As of December 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		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

—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.

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

• 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.

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

1. Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
2. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so do not add speculation about future events to articles.
3. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
4. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
5. 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.

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

• GaryColemanFan ( talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart ( talk · contribs)
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As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	102		174
	B	6	20	82	244		352
	C	1	8	64	291		364
	Start	7	51	289	2214		2561
	Stub			15	462		477
	List		3	30	647	1	681
	Future			3	8		11
	Assessed	14	95	574	4003	1	4687
	Unassessed					5	5
	Total	14	95	574	4003	6	4692

—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.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? column:
  • December 23: Derick Neikirk
  • December 27: Rafael Halperin
  • December 28: Final Battle 2009
  • December 31: Franky The Mobster and Learning the Ropes
  • January 2: Jigsaw (wrestler)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Deleted: American Angels- Baptism of Blood, List of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, Michigan Championship Wrestling Association(MCWA), Spencer Khrone, UPWA Pro Wrestling, and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 (2nd nomination).
    • Kept: Aaron Proctor and List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts.
  • Templates for discussion
    • Deleted: Template:Slammy Award Winners

—Project

• As part of the project's 2009 New Year's Resolutions, there was an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of January 2, we are at 10.14%, with 476 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.
• GaryColemanFan ( talk · contribs) recapped the prgress of the project this year and since it's creation at WT:PW#2009 WP:PW progress.
• A new set of New Year's Resolutions for 2010 have been announced at Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Resolutions 2010.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 234 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

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.

• 17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
• 22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
• 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

• On December 20:
  • It was reported that Ricky Steamboat, Jr. had signed a developmental contract with WWE.
  • Former wrestler Colt Steel (real name C.J. Jackson) died at the age of 53. The cause of death is currently unknown.
  • At Final Resolution:
    • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB.
    • Sheik Abdul Bashir won one of the Feast or Fired briefcases, which was revealed to have the pinkslip in it. This storyline was put in place so Bashir could legitimately leave TNA.
• Roxxi broke her ankle in two places at the Impact! taping on December 21.
• On December 22, TNA announced they had signed a deal with Setanta Sports Africa to air Impact! and pay-per-views in several African countries.
• The Mexican National Trios Championship was vacated in late December, due to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre announcing Black Warrior's retirement. A tournament has been set up to crown new champions.
• It was reported that Incognito had signed a WWE contract.
• On December 25, World Xtreme Wrestling announced that Jimmy Snuka's daughter, Sarona, had signed a contract with WWE.
• Dixie Carter announced that TNA had signed The Young Bucks to a contract on December 26.
• On December 27, Cima and Gamma defeated Shingo Takagi and Yamato to win the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship, but vacated the championship immediately afterwards.
• Melina suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament at a house show on December 29.
• On December 30, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams died at the age of 49 due to cancer.

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

1. The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
2. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
3. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
4. 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 WP:PW/SG#Sources.
5. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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