Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 019

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XIV — June 22, 2008

Project News

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

List of WWE SmackDown video game titles (link) has been nominated for Featured List status.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (link) has been nominated for removal as a Featured List.

Paul London, SummerSlam (2004), Survivor Series (1994), and WWE SmackDown (video game series) are currently Good article candidates.

Backlash (2007) (link), Unforgiven (2006) (link), The Rock (entertainer) (link), One Night Stand (2007) (link), The Great American Bash (2007) (link) and Royal Rumble (2005) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Over the Edge (1999) has passed its reassessment and is now a 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.
June 10, 1983 - Harley Race defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven.
June 13, 1993 - 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
Professional wrestling articles		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

Member News

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

Current Events

James Yun was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's 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.

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for June 22 through July 5 is James Yun. The Featured article collaboration is Candice Michelle . 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 Sunday, July 5.

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

Articles for Deletion

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

From the Editors

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