As of January 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			5	6	11
	FL			12	12	24
	GA		6	32	75	113
	B	1	18	66	197	282
	C		3	18	104	125
	Start	2	54	224	1827	2107
	Stub		2	22	562	586
	List		2	23	593	618
	Future			4	13	17
	Assessed	3	85	406	3386	3880
	Total	3	85	406	3386	3880

• The Featured article candidacy of Sacrifice (2008) (review page) was withdrawn by the nominator.
• WCW Hall of Fame (review page) and List of ECW Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Masa Saito, No Mercy (2004), Survivor Series (2007), Taboo Tuesday (2005), Terri Runnels, Vengeance (2006), Victory Road (2004), and World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Darren Matthews (review page) is currently under Peer review.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 210 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• 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.
• A search bar has been added to the archive box on the PW project talk page for easier navigation through the archives.
• Deletion Discussions

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

• 4 - New Japan Pro Wrestling presents Wrestle Kingdom III
• 11 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Genesis
• 16 - Ring of Honor presents Rising Above
• 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment presents Royal Rumble

• On the December 16, 2008 taping of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) Impact!, Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal cashed in Lethal's Feast or Fired World Tag Team Title opportunity and defeated Beer Money, Inc ( Robert Roode and James Storm) for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, which aired on January 8, 2009.
• World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) released Bam Neely, D-Lo Brown, Gavin Spears, Jim Korderas, Kevin Thorn, Matt Cappotelli, Mike Kruel, Mickie Henson, Ron Simmons, Sgt. Slaughter, Tim White, and Val Venis from their contracts on January 9 as part of a budget cut.
• TNA reported on January 10 that Christy Hemme had injured her neck, and that she would require surgery. She was scheduled to face Awesome Kong for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship at Genesis; this match was replaced by a Six-woman tag team match.
• At TNA Genesis on January 11:
  • Alex Shelly defeated Chris Sabin in a tournament final singles match to win the TNA X Division Championship
  • Beer Money, Inc. ( James Storm and Robert Roode) won the TNA World Tag Team Championship by defeating defending champions, Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal, and the team of Abyss and Matt Morgan in a tag team 3-Way Dance.
  • Mick Foley wrestled his first match in TNA; he teamed with Brother Devon and A.J. Styles to defeat Cute Kip and The Main Event Mafia ( Booker T and Scott Steiner) in a Six-man tag team hardcore match.
• On January 12:
  • WWE announced that "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's induction into the Hall of Fame would lead the Class of 2009.
  • Jack Swagger defeated Matt Hardy to win the ECW Championship, and his first title in WWE; this title change aired on January 13.
• Victoria announced her retirement from professional wrestling, after wrestling her final match in WWE on the January 13 episode of Friday Night SmackDown against Michelle McCool; this episode aired on January 16.
• On January 16, Hardcore Holly was released from his WWE contract.

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

1. Do not link the title of an article in its lead section if the title is already in bold, per WP:LEDE.
2. When expanding pay-per-view articles, avoid using wrestling jargon without an explanation, per WP:JARGON, maintain an out-of-universe perspective of the article, per WP:IN-U, and avoid writing in excess detail, per WP:PLOT. For further information see WP:PW/PPVG.
3. Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
4. When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
5. 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.

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