Knowledge (XXG)

As of November 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3		11
	FL			24	30		54
	GA		10	60	98		168
	B	6	20	84	246		356
	C	1	8	59	275		343
	Start	7	48	293	2043		2391
	Stub			17	531		548
	List		3	29	642	1	675
	Future			4	10		14
	Assessed	14	90	577	3878	1	4560
	Unassessed				1	218	219
	Total	14	90	574	3879	219	4779

—Articles

• Well Dunn (review page) was not promoted to Featured article status.
• List of WCW World Television Champions (review page) and Mexican National Welterweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Copeland, Bobby Kay, Jason Reso, Leo Burke, Matt Anoa'i, Rudy Kay, Turning Point (2008), and Yvon Cormier are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared in the Did you know? column on the main page:
  • November 13: Joe Pedicino and Boni Blackstone
  • November 18: Sam DeCero
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: Jeri-Show, John Catheline, and Sean Midnight.
    • Deleted: Batista and Rey Mysterio (2nd nomination) and List of multiple world heavyweight champions in professional wrestling (2nd nomination).
  • Files for deletion
    • Kept: File:ECWchampbelt.jpg
• Requested moves
  • Moved: WWE One Night Stand to WWE Extreme Rules (discussion)

—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 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 233 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of November and December.

• 22 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Survivor Series
• 4 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents Sin Salida
• 11 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Guerra de Titanes
• 13 - WWE presents TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs
• 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Final Resolution

• On November 8, Tiger Mask IV defeated Místico to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
• 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.
• Sky Sports announced that it would begin to broadcast Superstars in Britain on December 11. It will also start broadcasting 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.

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

1. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
2. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
3. 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.
4. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
5. 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 reliable source and is verifiable.
• Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a non-point of view perspective.

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As of December 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			24	31		55
	GA		10	60	102		172
	B	6	20	85	243		354
	C	1	8	61	278		348
	Start	7	48	291	2113		2459
	Stub			17	584	1	602
	List		3	29	644	1	677
	Future			4	9		13
	Assessed	14	91	576	4008	2	4691
	Unassessed					68	68
	Total	14	91	576	4008	70	4759

—Articles

• List of WCW World Television Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Copeland, Bobby Kay, Jason Reso, Leo Burke, and Rudy Kay are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared in the Did you know? column on the main page:
  • November 24: Professional wrestling career of Insane Clown Posse
  • November 29: List of WCW World Television Champions
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: Brian Fury
    • Deleted: Jeri-Show, John Catheline, and Sean Midnight

—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 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 233 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of December.

• 11 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Guerra de Titanes
• 13 - WWE presents TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs
• 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Final Resolution

• At Survivor Series, referee Scott Armstrong suffered a legitimate concussion after he was accidentally kneed in the back of the head by Sheamus.
• 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 ring announcer Lauren C. Mayhew had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
• On November 26, Tetsuya Bushi defeated Avisman to win the IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship.
• 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.
• BxB Hulk became the inaugual Dragon Gate USA Open the Freedom Gate Champion by defeating Yamato, Cima, and Gran Akuma in the tournament final on November 28.
• On November 30, British Sky Broadcasting 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.

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

1. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
2. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
3. 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.
4. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
5. 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.

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• SuperSilver901 (talk · contribs)
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As of December 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	102		174
	B	6	19	83	244		352
	C	1	8	61	285		355
	Start	7	49	295	2171		2522
	Stub			16	522	1	539
	List		3	29	645	1	678
	Future			3	8		11
	Assessed	14	92	578	4012	2	4698
	Unassessed					7	7
	Total	14	92	578	4012	9	4705

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Bobby Kay, Derick Neikirk, Leo Burke, Rated-RKO, and Rudy Kay are current Good article nominees.
• Rosey and The Hurricane (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• The following article appeared in the Did you know? column on the main page:
  • December 17: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: American Angels- Baptism of Blood, List of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts, Michigan Championship Wrestling Association(MCWA), and UPWA Pro Wrestling.
    • Deleted: Billy The P, Brian Fury, MVP and Mark Henry, and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
  • Templates for discussion
    • Current: Template:Slammy Award Winners

—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 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 233 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of December and January.

• December:
  • 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Final Resolution
• January:
  • 17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
  • 22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
  • 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

• Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Davey Richards to win the FIP World Heavyweight Championship at a Dragon Gate show in Japan on December 6.
• On December 8, Tajiri was announced as the producer of a new Japanese promotion, Smash!.
• On December 10:
  • It was announced that current TNA wrestler Bobby Lashley had signed a deal to compete in mixed martial arts for Strikeforce.
  • It was reported that Universal Championship Wrestling promoter and wrestler, "The Shooter" Ronnie Gossett, had been hospitalised after a heart attack.
• On December 11:
  • It was reported that Bobby Heenan had been hopitalised with an infection in his rebuilt jaw.
  • Ontario independent wrestler Damien Truth (real name Damien Evans) died from a heart attack in Brampton at the age of 29.
• At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs on December 13:
  • Drew McIntyre defeated John Morrison to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
  • Sheamus won the WWE Championship by defeating John Cena in a Tables match.
  • D-Generation X (Shawn Michaels and Triple H) defeated Chris Jericho and The Big Show in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship.
• On December 16:
  • It was reported that Bret Hart had re-signed with WWE on a short-term contract.
  • Christy Hemme announced her retirement from in-ring competition, although she will remain affiliated with TNA.
• On December 18, it was reported that TNA backstage interviewer, Lauren Brooke, had left the company.
• At ROH's first live pay-per-view, Final Battle 2009, on December 19:
  • Larry Sweeney made his ROH return as a color commentator.
  • The Briscoe Brothers defeated The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for a record sixth time.

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

1. Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
2. Knowledge (XXG) is not a crystal ball, so do not add speculation about future events to articles.
3. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
4. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
5. 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.

From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!

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• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• Wrestlinglover (talk · contribs)

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As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	102		174
	B	6	20	82	244		352
	C	1	8	64	291		364
	Start	7	51	289	2214		2561
	Stub			15	462		477
	List		3	30	647	1	681
	Future			3	8		11
	Assessed	14	95	574	4003	1	4687
	Unassessed					5	5
	Total	14	95	574	4003	6	4692

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Bobby Kay, Derick Neikirk, Leo Burke, Rated-RKO, and Rudy Kay are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? column:
  • December 23: Derick Neikirk
  • December 27: Rafael Halperin
  • December 28: Final Battle 2009
  • December 31: Franky The Mobster and Learning the Ropes
  • January 2: Jigsaw (wrestler)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Deleted: American Angels- Baptism of Blood, List of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, Michigan Championship Wrestling Association(MCWA), Spencer Khrone, UPWA Pro Wrestling, and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 (2nd nomination).
    • Kept: Aaron Proctor and List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts.
  • Templates for discussion
    • Deleted: Template:Slammy Award Winners

—Project

• 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.
• GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) recapped the prgress of the project this year and since it's creation at WT:PW#2009 WP:PW progress.
• A new set of New Year's Resolutions for 2010 have been announced at Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Resolutions 2010.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 234 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of January.

• 17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
• 22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
• 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

• On December 20:
  • It was reported that Ricky Steamboat, Jr. had signed a developmental contract with WWE.
  • Former wrestler Colt Steel (real name C.J. Jackson) died at the age of 53. The cause of death is currently unknown.
  • At Final Resolution:
    • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB.
    • 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.
• The Mexican National Trios Championship was vacated in late December, due to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre announcing Black Warrior's retirement. A tournament has been set up to crown new champions.
• It was reported that Incognito had signed a WWE contract.
• On December 25, World Xtreme Wrestling announced that Jimmy Snuka's daughter, Sarona, had signed a contract with WWE.
• Dixie Carter announced that TNA had signed The Young Bucks to a contract on December 26.
• On December 27, Cima and Gamma defeated Shingo Takagi and Yamato to win the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship, but vacated the championship immediately afterwards.
• Melina suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament at a house show on December 29.
• On December 30, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams died at the age of 49 due to cancer.

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

1. The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
2. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
3. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
4. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see WP:PW/SG#Sources.
5. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	103		175
	B	6	21	83	246		356
	C	1	8	66	295		370
	Start	7	51	286	2160		2504
	Stub			15	451		466
	List		3	30	644	1	678
	Future			4	8		12
	Assessed	14	96	575	3942	1	4628
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	14	96	575	3942	3	4630

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Nick Nemeth, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) has failed its Good article nomination but has been nominated for a Good article reassessment here.
• The following article appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
  • January 7: Billy Sandow
  • January 16: Jim White (wrestler)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Deleted: Dynamite Chris Hart

—Project

• 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 235 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of January.

• 17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
• 22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
• 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

• On January 4:
  • WWE confirmed Tommy Dreamer's departure from the company, after his final match and farewell speech on the December 29 episode of ECW.
  • WWE announced that Melina had vacated the WWE Divas Championship due to injury, and set up a tournament to determine the new champion.
  • TNA held their first live edition of Impact! to compete against Raw, which featured:
    • Returns from wrestlers including Jeff Hardy, Shannon Moore, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman, as well as the debuts of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Eric Bischoff.
    • ODB defeating Tara to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
    • Hamada and Awesome Kong defeating Talyor Wilde and Sarita to win the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship.
  • At Wrestle Kingdom IV:
    • No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating the former champions, Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), and Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard) in a three-way hardcore match.
    • Naomichi Marufuji defeated Tiger Mask IV to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
• On January 6, Mascara Dorada, Metro, and Stuka, Jr. defeated Dragón Rojo, Jr., Misterioso II, and Sangre Azteca in a tournament final to win the vacant Mexican National Trios Championship.
• 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.
  • Dr. Cerebro defeated Tetsuya Bushi to win the IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship.
• K-Ness defeated Naoki Tanisaki to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship on January 11.
• On January 14, The Fortunate Sons (Brett DiBiase and Joe Hennig defeated The Dudebusters (Caylen Croft, Trent Barreta, and Curt Hawkins) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.
• The Evolve promotion held their first show on January 16.

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

1. Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
2. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
3. 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 reliable source and is verifiable.
• Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a non-point of view perspective.

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• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• Wrestlinglover (talk · contribs)

Project Navigation

As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Nemeth, ROH World Television Championship, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay is undergoing a Good article reassessment here.
• Rated-RKO (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? section of the main page:
  • January 19: Metro (wrestler)
  • January 21: Eric Holmback
  • January 24: Dr. Wagner and Ángel Blanco
  • January 28: Ida Mae Martinez
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion/Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
    • Deleted: The Straight Edge Society

—Project

• 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 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 235 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of January and February.

• January:
  • 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble
• February:
  • 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
  • 21 - WWE presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 17:
  • WWE announced the release of Eric Escobar from his contract.
  • At TNA's Genesis pay-per-view event on January 17:
    • TNA discontinued their six-sided wrestling ring and reintroduced their four-sided ring.
    • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB in a two out of three falls match.
    • Matt Morgan and Hernandez defeated The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
    • Brian Kendrick and Mr. Anderson made their return and debut, respectively, to TNA.
• Ida Mae Martinez died on January 19 at the age of 78.
• On January 20:
  • Ring of Honor announced the creation of the ROH World Television Championship. A tournament will be held to determine the inaugural champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on February 5 and 6.
  • The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
• On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
• On January 23:
  • Da Heavy Hitters (Monsta Mack and Havok) won the JAPW Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
  • Davey Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki at the DGUSA Fearless pay-per-view taping.
• On January 27:
  • Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
  • It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
  • On January 28, Doug Williams defeated Amazing Red to win the TNA X Division Championship.

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

1. The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
2. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see WP:PW/SG#Sources.
3. Knowledge (XXG) is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.

• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• Truco (talk · contribs)
• Wrestlinglover (talk · contribs)

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As of February 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, Nick Nemeth, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) was not promoted to Good article status after a Good article reassessment, and was renominated as a Good article nominee. It has since passed.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • January 31: Mascarita Dorada
  • February 5: OVW Heavyweight Championship
  • February 8: ROH World Television Championship
  • February 13: Frankie Arion
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: WWE NXT
    • Deleted: AWS Heavyweight Championship, Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts
• Requested moves:
  • Moved:
    • Demonio Azul to Blue Demon (discussion)
    • Demonio Azul, Jr. to Blue Demon, Jr. (discussion)

—Project

• 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 February 14, we are at 10.07%, with 472 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 236 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of February.

• 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
• 21 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 31:
  • Tim Donst defeated Player Dos to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup.
  • At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 31:
    • Mickie James won the WWE Women's Championship by defeating Michelle McCool.
    • Edge made his return after injury to win the Royal Rumble match.
    • Beth Phoenix became only the second woman in history to enter the Royal Rumble match.
• Jack Brisco died on February 1 at the age of 68.
• On the February 2 episode of ECW, Vince McMahon announced that ECW will be coming to an end. It will be replaced with a program called WWE NXT, which will debut on March 2.
• In early february it was announced that Canadian indepedent promotions Border City Wrestling and BSE Pro have merged to form Maximum Pro Wrestling.
• Independent wrestler Human Tornado announced his retirement on February 4.
• On the February 8 episode of Raw, The Miz and The Big Show won the WWE Unified Tag Team Championship by defeating the reigning champions D-Generation X and CM Punk and Luke Gallows in a triple threat match.
• Retired Canadian professional wrestler Charles Baillargeon died on February 10 following a stroke at the age of 92.
• On February 11, ROH announced that their television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling, would begin airing on Dahlia TV in Italy.
• Tyler Black won the ROH World Championship for the first time at ROH's 8th Anniversary Show on February 13 by defeating Austin Aries.

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As of February 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Debra Marshall, Derick Neikirk (review page), Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Scott Hudson (announcer)
    • Deleted: Monster Mack (2nd nomination) and Mountain Wrestling Association.
    • Kept: Naoki Sano and WWE NXT.
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Current: Professional wrestlers by century
    • Renamed: Pay-per-views and Wrestling navboxes.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:Mr. Money in the Bank
• Requested moves:
  • Current: WWE The Bash to WWE The Great American Bash (discussion)

—Project

• 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 February 28, we have dipped below 10% for the first time at 9.93%, with 469 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 238 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.

• 5 - Dragon Gate USA presents Fearless
• 12 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Rey de Reyes
• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Destination X
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI

• Negro Casas defeated Hijo del Fantasma to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship on February 14.
• On February 15, TNA announced that TNA Impact! will be moving to a Monday night timeslot to compete against WWE Raw.
• On February 16:
  • Dave Taylor was announced as the new TNA agent.
  • On the final episode of ECW:
    • Ezekiel Jackson won the ECW Championship by defeating Christian in an Extreme Rules match.
    • The eight FCW wrestlers who will be competing on WWE NXT were announced as Daniel Bryan, Justin Gabriel, Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, Darren Young, David Otunga, and Michael Tarver.
• On February 17, it was announced that New Japan Pro Wrestling competitor, Kazuchika Okada had begun working for TNA.
• At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on February 21:
  • Chris Jericho won the World Heavyweight Championship by winning an Elimination Chamber match.
  • John Cena won an Elimination Chamber match to win the WWE Championship. Immediately after the match, however, he was defeated by Batista for the championship.
  • Sheamus O'Shaunessy suffered a concussion during his WWE championship defense in an Elimination Chamber match.
• On the February 22 episode of Raw, Maryse defeated Gail Kim in the finals of a tournament to win the WWE Divas Championship.
• The inaugural episode of NXT aired on Syfy on February 23.
• TNA announced a pay-per-view deal with the Extreme Sports Channel in the United Kingdom on February 25. The first pay-per-view to be broadcast as part of the deal will be Destination X.
• On February 26:
  • World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced they had released wrestlers Gregory Helms, Paul Burchill, and Maria from their contracts, along with referee, Scott Armstrong.
  • On SmackDown, Michelle McCool defeated Mickie James to win the WWE Women's Championship.
• Davey Richards defeated Kenny Omega on February 27 to win the PWG World Championship.

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1. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 New Year's Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
2. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see WP:PW/SG#Sources.
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As of March 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) and NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Debra Marshall, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: High-flyer wrestler, List of CZW events, MXW Pro Wrestling, Sarona Snuka, T-bone Funk, and Tiger Raj Singh.
    • Deleted: Johnny Rich, Lutta corsa, and Scott Hudson (announcer).
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Current: Category:Flagship professional wrestling pay-per-view events by promotion
    • Deleted: Professional wrestlers by century
• Requested moves:
  • Current: Matthew Kaye to Matt Striker (discussion).
  • Moved: WWE The Bash to WWE The Great American Bash (discussion)

—Project

• 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 March 14, we are at 9.78%, with 463 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 241 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.

• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Destination X
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI

• On February 28, WWE announced that Charlie Haas had been released from his contract.
• The inaugural episode of Wrestlicious Takedown aired on March 1.
• On March 4:
  • Angelo Poffo died at the age of 84.
  • TNA released Traci Brooks from her contract.
• On March 5:
  • Eddie Edwards became the inaugural ROH World Television Champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, by defeating his tag team partner Davey Richards in a tournament final.
  • It was reported that Sean Morley and Roxxi had been released from their TNA contracts.
• Tigre Cota and Tito Santana II defeated Angel Dorado, Jr. and Sky (c) to win the AAA Northern Tag Team Championship on March 7.
• On March 8:
  • On TNA Impact!:
    • The TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship was vacated. The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) defeated Sarita and Taylor Wilde and Angelina Love and Tara in a triple threat tag team match to win the vacant championship.
    • Rob Van Dam made his debut.
  • Jillian Beyor was released from her World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) developmental contract.
• On March 10, Ring of Honor (ROH) announced the creation of a downloadable DVD website, which will allow fans to download out-of-stock DVD titles.
• On March 11:
  • John Hill, better known as Jerry Valiant, died,
  • Sandy Scott died at the age of 75 due to pancreatic cancer.
• On March 12, Women Superstars Uncensored announced a television deal with with The Fight Network and InASecTV.

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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
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As of March 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) and NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Debra Marshall and Nick Mitchell are current Good article nominees.
• ROH World Television Championship (review page) was not promoted to Good article status.
• The following article appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
  • Tiger Raj Singh March 21, 2010
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Mike Senica
    • Kept: Edward Chastain and Tiger Raj Singh.
    • Deleted: Alternative Wrestling Show, List of CZW events, Sarona Snuka, and T-bone Funk.
    • No consensus: MXW Pro Wrestling
    • Redirected: High-flyer wrestler
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Deleted: Category:Flagship professional wrestling pay-per-view events by promotion
• Requested moves:
  • Moved: Matthew Kaye to Matt Striker (discussion).

—Project

• 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 March 28, we are at 7.85%, with 373 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 242 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of March and April.

• March:
  • 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI
• April:
  • 3 - Ring of Honor (ROH) presents The Big Bang!
  • 18 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Lockdown
  • 25 - WWE presents Extreme Rules

• On March 14:
  • Adam Pearce won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship by defeating the reigning champion Blue Demon, Jr. and Phil Shatter in a three-way elimination match.
  • Corsica Joe died at the age of 90 in Nashville, Tennessee.
• On March 19:
  • At Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show, La Sombra defeated El Felino in a Mask vs. Mask match, forcing El Felino to unmask.
  • Takeshi Morishima and Taiji Ishimori won the AAA World Tag Team Championship from La Hermandad 187 (Nicho el Milionario and Joe Lider) at a television taping.
• On March 20:
  • Mikel Scicluna died at the age of 80 due to cancer.
  • Charlie Haas won the JAPW New Jersey State Championship by defeating Devon Moore.
  • Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Claudio Castagnoli and Ares) won the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas by defeating The Colony (Fire Ant and Soldier Ant).
• On March 21:
  • Shingo Takagi and Cyber Kong defeated Cima and Gamma to win the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship.
  • Yamato defeated Naruki Doi to become the new Open the Dream Gate Champion.
• On March 22:
  • Wade Barrett broken his nose at the NXT tapings.
  • Dixie Carter officially confirmed Awesome Kong's release from TNA.
• It was reported on March 24 that Florida Championship Wrestling competitor Richie Steamboat had suffered a torn PCL.
• On March 26, it was reported that Marco Corleone had officially left AAA.

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4. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
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As of March 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) was not promoted to Featured list status.
• Michael Brendli and ROH World Television Championship (review page) are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Brimstone (wrestler) (2nd nomination) and Derek Allen.
    • Deleted: Mike Senica and WrestleMania XXVIII.
• Requested moves
  • Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WP:TW#Proposed moves and WP:TW#More proposed moves.
  • Moved: Chris Mordetzky to Chris Masters, Terry Gerin to Rhino (wrestler), Jason Reso to Christian (wrestler), Oleg Prudius to Vladimir Kozlov, Adam Copeland to Edge (wrestler), Sheamus O'Shaunessy to Sheamus, Angel Williams to Angelina Love, Leonardo Carrera to Damián 666, Erick Casas to Heavy Metal (wrestler), Jake Hager to Jack Swagger, Rafael García to Super Caló, and José Luis Jair Soria to Shocker (wrestler).

—Project

• 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 April 11, we are at 7.62%, with 363 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.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 243 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of April.

• 18 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Lockdown
• 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules

• At WrestleMania XXVI:
  • John Cena won the WWE Championship by defeating Batista.
  • Jack Swagger won the Money in the Bank ladder match.
  • The Undertaker defeated Shawn Michaels in a "Streak vs. Career" match, forcing Michaels to retire.
• On March 29:
  • It was reported that Consequences Creed and the Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) had been released from their TNA contracts.
  • Brooke Adams made her TNA debut on Impact! as Eric Bischoff's assistant, Ms. Tessmacher.
• Jack Swagger cashed in his Money in the Bank contract at the SmackDown taping on March 30 and defeated Chris Jericho to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time. The match aired on the April 2 episode of SmackDown.
• Christopher Daniels was released from his TNA contract on March 31.
• Chris Kanyon died on April 2 at the age of 40 due to a drug overdose in an apparent suicide.
• On April 3:
  • Lance Cade was released from his WWE contract.
  • At ROH's The Big Bang! pay-per-view:
    • Christopher Daniels made his return to Ring of Honor (ROH).
    • The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) defeated the Briscoe Brothers (Mark and Jay) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the second time.
• On April 5 on Impact!, Angelina Love won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating Tara, Velvet Sky, and Daffney, and opening the correct lockbox with the key she won as a result.

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1. 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.
2. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
3. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
5. The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to when adding to information to biography articles.

1. Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
2. Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a non-point of view perspective.

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As of April 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,789		63	2,215
Start	2	48	339	5,166		163	5,718
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,183		41	1,290
Category			3	22	2,296		2,321
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,684		1,686
Redirect		1	11	105	649		766
Template		2	7	112	806		927
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,286	5,585	312	16,372
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,287	5,585	313	16,374
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Sherri Martel is a current Good article nominee.
• Spirit Squad (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Peter Maivia, Jr., Ricky Vega, and Team Lay-Cool.
    • Deleted: Derek Allen, Madison Eagles (2nd nomination), and Massachusetts wrestling.
    • Kept: Brimstone (wrestler) (2nd nomination)
  • Templates for deletion:
    • Deleted: Template:Wrestling PPVs
• Requested moves
  • Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WT:PW#Proposed moves.
  • Moved: Nelson Erazo to Homicide (wrestler), Scott Levy to Raven (wrestler), Jessica Kresa to ODB (wrestler), and Harry Fujiwara to Mr. Fuji.

—Project

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This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of April and May.

• April:
  • 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules
  • 26 - WWE presents the 2010 WWE Draft
• May:
  • 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice
  • 23 - WWE presents Over the Limit

• Madison Eagles defeated MsChif on April 11 to win the Shimmer Championship.
• On April 12:
  • Eve Torres won the WWE Divas Championship for the first time by defeating Maryse on Raw.
  • TNA debuted a new television show, ReAction.
  • It was reported that SmackDown will be moving to the Syfy channel in late 2010.
• On April 14:
  • Wrestlicious announced a television deal with The Fight Network in Canada to air Wrestlicious Takedown, beginning in May.
  • Gene Kiniski died at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer.
  • It was reported that WWE had released Beverly Mullins from her contract.
  • Bison Smith and Keith Walker won the GHC Tag Team Championship from Takeshi Rikioh and Muhammad Yone.
• On April 17:
  • Jon Moxley won a "Florida Rumble" tournament to win the vacated FIP World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, by last defeating Roderick Strong. The championship was vacated by Davey Richards due to contractual issues in March.
  • Tyler Veritas suffered a broken foot at an MBA event in South Philadelphia, and is expected to be rehabilitating the injury for up to six weeks.
  • Cindy Rogers and Jana won the WSU Tag Team Championship by defeating Angel Orsini and Mercedes Martinez.
  • LuFisto suffered a minor stroke shortly after a match, but is not expected to need time off.
• On April 18:
  • Tigers Mask defeated Super Shisa to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship.
  • Máscara Año 2000, Jr. defeated El Canek to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship.
  • At Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Lockdown pay-per-view:
    • Doug Williams was stripped of the TNA X Division Championship due to no-showing the event because of a volcano eruption in Iceland, which disrupted flights in Europe.
    • Frankie Kazarian went on to win the vacant X Division Championship by defeating Homicide and Shannon Moore in a three-way steel cage match.
    • Madison Rayne won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship in a tag team steel cage match, making her the first person to hold the Knockouts Championship and the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championships simultanously.
• Rob Van Dam won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on April 19 by defeating A.J. Styles on Impact!.
• On April 20:
  • Adam Birch made his WWE return as Joey Mercury, losing a dark match to Shelton Benjamin prior to the SmackDown television tapings.
  • Daffney suffered a stinger and a bruised sternum during a dark match prior to the Impact! tapings.
  • Angelina Love partially tore her bicep muscle and suffered a complete ulnar collateral ligament tear at the Impact! tapings, and is expected to miss several weeks.
  • Former Southwest Championship Wrestling announcer Steve Stack died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Katsuji Adachi, better known as Mr. Hito, died in Calgary at the age of 67. His death was related to diabetes.
• On April 21:
  • Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi were stripped of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
  • "Gorgeous" George Grant died at the age of 85.
• WWE announced the release of seven wrestlers from their contracts: Mickie James, Katie Lea, Shelton Benjamin, Slam Mater J, Jimmy Wang Yang, Kung Fu Naki, and Mike Knox on April 22.