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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXII — August 3, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates.
- Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status.
- SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination.

Other project news
- Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here.

This Month in Wrestling History

July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship.
June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71.
July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion.
July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship.
August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. 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	6	15	22
	GA		5	20	56	81
	B	1	15	67	203	286
	C		1	10	60	71
	Start	2	49	203	1735	1989
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	351	3246	3674
	Total	3	74	351	3246	3674

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of July:
  - 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
  - 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
  - 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
  - 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday
  - 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
  - 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
  - 27 - Sundogs' birthday
  - 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
  - 31 - Normy's birthday
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXIII — August 17, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate.
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link). has been elevated to Featured List status.
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks, Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992) and The Great American Bash (2005) are currently Good article candidates.
- Sarah Stock (link) has been elevated to good article status.

Other project news
- Matt Sydal (link) is currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from SummerSlam (1992)‎, Armageddon (2003), and Bad Blood (2003) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 9, 11, and 14 respectively.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status.
- The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined.

This Month in Wrestling History

August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight championship.
August 4, 1997 - Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight title.
August 7, 2002 - Ron Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
August 8, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated Fritz Von Erich for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
August 9, 1999 - Jackie Sato died of stomach cancer at age 41.
August 12, 1995 - Brad Armstrong defeated Buddy Landel for the Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Championship.
August 15, 2004 - Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history.
August 16, 1992 - The Great Muta defeated Riki Chōshū for the IWGP Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. 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	7	15	23
	GA		5	20	57	82
	B	1	15	68	203	287
	C		1	10	63	74
	Start	2	49	203	1751	2005
	Stub		1	23	595	619
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	353	3260	3690
	Total	3	74	353	3260	3690

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 414 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday