As of December 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			24	31		55
	GA		10	60	102		172
	B	6	20	85	243		354
	C	1	8	61	278		348
	Start	7	48	291	2113		2459
	Stub			17	584	1	602
	List		3	29	644	1	677
	Future			4	9		13
	Assessed	14	91	576	4008	2	4691
	Unassessed					68	68
	Total	14	91	576	4008	70	4759

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• List of WCW World Television Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Copeland, Bobby Kay, Jason Reso, Leo Burke, and Rudy Kay are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared in the Did you know? column on the main page:
  • November 24: Professional wrestling career of Insane Clown Posse
  • November 29: List of WCW World Television Champions
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: Brian Fury
    • Deleted: Jeri-Show, John Catheline, and Sean Midnight

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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 10%. As of December 6, we are at 12.63%, with 601 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 month of December.

• 11 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Guerra de Titanes
• 13 - WWE presents TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs
• 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Final Resolution

• At Survivor Series, referee Scott Armstrong suffered a legitimate concussion after he was accidentally kneed in the back of the head by Sheamus.
• On November 24, it was reported that British wrestler "Sweet" Saraya Knight had not signed a contract with TNA, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
• On November 25, it was reported that ring announcer Lauren C. Mayhew had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
• On November 26, Tetsuya Bushi defeated Avisman to win the IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship.
• On November 27, 2009, it was reported that wrestler "Sexy" Lexi Pillman (Alexa Pillman), Brian Pillman's step-daughter, had died due to injuries sustained in a car accident earlier that day.
• BxB Hulk became the inaugual Dragon Gate USA Open the Freedom Gate Champion by defeating Yamato, Cima, and Gran Akuma in the tournament final on November 28.
• On November 30, British Sky Broadcasting announced they had signed a new five year contract with WWE.
• On December 1, WWE and Titan Publishing announced the creation of a comic book, WWE Heroes, with the first issue set to be released in March 2010.
• Eddie Fatu, better known as Umaga, died on December 4 due to a heart attack. He had been rushed to the hospital earlier that day in a critical condition after his wife found him unresponsive with blood running from his nose.
• On December 5, TNA announced that they would be holding a live, three-hour special Monday edition of TNA Impact! on Janauary 4, 2009 to compete against WWE Raw.

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

1. 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.
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. 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.
4. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
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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!

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