Talk:History of World Championship Wrestling

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Shouldn't this article be merged with World Championship Wrestling? Lex^{94 Talk Contributions Guest Book} 20:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After reading through the article and comparing it closely to

• Criteria 1 (writing):
  • Lead section does NOT adequately summarize the article. See
    WP:LEAD
    . Basically, each section in the article needs some mention in the lead. Plus, the lead is self referential (the first sentance refers to the article itself in an awkward way) which should be rewritten to fix that. That is a minor problem, however, and of itself would have NOT caused a fail. The inadequacy of the lead in terms of summarizing the article is a much bigger problem, however.
  • The layout seems a bit lacking. The section titles don't really comply with the Manual of Style (some are too long, some are self-referential, and some seem hagiograpical-POV), and some sections seem a bit short. See
    WP:MOS
    for more information.
  • What's up with the slide-box on the notes section? The use of these in articles is deprecated.
• Criteria 2 (referencing): The following statements or sections lack for ANY inline citation, and without specific inline footnotes, it is impossible to adequately
  verify
  the claims that they make:
  • "Since it was all they now saw, people began to believe that JCP was the NWA. Although JCP and the NWA were still two separate entities, with Crockett as NWA President, they were very much on the same page. The NWA was effectively an on-paper organization funded by Crockett and allowed Crockett to use the NWA brand name for promoting." This analysis is unreferenced at all. Where does this analysis come from?
  • "To preserve the inexpensive network programming provided by professional wrestling, JCP was purchased outright by Turner on November 21, 1988. Originally incorporated by TBS as the Universal Wrestling Corporation, Turner promised the fans that WCW would be the athlete-oriented style of NWA. 1989 proved to be a turnaround year for WCW, with Ric Flair on top for most of the year as both World Champion and head booker. Flair helped bring in Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk, and his pay-per-view matches with were financially and critically successful. Young stars such as Sid Vicious, Sting, Scott Steiner, The Road Warriors, Brian Pillman, The Great Muta and Lex Luger were given major storylines and championship opportunities." Lots of info here, NO references. Where does this info come from?
  • "WCW later renegotiated the use of the NWA name as a co-promotional gimmick with New Japan Pro Wrestling and sued the WWF to stop showing Flair with the old NWA World Title belt on its programs, claiming a trademark on the physical design of the belt. The belt was returned to WCW by Flair when Jim Herd was let go and he received his deposit back plus interest. It was brought back as the revived NWA World Heavyweight Championship." unreferenced.
  • "The summertime saw the company's reputation take another hit due to a mishap at a live televised event. In 1993, Ric Flair returned to WCW from his WWF tenure, but was constrained by a no-compete clause from his WWF contract. In response, WCW gave him a talk show segment on its television shows called "A Flair for the Gold," in the mold of the old "Piper's Pit" segments from 1980s WWF programming starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. During a segment of the talk show on an August Clash of the Champions event building up the next month's Fall Brawl show, WCW decided to introduce a "mystery partner" for the babyfaces, a masked man known as The Shockmaster. The Shockmaster (previously known as "Typhoon" in the WWF) was supposed to crash through a fake wall and intimidate the heels. Instead, he tripped through the wall and fell on his face on live television, inadvertently rendering himself a joke character (despite winning some matches)." Unreferenced.
  • Aggressive competition with the WWF section has only one reference, and it is unclear if this one reference applies only to the last paragraph or to the whole section.
  • Dominance section has several paragraphs that are unreferenced.
  • Signs of a decline section has several parts that are unreferenced. Additionally, there is NO source for the data used to create the TV ratings graphic. Its a great graphic, and the article benefits from it, but we need to know whose ratings these are and where they come from specifically.

Otherwise, the article does appear stable, neutral (other than some of the section titles, see above), and uses images appropriately. However, the writing, organization, and referencing problems are so many that it does not appear that this article is close to GA status at this point. If the above problems can be fixed, please feel free to renominate this article. If you feel this review was handled inappropriately, please ask for remediation at