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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Hi, my name is Will. I see that you were one of the founding members of
WP:PW. Well I'm not sure how active you've been in keeping up with the changes the project has made, but if you would like to be updated, I'm up too it.--WillC 18:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply
]
I was speaking mainly on formats changes. The project pretty much is full of drama these days because of them.--WillC 02:30, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Re: Hey
I remember you. :) Nice to see you back around. I've made the move. Nikki♥311 03:11, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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
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Hey man, you seem a bit interested in the FWA articles and that so I thought I'd point you to this article which seems to suggest the new FWA World Championship is the same British Heavyweight Championship ("he FWA management team has taken the historic step of reclassifying the title as the FWA World Heavyweight Championship"). I figure we might as well wait until a new champ is crowned because I think it's gonna take a few shows but it's something to consider. Hopefully they'll soon put up a title history thing to make things clear but this could mean either making the XWA Belt article start with (I think) Joel Redman or maybe duplicating the FWA reigns on both pages? I'm not sure what's going on with the Flyweight Championship but I don't think it's a continued lineage from XWA's version because although the match for it features Spud, it is billed as a "qualifier" round robin tournament so surely the encumbent wouldn't neeed to qualify. Anyhow, just some thoughts. Tony2Times (talk) 18:52, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How're we gonna keep both histories on one page though? Unless XWA stops promoting their belt and starts a new one from scratch they're both gonna have different champions at different times. Hopefully the Flyweight will unify; it'll be easier on us at least. Tony2Times (talk) 21:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The thing with that is as the title continues to grow it's gonna look confusing. With WCW and TNA, when their titles broke away from the NWA Championship they started new articles. If FWA were gonna start a new lineage then I was fine with it being a new page but that article shows it's the same lineage so I think XWA's one should have its own page that details its previous lineage, just like TNA's does about NWA. Tony2Times (talk) 22:57, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah definitely best to wait to see what happens - XWA may be forced to create a new champion or they might be unified or FWA might maker late it clear that it's a new belt. I changed the current Flyweight name to be FWA 2005-07 and XWA 07-present because we don't know for sure what's gonna happen; maybe we should do the same with the Heavyweight title. I've put a note in the intro about it being uncertain what the belt's lineage for the Flyweight will be. Tony2Times (talk) 17:47, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh God it's so bad I just feel like deleting everything and starting again. I'm pretty bad with promotion articles though; I tried writing one for LDN but only got half way through. Finding sources for British wrestling is pretty hard but the amount of info in the FWA section is too much even if it was sourced I think. Tony2Times (talk) 17:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just knocking up a proper set of championships boxes but I was wondering if you knew of anywhere I could get sources for the defunct championships which I don't have any dates and such for. Tony2Times (talk) 16:06, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Incredible Hulk #600
Do you know what happened in The Incredible Hulk #600 and if so what? If the Red and Green Hulk fought each other who won or who was winning before Red Hulk cheated (if he did)? The K.O. King (talk) 01:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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.
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The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed
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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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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
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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.
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Hi. I've started a consensus discussion on the edit conflict on Red Hulk here. Can you offer your opinion on the four points there? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 15:21, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Request for your opinion
Hi. Can you join this discussion in order to offer us your thoughts? We need as many people as we can get in this, since the 4-6 participants from previous discussions on this matter was felt by some to be insufficient. It would be most appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 07:14, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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.
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Be aware of
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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.
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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.