Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 029

Issue 029

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXIX — November 9, 2008

Recent Project News

Featured news:
- No Way Out (2004) (review page) was promoted to Featured article status.
- Featured list
  .

Good article news:
Taboo Tuesday, Unforgiven (2008), Velvet McIntyre, Vince's Devils, and WrestleMania XXIV are current Good article nominees
.

Good Article
status.
Other project news:
It has been propsed to merge
McMahon (documentary) into Vince McMahon, the discussion can be found here
.

This Fortnight in Wrestling History

October 27, 1991 - Brian Pillman defeated Richard Morton in a tournament final to become the inaugural WCW World Light Heavyweight Champion.

Lita to win the WWF Women's title
.

November 2, 1998 - Mankind was awarded the newly established WWF Hardcore Championship by WWF Chairman Vince McMahon.

November 5, 2001 - The Rock defeated Chris Jericho for the WCW World Heavyweight title.

Mike Lockwood
, known professionally as Crash Holly, committed suicide at the age of 32.

US$18 million to the Hart family as a settlement in the court case for Owen Hart's death at Over the Edge (1999)
.

November 9, 1997 - The Montreal Screwjob occurred, in which Shawn Michaels defeated Bret Hart to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 592. It still 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 3 5 8

FL 1 12 10 23

GA 6 27 60 93

B 1 16 65 207 289

C 1 14 96 111

Start 2 50 219 1759 2030

Stub 1 21 566 588

List 2 21 581 604

Future 3 14 17

Assessed 3 77 385 3298 3763

Total 3 77 385 3298 3763

Member Updates

Based on the members list, there are currently 197 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of November:
  - 9 - TNA presents Turning Point
  - 15 - Rakez's birthday
  - 15 - Ericystephi's birthday
  - 20 - Batmanrules677's birthday
  - 23 -
    WWE presents Survivor Series

Recent Wrestling News

Conrad Efraim

, better known as "Special Delivery Jones", died in Antigua on October 26, 2008, following a stroke he suffered two days prior.

At
Batista defeated Chris Jericho to win the World Heavyweight Championship
.

On the October 27 episode of Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes
.

TJ Wilson won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship
on October 30.

On the November 3 episode of Raw:
Mike Adamle resigned from his position as General Manager of the Raw brand.

Batista in a Steel cage match to win the World Heavyweight Championship
for the second time.

World Wrestling Entertainment
(WWE) on November 5.

On November 7, WWE released Raw wrestlers Paul London and Chuck Palumbo.

Collaboration

The
Good article status
.
Wrestling Legend: Kamala (wrestler)

Current wrestler: Samoa Joe

Tag team or stable: Dudley Boyz

Stub article: Gino Brito

Pay-per-view: WrestleMania 23

List: List of professional wrestling terms

Cast your vote to select the next collaborations — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Recent Deletion Debates

Articles for Deletion

Current: The Experience (professional wrestling), and Volador Jr.

Deleted: Dann Read and SPRY Wrestling.

Images for Deletion

Current: TNAlegendschampionship.jpg.

Miscalleneous for Deletion

Redirected: Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Article name changes

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