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 New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 2, we are at 11.96%, with 505 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
The
style guide has been updated to reflect the new consensus on the formatting in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and the new format can be found at
WP:PW/SG#In wrestling. Please help out in converting all biographies to the new format.
Events Calendar
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of August.
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 New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and a list of topics that are close to
Good topic status is listed
here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to
Good Article status.
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.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
Be aware of the new format in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and apply the relevant section (
WP:PW/SG#In wrestling) to new articles that you create, or previously created articls that have not yet been updated after the change.
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 August 16, we are at 12.13%, with 519 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of August.
It was announced through various wrestling news sites that
Jeff Jarrett had sold his final shares of
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to the Carter family and would be returning to the promotion as a wrestler only.
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.
Refer to
WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines,
be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a
naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
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 August 16, we are at 12.09%, with 518 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of September.
On the August 20 episode of TNA Impact!, an eight-team tournament to crown the first
TNA Women's Knockout Tag Team Champions was announced. The tournament will commence on the August 27 episode of Impact!.
On August 27, WWE announced that, effective of September 2, they will be suspending
Rey Mysterio for a violation of the
Wellness Program.
Editing Tips
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 New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and a list of topics that are close to
Good topic status is listed
here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to
Good Article status.
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.
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a citation needed tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
Avoid
overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again.
Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
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 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of September.
Bryan Danielson won the
PWG World Championship by defeating
Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain
consensus from the project first.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to
WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines,
be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a
naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Avoid adding statements that will
date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
The Video games project has created a
member list to provide a clearer picture of its active membership.
All members have currently been placed in the "Inactive" section by default. Please remove your username from the "Inactive" listing and place it under the "Active" listing if you plan on regularly:
Ideally, members are encouraged to do both, but either one meets our criteria of inclusion. Members still listed inactive at the beginning of November 2009 may be removed. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.
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 September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of October.
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.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
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 October 21, we are at 11.96%, with 524 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
On October 2, the project reached its goal of 150
DYKs, and the number has continued to rise. Congratulations to everyone who helped in achieving this goal.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of October.
The Perros del Mal promotion announced a television deal with Televisa Canal 9.
On the September 29 episode of ECW,
William Regal was announced as the
interim general manager, as
Tiffany had been injured in a kayfabe car crash. This storyline was put in place as Tiffany suffered a broken
humerus at the
Florida Championship Wrestling television tapings on September 24, but she was able to return to television on the October 6 episode of ECW.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and a list of topics that are close to
Good topic status is listed
here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to
Good Article status.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
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 October 25, we are at 11.79%, with 520 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of October and November.
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.
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".
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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of November.
Hulk Hogan held a press conference to announce that he has signed with TNA. It was later revealed that
Eric Bischoff has also signed, and he and Hogan will be the new
bookers.
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 November 8, we are at 11.76%, with 521 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Help out with the project's
cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
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.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
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 November 22, we are at 11.68%, with 558 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 months of November and December.
WWE's official website announced the retirement of
Jamie Noble on November 10.
On November 11, it was announced that TNA had released
Sojournor Bolt from her contract.
On November 12,
BBC News reported that
Welsh wrestler Orig Williams, better known as El Bandito, died at the age of 78.
Paul London won the NorthEast Wrestling Championship on November 13 by defeating Jason Blade.
Dragon Gate announced that they had released
Cyber Kong from his contract. Kong suffered a neck injury in late October, and did not feel he was healing well enough to return to wrestling, and so requested his release.
Sky Sports announced that it would begin to broadcast Superstars in Britain on December 11. It will also start broadcasting This Week in WWE, which will first air on January 3.
On November 20, it was reported that WWE had re-signed
Mikey Batts to work as a
referee.
It was reported on November 21 that TNA had signed British wrestler, "Sweet" Saraya Knight to a contract.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 announcerLauren C. Mayhew had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
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.
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.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
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.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
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.
Avoid adding statements that will
date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and we only have short amount of time left to achieve them this year. Please consider helping out by achieving an aim listed.
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.
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.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
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.
Contributors to this Issue
From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!
Members listed in the "Unknown" section will be removed from the membership list and category at the end of January 2010. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.
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.
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 New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 2, we are at 11.96%, with 505 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
The
style guide has been updated to reflect the new consensus on the formatting in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and the new format can be found at
WP:PW/SG#In wrestling. Please help out in converting all biographies to the new format.
Events Calendar
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of August.
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 New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and a list of topics that are close to
Good topic status is listed
here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to
Good Article status.
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.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
Be aware of the new format in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and apply the relevant section (
WP:PW/SG#In wrestling) to new articles that you create, or previously created articls that have not yet been updated after the change.
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 August 16, we are at 12.13%, with 519 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of August.
It was announced through various wrestling news sites that
Jeff Jarrett had sold his final shares of
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to the Carter family and would be returning to the promotion as a wrestler only.
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.
Refer to
WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines,
be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a
naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
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 August 16, we are at 12.09%, with 518 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of September.
On the August 20 episode of TNA Impact!, an eight-team tournament to crown the first
TNA Women's Knockout Tag Team Champions was announced. The tournament will commence on the August 27 episode of Impact!.
On August 27, WWE announced that, effective of September 2, they will be suspending
Rey Mysterio for a violation of the
Wellness Program.
Editing Tips
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 New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and a list of topics that are close to
Good topic status is listed
here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to
Good Article status.
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.
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a citation needed tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
Avoid
overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again.
Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
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 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of September.
Bryan Danielson won the
PWG World Championship by defeating
Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain
consensus from the project first.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to
WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines,
be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a
naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Avoid adding statements that will
date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
The Video games project has created a
member list to provide a clearer picture of its active membership.
All members have currently been placed in the "Inactive" section by default. Please remove your username from the "Inactive" listing and place it under the "Active" listing if you plan on regularly:
Ideally, members are encouraged to do both, but either one meets our criteria of inclusion. Members still listed inactive at the beginning of November 2009 may be removed. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.
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 September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of October.
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.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
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 October 21, we are at 11.96%, with 524 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
On October 2, the project reached its goal of 150
DYKs, and the number has continued to rise. Congratulations to everyone who helped in achieving this goal.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of October.
The Perros del Mal promotion announced a television deal with Televisa Canal 9.
On the September 29 episode of ECW,
William Regal was announced as the
interim general manager, as
Tiffany had been injured in a kayfabe car crash. This storyline was put in place as Tiffany suffered a broken
humerus at the
Florida Championship Wrestling television tapings on September 24, but she was able to return to television on the October 6 episode of ECW.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and a list of topics that are close to
Good topic status is listed
here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to
Good Article status.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
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 October 25, we are at 11.79%, with 520 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of October and November.
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.
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".
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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of November.
Hulk Hogan held a press conference to announce that he has signed with TNA. It was later revealed that
Eric Bischoff has also signed, and he and Hogan will be the new
bookers.
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 November 8, we are at 11.76%, with 521 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 has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Help out with the project's
cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
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.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
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 November 22, we are at 11.68%, with 558 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 months of November and December.
WWE's official website announced the retirement of
Jamie Noble on November 10.
On November 11, it was announced that TNA had released
Sojournor Bolt from her contract.
On November 12,
BBC News reported that
Welsh wrestler Orig Williams, better known as El Bandito, died at the age of 78.
Paul London won the NorthEast Wrestling Championship on November 13 by defeating Jason Blade.
Dragon Gate announced that they had released
Cyber Kong from his contract. Kong suffered a neck injury in late October, and did not feel he was healing well enough to return to wrestling, and so requested his release.
Sky Sports announced that it would begin to broadcast Superstars in Britain on December 11. It will also start broadcasting This Week in WWE, which will first air on January 3.
On November 20, it was reported that WWE had re-signed
Mikey Batts to work as a
referee.
It was reported on November 21 that TNA had signed British wrestler, "Sweet" Saraya Knight to a contract.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 announcerLauren C. Mayhew had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
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.
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.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
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.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
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.
Avoid adding statements that will
date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
here, and we only have short amount of time left to achieve them this year. Please consider helping out by achieving an aim listed.
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.
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.
The
lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
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.
Contributors to this Issue
From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!
Members listed in the "Unknown" section will be removed from the membership list and category at the end of January 2010. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.
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.