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• No Way Out (2004) failed its nomination 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.
• here, here and here
  .
• Dawn Marie Psaltis, Lisa Marie Varon, and Unforgiven (2004) have been elevated to Good article status.
• Good article candidates
  .
• iMatthew, and Nikki311 will answer questions relating to the project here
  .

• Based on the members list, there are currently 351 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 40 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:
  • Mar. 9 - TNA presents
    Destination X
  • Mar. 25 - Kelan's birthday
  • Mar. 26 - Govvy's birthday
  • Mar. 30 - WWE presents WrestleMania XXIV

Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has dropped by 45 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
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	131	345		4	531
C	9	49	269	1,652		97	2,076
Start	2	47	336	4,908		270	5,563
Stub			3	278	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	100	641		753
Template			1	1	804		806
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	9		11
Assessed	22	152	950	8,685	5,540	492	15,841
Unassessed		1		10	1	10	22
Total	22	153	950	8,695	5,541	502	15,863
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,448			Ω = 4.56

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• 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.
• Good article
  status.
• Good article candidates
  .
• iMatthew, and Nikki311 have answered questions relating to the project here
  .

• Based on the members list, there are currently 356 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:
  • Mar. 25 - Kelan's birthday
  • Mar. 26 - Govvy's birthday
  • Mar. 29 -
    NimiTize
    's birthday
  • Mar. 30 - WWE presents WrestleMania XXIV

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
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	131	345		4	531
C	9	49	269	1,652		97	2,076
Start	2	47	336	4,908		270	5,563
Stub			3	278	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	100	641		753
Template			1	1	804		806
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	9		11
Assessed	22	152	950	8,685	5,540	492	15,841
Unassessed		1		10	1	10	22
Total	22	153	950	8,695	5,541	502	15,863
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,448			Ω = 4.56

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• Featured Article
  status.
• Featured Article nomination. Its nom page can be found here
  .
• List of WCW Hardcore Champions has passed its Featured list nomination; its nomination can be found here.
• Backlash (2004) has been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Its peer review can be found here.
• Good article
  status.
• Good article candidates
  .

• Based on the members list, there are currently 363 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 39 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:
• 13 - TNA presents Lockdown
• 14 - ThinkBlue's birthday
• 20 - Adamaniac's and Killswitch Engage's birthdays
• 27 - WWE presents Backlash

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
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	27	45			73
GA		10	110	219			339
B	11	40	131	345		4	531
C	9	49	269	1,652		97	2,076
Start	2	47	336	4,908		270	5,563
Stub			3	278	1	61	343
List		1	59	1,125		60	1,245
Category				3	2,266		2,269
Disambig				1	21		22
File					1,683		1,683
Redirect		1	11	100	641		753
Template			1	1	804		806
NA					115		115
Draft		1		1	9		11
Assessed	22	152	950	8,685	5,540	492	15,841
Unassessed		1		10	1	10	22
Total	22	153	950	8,695	5,541	502	15,863
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 40,448			Ω = 4.56

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• Featured Article nomination; the discussion can be found here
  .
• Good article
  status.
• Good article candidates
  .

Events

• WWE has invited Democrats running for president, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to Raw to settle their differences in a wrestling match. The invitation video can be found here.
• On the April 21 edition of Raw, the King of the Ring tournament will return for one night only. The entire tournament will take place on Raw.
• Mick Foley made a appearance in the new film, Anamorph.

Articles for Deletion

• Current: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler).
• Kept: Juggernaut (wrestler), World Wrestling Professionals, List of TNA tournaments, Shaun Simpson
• Deleted:

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		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	6	5	12
	FL			1	13	14
	GA		4	9	30	43
	B	1	11	49	199	260
	Start	2	51	217	2300	2570
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	68	306	3151	3528
	Total	3	68	306	3152	3533

• Based on the members list, there are currently 374 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 41 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:
• Apr. 27 - WWE presents Backlash (2008)
• May 4 -
  S-pac54
  's birthday
• May 8 -
  The Chronic
  's birthday
• May 11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice

The

Next week we will start the Editor of the Week. This will take the place of the Member Interviews. The EOTW will be given their own interview instead. To be fair, this week we will post all of the interviews that were on the schedule. Click the link next to the user's name to see their interview:

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• Good article
  status.
• 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.
• MVP and became the new United States Champion
  .
• 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
		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

• 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

The

• 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!

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• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• Good article
  status.
• Good article nomination, but has been reassessed here
  .
• 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
    TNA World Heavyweight Championship
    .
• During WWE
  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
		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

• 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

The

• 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

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• Good Article
  status.

• Featured Article
  status.

• Good article candidates
  .

• Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here.

Current Events

• Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy
  .

• The
  chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008
  .

• At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H.

• Also, at One Night Stand,
  Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe
  forced to leave WWE.

The Month in Wrestling History

• May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge.
• The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title
  .
• Jeff Jarret
  .
• May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack.
• NWA World Heavyweight Championship
  .

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
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	15	39	58
	B	1	13	57	203	274
	Start	2	52	221	2331	2606
	Stub		1	23	600	624
	Assessed	3	71	323	3191	3588
	Total	3	71	323	3191	3588

• Based on the members list, there are currently 389 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:
  • 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
  • 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
  • 29 - CJMiller's birthday
  • 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
  • 8 - TNA presents
    Slammiversary

The

• Current:
• Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom.
• Redirected:
• Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10.

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• SummerSlam (1988) and SummerSlam (2007) have both failed their Featured Article Candidacy's, their review pages can be found here and here, respectively.

• Featured List
  status.

• Featured List
  .

• Good article candidates
  .

• Good article
  status.

• good article! The article's reassessment can be found here
  .

• A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the
  Wrestling event infobox
  , please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles.

• The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class.

The Month in Wrestling History

• June 1, 1998 - Junkyard Dog died at the age of forty-five in an automobile accident.
• June 2, 2003 - Freddie Blassie died at the age of eighty-five from natural causes.
• NWA World Heavyweight Championship
  .
• June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven.
• Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight title
  .
• June 19 2002 - AJ Styles became the first TNA X Division Champion.

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
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		5	17	42	64
	B	1	13	67	206	287
	C		1	7	36	44
	Start	2	53	211	2312	2578
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	74	333	3218	3628
	Total	3	74	333	3218	3628

• Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • 8 - TNA presents
    Slammiversary
  • 10 - Chandlerjoeyross's birthday
  • 10 - King Gemini's birthday
  • 11 - Wweisreal's birthday
  • 20 - Umdunno's birthday

• Wellness Policy
  .

• Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion."

• WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home.

The

• Current: Mark Beale.
• Kept: Triplemania, Antonio Peña.
• Redirected:
• Deleted: All Action Wrestling.

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• A fact from
  Did you know?
  column on July 11, 2008 and July 17, 2008, respectively.

• Featured Article review (link)
  .

• Featured List candidates

• Good article
  status.

• Good article candidates
  .

• Peer Review
  .

• Per this edit and the discussion
  here
  , date linking is not mandatory in articles. This mainly applies to the project's pay-per-view expanded articles. Please take this regulation in notice and apply it to the project's expanded pay-per view articles.

• New parameters have been added to the {{
  here

Current Events

• WWE
  on July 9.

• Awesome Kong
  .

This Month in Wrestling History

• Booker T defeated Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
  .
• July 11, 1961 - Gene Kiniski defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• ECW Heavyweight Championship
  .
• July 12, 1999 - Hulk Hogan defeated Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight title.
• July 16, 2001 - Terry Gordy died of a heart attack at age 40.
• July 17, 1988 - Bruiser Brody died in Puerto Rica after being stabbed, aged 42.

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
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	18	51	74
	B	1	14	66	203	284
	C		1	9	56	66
	Start	2	50	202	1734	1988
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	572	594
	Assessed	3	74	346	3234	3657
	Total	3	74	346	3234	3657

• Based on the members list, there are currently 401 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
• 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
• 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
• 19 - ProtoWolf's & 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

• The article collaboration for July 20 through August 2 is Chris Jericho. The Featured article collaboration is Torrie Wilson.

• 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 August 3.
  

• Current: Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and List of wrestling championships.
• Kept:
• Redirected/Merged: List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships.
• Deleted: Jack Korpela (2), Velocity Championship Wrestling (VCW), List of Ring of Honor events, Marc Loyd, Tna Wrestlers Payroll, TNA INCOME, TNA payroll, Beer Money Inc., The Badd guys, and Cyme Tyme Cenation.

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