As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	45			72
GA		10	108	219		1	338
B	11	40	135	348		4	538
C	9	50	284	1,732		71	2,146
Start	2	46	335	5,054		226	5,663
Stub			2	275		59	336
List		1	60	1,141		59	1,261
Category				3	2,276		2,279
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,682		1,682
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	804		806
NA				1	115		116
Draft				2	11		13
Assessed	22	151	965	8,930	5,550	420	16,038
Unassessed		1		9	1	20	31
Total	22	152	965	8,939	5,551	440	16,069
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 41,205			Ω = 4.56

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• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Nemeth, ROH World Television Championship, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay is undergoing a Good article reassessment here.
• Rated-RKO (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? section of the main page:
  • January 19: Metro (wrestler)
  • January 21: Eric Holmback
  • January 24: Dr. Wagner and Ángel Blanco
  • January 28: Ida Mae Martinez
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
    • Deleted: The Straight Edge Society

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• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 235 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 January and February.

• January:
  • 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble
• February:
  • 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
  • 21 - WWE presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 17:
  • WWE announced the release of Eric Escobar from his contract.
  • At TNA's Genesis pay-per-view event on January 17:
    • TNA discontinued their six-sided wrestling ring and reintroduced their four-sided ring.
    • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB in a two out of three falls match.
    • Matt Morgan and Hernandez defeated The British Invasion ( Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
    • Brian Kendrick and Mr. Anderson made their return and debut, respectively, to TNA.
• Ida Mae Martinez died on January 19 at the age of 78.
• On January 20:
  • Ring of Honor announced the creation of the ROH World Television Championship. A tournament will be held to determine the inaugural champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on February 5 and 6.
  • The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
• On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
• On January 23:
  • Da Heavy Hitters ( Monsta Mack and Havok) won the JAPW Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
  • Davey Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki at the DGUSA Fearless pay-per-view taping.
• On January 27:
  • Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
  • It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
  • On January 28, Doug Williams defeated Amazing Red to win the TNA X Division Championship.

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. 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.
3. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.

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As of February 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	45			72
GA		10	108	219		1	338
B	11	40	135	348		4	538
C	9	50	284	1,732		71	2,146
Start	2	46	335	5,054		226	5,663
Stub			2	275		59	336
List		1	60	1,141		59	1,261
Category				3	2,276		2,279
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,682		1,682
Redirect		1	11	101	641		754
Template			1	1	804		806
NA				1	115		116
Draft				2	11		13
Assessed	22	151	965	8,930	5,550	420	16,038
Unassessed		1		9	1	20	31
Total	22	152	965	8,939	5,551	440	16,069
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 41,205			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, Nick Nemeth, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) was not promoted to Good article status after a Good article reassessment, and was renominated as a Good article nominee. It has since passed.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • January 31: Mascarita Dorada
  • February 5: OVW Heavyweight Championship
  • February 8: ROH World Television Championship
  • February 13: Frankie Arion
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: WWE NXT
    • Deleted: AWS Heavyweight Championship, Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts
• Requested moves:
  • Moved:
    • Demonio Azul to Blue Demon (discussion)
    • Demonio Azul, Jr. to Blue Demon, Jr. (discussion)

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• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of February 14, we are at 10.07%, with 472 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 236 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 February.

• 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
• 21 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 31:
  • Tim Donst defeated Player Dos to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup.
  • At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 31:
    • Mickie James won the WWE Women's Championship by defeating Michelle McCool.
    • Edge made his return after injury to win the Royal Rumble match.
    • Beth Phoenix became only the second woman in history to enter the Royal Rumble match.
• Jack Brisco died on February 1 at the age of 68.
• On the February 2 episode of ECW, Vince McMahon announced that ECW will be coming to an end. It will be replaced with a program called WWE NXT, which will debut on March 2.
• In early february it was announced that Canadian indepedent promotions Border City Wrestling and BSE Pro have merged to form Maximum Pro Wrestling.
• Independent wrestler Human Tornado announced his retirement on February 4.
• On the February 8 episode of Raw, The Miz and The Big Show won the WWE Unified Tag Team Championship by defeating the reigning champions D-Generation X and CM Punk and Luke Gallows in a triple threat match.
• Retired Canadian professional wrestler Charles Baillargeon died on February 10 following a stroke at the age of 92.
• On February 11, ROH announced that their television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling, would begin airing on Dahlia TV in Italy.
• Tyler Black won the ROH World Championship for the first time at ROH's 8th Anniversary Show on February 13 by defeating Austin Aries.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to when adding to information to biography articles.

• Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
• Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a non-point of view perspective.

1. 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.
2. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
3. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
4. When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.

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