, go to her award page here From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: IMatthew (talk · contribs) LAX (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project News Backlash (2006), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), and Survivor Series (2005) have been elevated to Good Article status. SummerSlam (2007) (link) and SummerSlam (1988) (link) have been nominated for Featured Article status. Backlash (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Paul London, Royal Rumble (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates. Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here. Current Events Darren Matthews (William Regal) was suspended by WWE for 60 days for breaching the Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy. The 2008 WWE Draft was announced by World Wrestling Entertainment chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008. At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H. Also, at One Night Stand, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe forced to leave WWE. The Month in Wrestling History May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge. May 21, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title. May 22, 2000 - Vince Russo stripped Ric Flair of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and awarded it to Jeff Jarret. May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack. May 19, 2004 - Ron Killings won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Professional Wrestling Article Stats The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. 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 5 15 21 GA 4 15 39 58 B 1 13 57 203 274 Start 2 52 221 2331 2606 Stub 1 23 600 624 Assessed 3 71 323 3191 3588 Total 3 71 323 3191 3588

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling. NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members. On the calendar: 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday 29 - CJMiller's birthday 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary Collaboration of the Week The article collaboration for May 25 through June 7 is Rick Rude. The Featured article collaboration is Carly Colón. 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 Sunday, June 8. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom. Redirected: Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10. From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: IMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project News SummerSlam (1988) and SummerSlam (2007) have both failed their Featured Article Candidacy's, their review pages can be found here and here, respectively. List of WWE SmackDown video game titles (link) has been nominated for Featured List status. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (link) has been nominated for removal as a Featured List. Paul London, SummerSlam (2004), Survivor Series (1994), and WWE SmackDown (video game series) are currently Good article candidates. Backlash (2007) (link), Unforgiven (2006) (link), The Rock (entertainer) (link), One Night Stand (2007) (link), The Great American Bash (2007) (link) and Royal Rumble (2005) (link) have been elevated to Good article status. Over the Edge (1999) has passed its reassessment and is now a good article! The article's reassessment can be found here. A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the Wrestling event infobox, please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles. The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class. The Month in Wrestling History June 1, 1998 - Junkyard Dog died at the age of forty-five in an automobile accident. June 2, 2003 - Freddie Blassie died at the age of eighty-five from natural causes. June 10, 1983 - Harley Race defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven. June 13, 1993 - Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight title. June 19 2002 - AJ Styles became the first TNA X Division Champion. Professional Wrestling Article Stats The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. 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 5 15 21 GA 5 17 42 64 B 1 13 67 206 287 C 1 7 36 44 Start 2 53 211 2312 2578 Stub 1 24 604 629 Assessed 3 74 333 3218 3628 Total 3 74 333 3218 3628

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. On the calendar: 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary 10 - Chandlerjoeyross's birthday 10 - King Gemini's birthday 11 - Wweisreal's birthday 20 - Umdunno's birthday Current Events James Yun was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Policy. Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion." WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home. Collaboration of the Week The article collaboration for June 22 through July 5 is James Yun. The Featured article collaboration is Candice Michelle . 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 Sunday, July 5. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: Mark Beale. Kept: Triplemania, Antonio Peña. Redirected: Deleted: All Action Wrestling. From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: iMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project News December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link). Starrcade (1983) has failed its Featured Article nomination (link). List of WWE SmackDown video game titles has been elevated to Featured List status (link). IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been removed as a Featured List (link). Faces of Fear (link), Maria Kanellis (link), Paul London (link), Survivor Series (1994) (link), The Mega Bucks (link) and WWE SmackDown (video game series) (link) have been elevated to Good article status. Backlash (2003), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Survivor Series (2004) are currently Good article candidates. Lockdown (2008) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review. Category:Vengeance is being discussed at WP:CFD for renaming, it's discussion page can be found here. The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start-Class, but less than B-Class. Immediately put into effect, our project has begun use of the List-Class rating. The List-Class rating is for list articles that are of less quality than B-Class articles. Current Events At Night of Champions: Mark Henry became the new ECW Champion. Kofi Kingston won the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Cody Rhodes turned on Hardcore Holly to capture the World Tag Team Championship with Ted DiBiase. On June 30, CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw. Trevor Murdoch was released from WWE on July 3. The Month in Wrestling History June 24, 2001 - Edge defeated Kurt Angle in the finals of the 2001 King of the Ring. June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke at age 71. June 28, 1999 - Steve Austin defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title. July 2, 1969 - "Iron" Mike DiBiase died of a heart attack in the ring. July 3, 2001 - AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn become the first NWA World Tag Team Champions under the ownership of TNA, via winning a tournament final. Professional Wrestling Article Stats Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 631. 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 6 14 21 GA 5 17 45 67 B 1 14 65 202 282 C 1 10 44 55 Start 2 52 211 2310 2575 Stub 1 24 602 627 List 1 7 39 46 Assessed 3 74 335 3223 3639 Total 3 74 335 3223 3639

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 397 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. On the calendar: 29 - WWE presents Night of Champions 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays 13 - TNA presents Victory Road Collaboration of the Week The article collaborations for July 6 through July 19 are Sean Waltman and The Attitude Era. 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 July 20. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: Jack Korpela, List of Ring of Honor events, List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships, Beer Money Inc., and The Badd guys. Kept: Redirected/Merged: Mark Beale, and Eric Mastrocola. Deleted: List of ECW events. From the Editors As I'm sure you noticed above, this is the 20th edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! It has come a long way since the first issue, and I'm sure it will only improve from here. I'd like to thank everyone reading this for continuing to read the newsletter, biweekly. I'd like to especially thank those who have helped to get the newsletter to it's 20th edition; The Hybrid, The Chronic, TJ Spyke, Alex Roggio, LAX, ThinkBlue, Nikki311, GaryColemanFan, Gavyn Sykes, D.M.N., Naha, NiciVampireHeart, SRX, Zenlax and, RkOrton. Also, lastly I'd like to thank Misza13, for sending the newsletter out for us, though his bot. His bot has to be the most important part of the process, because without it, the newsletter would not get sent to project members. I know that's a long list, but they all deserve recognition for their hard work towards the newsletter. So again, thank you to that list of people, and thank you to all of the newsletter's biweekly readers. If you have an questions, comments, or feedback about the newsletter, remember those links below. -- iMatthew T.C. Contributors to this Issue: IMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project News A fact from Porkchop Cash and Armageddon (2006) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 11, 2008 and July 17, 2008, respectively. December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link). WWE No Way Out (link) and 2008 WWE Draft (link) are current Featured List candidates Backlash (2003) (link), Backlash (2004) (link), Survivor Series (2004) (link), and Unforgiven (2007) (link) have been elevated to Good article status. Cyber Sunday (2007), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), Royal Rumble (2007), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Vengeance: Night of Champions are currently Good article candidates. SummerSlam (2003) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review. Per this edit and the discussion here, date linking is not mandatory in articles. This mainly applies to the project's pay-per-view expanded articles. Please take this regulation in notice and apply it to the project's expanded pay-per view articles. New parameters have been added to the {{Infobox Wrestling event}} template, for the discussion explaining these parameters, see the discussion here Current Events Ashley Massaro was released from WWE on July 9. Taylor Wilde won the TNA Women's Championship on the July 10 edition of TNA Impact!, defeating Awesome Kong. This Month in Wrestling History July 9, 2000 - Booker T defeated Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. July 11, 1961 - Gene Kiniski defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. July 12, 1992 - Jimmy Snuka defeated Johnny Hot Body for the ECW Heavyweight Championship. July 12, 1999 - Hulk Hogan defeated Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight title. July 16, 2001 - Terry Gordy died of a heart attack at age 40. July 17, 1988 - Bruiser Brody died in Puerto Rica after being stabbed, aged 42. 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 6 14 21 GA 5 18 51 74 B 1 14 66 203 284 C 1 9 56 66 Start 2 50 202 1734 1988 Stub 1 23 601 625 List 2 20 572 594 Assessed 3 74 346 3234 3657 Total 3 74 346 3234 3657

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 401 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. On the calendar: 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays 13 - TNA presents Victory Road 19 - ProtoWolf's & The Founders Intent's birthday 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday 27 - Sundogs' birthday 29 - Kris Classic's birthday 31 - Normy's birthday Collaboration of the Week The article collaboration for July 20 through August 2 is Chris Jericho. The Featured article collaboration is Torrie Wilson. 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 August 3. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and List of wrestling championships. Kept: Redirected/Merged: List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships. Deleted: Jack Korpela (2), Velocity Championship Wrestling (VCW), List of Ring of Honor events, Marc Loyd, Tna Wrestlers Payroll, TNA INCOME, TNA payroll, Beer Money Inc., The Badd guys, and Cyme Tyme Cenation. From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: IMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project Updates Featured news SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review. WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status. 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate. Good article news Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates. Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status. SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination. Other project news Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review. A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column. Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here. WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here. This Month in Wrestling History July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship. June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71. July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion. July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship. August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title. 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 6 15 22 GA 5 20 56 81 B 1 15 67 203 286 C 1 10 60 71 Start 2 49 203 1735 1989 Stub 1 23 601 625 List 2 20 573 595 Assessed 3 74 351 3246 3674 Total 3 74 351 3246 3674

Member News Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling. On the calendar: For the month of July: 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays 13 - TNA presents Victory Road 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday 27 - Sundogs' birthday 29 - Kris Classic's birthday 31 - Normy's birthday 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 The Great American Bash: Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder won the WWE Tag Team Championship in a Fatal Four-Way match. Shelton Benjamin won the WWE United States Championship, defeating Matt Hardy. Michelle McCool defeated Natalya to become the inaugural WWE Divas Champion. TNA has posted a notice on their official website detailing a release of wrestler Kaz. This has been reported to be kayfabe by numerous other sites, but be prepared to revert edits to Kaz's article regarding this as well as List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling alumni A redesigned ECW Championship belt was introduced on July 22 during an episode of ECW. Mike Adamle was appointed the new General Manager of Raw. Todd Grisham has now taken over as the commentator for ECW. Collaboration of the Week The article collaborations for August 3 through August 16 are Gail Kim and The Kliq. 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 August 17. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: Between the Ropes, Rycklon Stephens, Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes. Kept: Mark Madden. Redirected/Merged: List of wrestling championships, Ranjin Singh. Deleted: Anastacia Rose McPherson, Dollar Store Wrestling, Jake Hardy, List of Current World Champions, and Simply Pricelss. From the Editors Contributors to this Issue: IMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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Project Updates Featured news SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate. December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review. 2008 WWE Draft (link). has been elevated to Featured List status. IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate. Good article news Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks, Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992) and The Great American Bash (2005) are currently Good article candidates. Sarah Stock (link) has been elevated to good article status. Other project news Matt Sydal (link) is currently under Peer Review. A fact from SummerSlam (1992)‎, Armageddon (2003), and Bad Blood (2003) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 9, 11, and 14 respectively. Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here. The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status. The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined. This Month in Wrestling History August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight championship. August 4, 1997 - Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight title. August 7, 2002 - Ron Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. August 8, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated Fritz Von Erich for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. August 9, 1999 - Jackie Sato died of stomach cancer at age 41. August 12, 1995 - Brad Armstrong defeated Buddy Landel for the Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Championship. August 15, 2004 - Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history. August 16, 1992 - The Great Muta defeated Riki Chōshū for the IWGP Heavyweight title. 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 WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, Jenny McCarthy appeared on the television program to promote funding for the prevention of autism in children. On August 3, World Wrestling Entertainment's official website announced that Ric Flair and the WWE would part ways. On the August 4 edition of Raw, Batista and John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to win the World Tag Team Championship; however, the following week DiBiase and Rhodes regained the titles. Braden Wlker was released from WWE on August 7. On August 8, WWE released Shannon Moore, Nick Patrick, James Curtis, Domino, Nunzio and Big Daddy V. On August 10, Randy Orton reinjured his shoulder in a motorcycle accident. Beer Money Inc (James Storm and Robert Roode) won the TNA World Tag Team Championship at Hard Justice, defeating the Latin American Xchange. WWE released Cherry, Colin Delaney, Stevie Richards, The Highlanders and referee Wes Adams on August 15. Collaboration of the Week The article collaboration for August 17 through August 29 is A.J. Styles. The featured article collaboration is Randy Orton. 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 August 30. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved! Articles for Deletion Current: National Wrestling Coalition and Yogeshwar Dutt. Kept: Rycklon Stephens and WWE Saturday Night's Main Event results. Redirected/Merged: Deleted: Bad Guys (professional wrestling), Beer Money (professsional wrestling), Between the Ropes, Finlay and Horsnwoggle, Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes. Redirects for Deletion: WWE World Tag Team chamiopship (kept). From the Editors My apologies for the late newsletter delivery. -- iMatthew T.C. Contributors to this Issue: D.M.N. (talk · contribs) IMatthew (talk · contribs) NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs) RkOrton (talk · contribs) SRX (talk · contribs) Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

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