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Over the past month, WP:PW hosted the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. In one month, the number of stub-class articles was reduced from 562 (13.84% of the project's total articles) to 477 (11.64%). More work expanding stubs is always appreciated. See here for more information.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
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and general editing tips.
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Please familiarize yourself with the general
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Please avoid adding rumors to articles. Most rumors cannot be sourced with a
As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of May 10, we are at 11.64%, with 483 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source an improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 7, we are at 11.76%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 21, we are at 11.73%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
The WP:PW cleanup listing was updated for the first time in three months. Please help out with fixing any of the problems listed, and removing them from the list.
There is an on-going discussion
here
regarding the "In wrestling" section of biographies, and what should and should not be included. All opinions are welcome.
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Referee Ted Tanabe died at the age of 46, after suffering a heart attack in the ring the previous night while officiating a match at a live event for Osaka Pro Wrestling.
Hey, get on yahoo IM. We need to talk.--WillC 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
If you have time, get on Yahoo IM. We have to talk once more.--WillC 04:37, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I need to talk to you on IM?--WillC 01:57, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Simple, I got pissed off at Matt and I said fuck you after he told me I should leave wikipedia because it would be better without me. I've been blocked twice in one year and 8 months. The first was due to a move war which many agree I was wrongly blocked. The user was moving Matt Sydal to his real name without discussion. Me and two other users were moving it back. I got blocked after moving it twice. No warning, nothing. I didn't know I did anything wrong. This was a year ago. The other recent block was due to disagreements between myself and another user who was removing content and refused to discuss. He gets blocked alot. I got tired of the war never ending when I was trying to have the X Title at FAC (where the war happened) so I asked for both of us to be blocked since we both were in the wrong. This happened two months ago. Nothing big on my end.--WillC 07:40, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.97%, with 499 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
WWE Friday Night SmackDown; the discussion can be found here
.
—Project
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.72%, with 492 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Brian Lawler was jailed for 30 days after failing to attend an in-patient treatment center as part of his plea agreement, following his arrest for public intoxication
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a {{fact}} tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
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If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 2, we are at 11.96%, with 505 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Mick Foley won the TNA Legends Championship from Kevin Nash.
New Japan Pro Wrestling
will recognize this title change.
Editing Tips
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The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
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If you come across an article that fails
WP:AFD
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The
lead
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Please avoid adding rumors to articles. Most rumors cannot be sourced with a
Biographies of living persons
policy.
Be aware of the new format in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and apply the relevant section (
WP:PW/SG#In wrestling
) to new articles that you create, or previously created articls that have not yet been updated after the change.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.13%, with 519 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
It was announced through various wrestling news sites that Jeff Jarrett had sold his final shares of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to the Carter family and would be returning to the promotion as a wrestler only.
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Refer to
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Trivia sections
are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.09%, with 518 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
On August 27, WWE announced that, effective of September 2, they will be suspending
Wellness Program
.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
Good Article
status.
If you come across an article that fails
WP:AFD
.
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a [citation needed] tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
Avoid
overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Bryan Danielson won the PWG World Championship by defeating Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Be aware of
words to avoid
. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of October 21, we are at 11.96%, with 524 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
On October 2, the project reached its goal of 150
DYKs
, and the number has continued to rise. Congratulations to everyone who helped in achieving this goal.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of October 25, we are at 11.79%, with 520 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Trivia sections
are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
Avoid adding statements that will
date
quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
When adding
headers
to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of November 8, we are at 11.76%, with 521 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of November 22, we are at 11.68%, with 558 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
WWE's official website announced the retirement of Jamie Noble on November 10.
On November 11, it was announced that TNA had released
Sojournor Bolt
from her contract.
On November 12, BBC News reported that Welsh wrestler Orig Williams, better known as El Bandito, died at the age of 78.
Paul London won the NorthEast Wrestling Championship on November 13 by defeating Jason Blade.
Dragon Gate announced that they had released Cyber Kong from his contract. Kong suffered a neck injury in late October, and did not feel he was healing well enough to return to wrestling, and so requested his release.
This Week in WWE
, which will first air on January 3.
On November 20, it was reported that WWE had re-signed Mikey Batts to work as a referee.
It was reported on November 21 that TNA had signed British wrestler, "Sweet" Saraya Knight to a contract.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Please remember that
fair use
images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Do not give undue weight to
recent events
in articles.
Adhere strictly to the
Biographies of living persons
policy when adding to information to biography articles.
Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a
verifiable
.
Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of December 6, we are at 12.63%, with 601 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
On November 24, it was reported that British wrestler "Sweet" Saraya Knight had not signed a contract with TNA, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
On November 25, it was reported that
Lauren C. Mayhew
had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
On November 27, 2009, it was reported that wrestler "Sexy" Lexi Pillman (Alexa Pillman), Brian Pillman's step-daughter, had died due to injuries sustained in a car accident earlier that day.
announced they had signed a new five year contract with WWE.
On December 1, WWE and
Titan Publishing announced the creation of a comic book
, WWE Heroes, with the first issue set to be released in March 2010.
Eddie Fatu, better known as Umaga, died on December 4 due to a heart attack
. He had been rushed to the hospital earlier that day in a critical condition after his wife found him unresponsive with blood running from his nose.
On December 5, TNA announced that they would be holding a live, three-hour special Monday edition of TNA Impact! on Janauary 4, 2009 to compete against WWE Raw.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
If you come across an article that fails
WP:AFD
.
Trivia sections
are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
When adding
headers
to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
Avoid adding statements that will
date
quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and we only have short amount of time left to achieve them this year. Please consider helping out by achieving an aim listed.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of December 20, we are at 11.29%, with 531 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
, so do not add speculation about future events to articles.
The
lead section
of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Be aware of
words to avoid
. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
Please remember that
fair use
images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Contributors to this Issue
From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!
As part of the project's 2009 New Year's Resolutions, there was an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of January 2, we are at 10.14%, with 476 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
Sheik Abdul Bashir won one of the Feast or Fired briefcases, which was revealed to have the pinkslip in it. This storyline was put in place so Bashir could legitimately leave TNA.
Roxxi broke her ankle in two places at the Impact!
taping on December 21.
On December 22, TNA announced they had signed a deal with Setanta Sports Africa to air Impact! and pay-per-views in several African countries.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 17, we are at 10.06%, with 466 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
On January 8, Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
On January 9:
It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a developmental contract.
It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
On January 10:
It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
Former wrestler Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.