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promotions for the month of January.
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.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
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The project's
2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
Avoid adding statements that will
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Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to
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Do not give undue weight to
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As part of
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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
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This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
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promotions for the month of January.
On January 8,
Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
On January 9:
It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a
developmental contract.
It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
On January 10:
It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
Former wrestler
Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in
Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.
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On January 22, it was reported that
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Rob Terry defeated
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John Cena won an Elimination Chamber match to win the
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Batista for the championship.
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Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
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.
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.
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.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's
2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
Avoid adding statements that will
date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
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.
Do not give undue weight to
recent events in articles.
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 17, we are at 10.06%, with 466 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.
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.
On January 8,
Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
On January 9:
It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a
developmental contract.
It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
On January 10:
It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
Former wrestler
Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in
Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.
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As part of
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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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's
2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
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.
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.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Searches find no significant coverage. All the hits are minor mentions (usually in the form of "xyz and Scott Hudson were the announcers..."). As sources cannot be found, there is no indication of notability.
I have nominated
Scott Hudson (announcer), an article that you created, for
deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Hudson (announcer). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
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 28, we have dipped below 10% for the first time at 9.93%, with 469 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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of March.
John Cena won an Elimination Chamber match to win the
WWE Championship. Immediately after the match, however, he was defeated by
Batista for the championship.
This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please consider helping out with the project's
2010 New Year's Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
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.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.