Project News
- No Way Out (2004) has been renominated for Featured Article status; its nomination can be found here.
- List of WCW Hardcore Champions has been nominated for Featured list status; its nomination can be found here.
- SummerSlam (2000) has been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. It's peer reviews can be found here.
- Ricky Banderas and SummerSlam (1994) have been elevated to Good article status.
- Ion Croitoru, Jos LeDuc, New Year's Revolution (2007), SummerSlam (2007), No Way Out (2007), Unforgiven (2005), WrestleMania X, Jeff Hardy, and Matt Hardy are currently Good article candidates.
- WikiProject Professional wrestling was the Featured Wikiproject in last week's edition of the Signpost. TJ Spyke, iMatthew, and Nikki311 have answered questions relating to the project here.
Current Events
- Jeff Hardy was suspended by WWE for 60 days on March 11 for violating WWE's Substance Abuse and Drug Policy. On March 14, he lost his home in, Cameron, North Carolina, late friday night due to a fire. Fire Department officials currently cannot confirm what was the cause of the fire. Reports also say that Jeff's brother, Matt Hardy, saw smoke coming out of Jeff's house. RAW Commentator, Jim Ross, reports on his blog, "He lost essentially every thing he had and most sadly his dog".
- On March 14, Vince McMahon was honored into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Triple H: King of Kings-There is Only One, a WWE Home Video DVD, will be released on March 25 2008.
Articles for Deletion
Collaboration of the Week
The article collaboration for March 16 through March 30 is Big Show. The featured article collaboration is Kurt Angle. 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, March 30.
Member Interview
This week's interviewees are FamicomJL (link) and Naha (link).
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Member News
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).
Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
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Quality
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Importance
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Top
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High
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Mid
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Low
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NA
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???
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Total
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FA
|
|
2
|
3
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7
|
|
|
12
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FL
|
|
1
|
26
|
45
|
|
|
72
|
GA
|
|
10
|
110
|
217
|
|
1
|
338
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B
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11
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41
|
138
|
348
|
|
4
|
542
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C
|
9
|
50
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301
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1,755
|
|
64
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2,179
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Start
|
2
|
47
|
340
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5,178
|
|
165
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5,732
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Stub
|
|
|
2
|
283
|
1
|
38
|
324
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List
|
|
1
|
65
|
1,178
|
|
42
|
1,286
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Category
|
|
|
3
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16
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2,288
|
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2,307
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Disambig
|
|
|
|
1
|
21
|
|
22
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File
|
|
|
|
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1,681
|
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1,681
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Redirect
|
|
1
|
11
|
105
|
645
|
|
762
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Template
|
|
2
|
7
|
106
|
806
|
|
921
|
NA
|
|
|
|
2
|
115
|
|
117
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Draft
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|
|
|
1
|
13
|
|
14
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Assessed
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22
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155
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1,006
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9,242
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5,570
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314
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16,309
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Unassessed
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
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2
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Total
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22
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155
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1,006
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9,242
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5,570
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316
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16,311
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WikiWork factors (?)
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ω = 41,622
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Ω = 4.56
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From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
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