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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVI — May 4, 2008

Project News

Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., and Vengeance (2005) have been elevated to Good article status.
Acolytes Protection Agency, Backlash (2006), Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Judgment Day (2005), Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (2005), Stacy Keibler, and Survivor Series (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

Current Events

William Regal won the King of the Ring tournament on the April 21 edition of Raw.
Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain, made special appearance on Raw, via the titantron to address the Raw fans.
During Backlash, Triple H became the new WWE Champion by defeating Randy Orton.
Matt Hardy defeated MVP and became the new United States Champion.
The Undertaker had the World Heavyweight Championship taken from him on the May 2 episode of SmackDown!.

Articles for Deletion

Current: Giovanni picarazzi.
Kept:
Deleted: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler), Xterminator (wrestler), The Playa (wrestler), Kalahari Boerboel (wrestler), InterMat.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Since the last issue, the number of stub articles has decreased again. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	11	31	47
	B	1	12	51	199	265
	Start	2	51	220	2316	2593
	Stub		1	23	609	629
	Assessed	3	69	313	3175	3559
	Total	3	69	312	3173	3559

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 377 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
4 - S-pac54's birthday
8 - The Chronic's birthday
11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice
18 - WWE presents Judgment Day
18 - Self Preteder's birthday
19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for April 27 through May 11 is National Wrestling Alliance. The featured article collaboration is Amy Dumas. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, May 11.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Editor of the Week

Welcome to the Editor of the Week!
Our first editor of the week is Nikki311, who won with 6 votes.
The runner-up, LAX came in second with 3 votes.
Nikki311's award page can be found here. Congratulations Nikki!

From the Editors

Contributors to this Issue:

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Delivered: 14:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVII — May 18, 2008

Project News

Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Stacy Keibler, Randy Orton, and Acolytes Protection Agency have been elevated to Good article status.
Over the Edge (1999) failed its Good article nomination, but has been reassessed here.
Backlash (2006), Backlash (2007), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), Survivor Series (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

Current Events

Torrie Wilson was released by WWE on May 8.
L.A.X. won the vacated TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result of defeating Team 3D in the Deuces Wild tournament final at TNA Sacrifice.
- Also at TNA Sacrifice, Samoa Joe defeated Scott Steiner and Kaz to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
During WWE Backlash, Triple H, The Miz and John Morrison, and Mickie James retained the WWE Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship, and WWE Women's Championship, respectively.

Articles for Deletion

Current: Africa Wrestling Alliance, International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior.
Kept: TNA 2005 Super X Cup Tournament, TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament.
Redirected: Deuces Wild Tournament, Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol.2.
Deleted: Sean Creed, Giovanni picarazzi, Cf Turbo, Mother's Day Massacre (2008), Boerseun (wrestler), Nizaam Hartley, The Taxidriver (wrestler), Scorpion Kruger (wrestler), The Blacksmith (wrestler), RingDivas Womens Wrestling, Parrow Civic Centre, Nightmare (wrestler), Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa, Steve Eden (wrestler).

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	12	34	50
	B	1	13	55	203	272
	Start	2	52	220	2328	2604
	Stub		1	23	606	628
	Assessed	3	71	317	3189	3580
	Total	3	71	317	3189	3580

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 38 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday
19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaborations for May 11 through May 24 are Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and John Layfield. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, May 25.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Editor of the Week

Our second editor of the week is GaryColemanFan, who won with 4 votes.
The runner-up, D.M.N., came in second with 3 votes.
GaryColemanFan's award page and interview can be found here. Congratulations!
The interview portion of the award page was just recently added. To see Nikki311's interview, go to her award page here

From the Editors

Contributors to this Issue:

Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback

Delivered: 19:23, 19 May 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)