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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXXII — December 21, 2008

Featured content news

Lockdown (2008) (review page) and Over the Edge (1999) (review page) are current Featured article candidates.
WrestleMania XXIV (review page) was not promoted as a Featured Article.
List of WWF Light Heavyweight Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
List of ECW Television Champions (review page) was promoted to Featured list status.
List of WWE Divas Champions and List of WWE Cruiserweight Champions (review page) have been nominated as an addition and withdrawal, respectively, to the Lists of World Wrestling Entertainment champions Featured topic.

Good content news

Masa Saito, Night of Champions (2008), No Mercy (2004), Royal Rumble (1993), Slammiversary (2008), and Survivor Series (1992) are current Good article nominees.
Hard Justice (2008) (review page), Hardy Boyz (review page), Lisa Moretti (review page), No Mercy (2007) (review page), No Surrender (2008) (review page), Taboo Tuesday (2004) (review page), Unforgiven (2008) (review page) and Velvet McIntyre (review page) were promoted to Good article status.
Vince's Devils (review page) was promoted to Good topic status.
Hardy Boyz (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.

Reviews and additional project information

Judgment Day (2008) (review page) is currently under Peer review. It has been requested that comments be added on the review page.
Shooter (professional wrestling) has been merged into Shoot (professional wrestling); the discussion can be found here.
Facts from Judgment Day (2003), Armageddon (2000), and Unforgiven (2002) were all listed on the Main Page in the Did You Know? column on December 12, and a fact from No Mercy (2002) was listed on December 13.

Editing tips

This is a new section in the newsletter to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

There is a new consensus to remove notes such as most reigns, first reign, last reign, etc. in the championships and accomplishments section. See here for more information.
Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
The television show RAW should now be written as Raw per WP:MOSCAPS.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
If a sentence seems like it may not be true or is partially controversial, remove it or add {{fact}} directly after it.

Professional wrestling article stats

There are currently 616 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. 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
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			3	6	9
	FL			12	11	23
	GA		6	33	71	110
	B	1	16	65	200	282
	C		2	15	98	115
	Start	2	54	227	1789	2072
	Stub		1	25	580	606
	List		3	23	601	627
	Future			2	13	15
	Assessed	3	82	405	3369	3859
	Total	3	82	405	3369	3859

Member updates

Based on the members list, there are currently 208 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of December:
  - 7 - TNA presents Final Resolution
  - 11 - Urena198's birthday
  - 14 - WWE presents Armageddon
  - 21 - Hanukkah begins at sundown
  - 23 - Paulley's birthday
  - 24 - Racer38's birthday
  - 25 - Christmas Day
  - 26 - Kwanzaa
  - 27 - SRX's birthday
  - 28 - FamicomJL's birthday
  - 31 - NickSparrow's birthday
  - 31 - WWEFAN99's birthday

Recent deletion debates

Articles for Deletion
- Deleted: Chris Glidden, Dave Flores and Zade McClurg.
- Redirected/Merged: Double chicken wing and List of World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reigns by length
Images for Deletion
- Deleted: Image:Candice Michelle Ring.jpg.

Recent wrestling news

At Final Resolution
- Eric Young defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir to win the TNA X Division Championship. The Management Director of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Jim Cornette, stripped Young of the title after the event concluded due to interference from referee Shane Sewell. Cornette immediately set up a tournament afterwards for the X Division Championship to begin on the December 11 episode of TNA Impact!.
- Suicide, played by Frankie Kazarian, a character from TNA Impact the video game, debuted after weeks of promotion.
On the December 8 episode of Raw, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) held the Slammy Awards for the first time in eleven years.
Gene Snitsky was released from his WWE contract on December 11.
John Morrison and The Miz defeated CM Punk and Kofi Kingston at a WWE live event on December 13 to win the World Tag Team Championship.
At Armageddon, Jeff Hardy defeated Edge and Triple H in a Triple threat match to win the WWE Championship, his first World Heavyweight Championship reign in WWE.

This fortnight in wrestling history

Contributors to this issue

Enjoy the final 2008 issue of the WP:PW newsletter and have a very happy holiday season, from WP:PW!

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