Knowledge (XXG)

As of August 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	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• Elimination Chamber, Layla El and Linda McMahon are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • August 17: Bloodymania
• WrestleMania (1985) (review page) is currently undergoing a peer review.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Create-a-wrestler, River City Wrestling, and Team LayCool.
    • Deleted: R. D. Reynolds, Tennessee Xtreme Wrestling, WrestleBunny, and Zane Morris (2nd nomination).
    • Kept: WWE Bragging Rights (2010)
    • Redirected: WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders, & Chairs (2010)

—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 August 29, we are at 7.07%, with 349 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 248 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 September.

• 3 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents CMLL 77th Anniversary Show
• 5 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents No Surrender
• 11 - Ring of Honor (ROH) presents Glory By Honor IX
• 19 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Night of Champions

• At SummerSlam on August 15:
  • Melina defeated Alicia Fox to win the WWE Divas Championship for the second time.
  • Bryan Danielson returned to WWE as Daniel Bryan.
• On August 18:
  • Skip Sheffield suffered a compound fracture in his left ankle at a house show. He is expected to undergo surgery and to rehabilitating the injury for approximately four to six months.
  • It was reported that Becky Bayless had signed a contract with TNA.
• On August 19:
  • Ted Allen died at the age of 54.
• Skandor Akbar died at the age of 75.
  • Homicide, Rosie Lottalove, and Tomko were released from their contracts with TNA.
• On August 20 it was announced that Pat Brink had signed a developmental contract with WWE.
• On August 22:
  • Jake Roberts announced his retirement.
  • Colin Delaney and Jimmy Olsen defeated The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) to win the 2CW Tag Team Championship.
  • Koji Kanemoto and Tiger Mask IV won the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship by defeating Ricky Marvin and Taiji Ishimori.
• On August 23, Ring of Honor announced that they had signed Adam Cole and Mike Bennett to contracts. They also announced that the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) had signed contract extensions.
• On August 27:
  • Anton Geesink died in The Netherlands at the age of 76.
  • Luna Vachon was found dead in Florida at the age of 48. Her cause of death is yet to be determined.
  • Tony Borne died at the age of 84. He had been ill since requiring an artificial pacemaker in early August.
  • WWE confirmed the release of Serena from her contract.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. A list of unreferenced wrestling-related BLPs is generated here. Please help out by sourcing these articles.
2. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
3. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
4. 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.
5. 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 September 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	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• Gail Kim and Rebecca Knox are a current Good article nominees.
• Elimination Chamber (review page) and Hell in a Cell (review page) were not promoted to Good article status.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • September 4: King of the Ring (2000)
  • September 6: King of the Ring (1997)
  • September 8: King of the Ring (2008)
• Hell in a Cell (review page) and List of WWE pay-per-view events (review page) are currently undergoing peer reviews.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: IWA East Coast
    • Deleted: Create-a-wrestler, Lionheart (wrestler), River City Wrestling, and Team LayCool.
    • Redirected: Michael Hutter
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Deleted: Category:Dungeon graduates
  • Files for deletion:
    • Current: File:G rilla.jpg
• Requested moves
  • Current: TJ Wilson to Tyson Kidd (discussion) and Paul Wight to Big Show (wrestler) (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 Sepember 12, we are at 6.98%, with 348 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 247 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 September.

• 19 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Night of Champions

• On August 29:
  • Ring announcer and St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Famer Mickey Garagiola died.
  • PAC won the vacant Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship by defeating Susumu Yokosuka. He is the first English and European wrestler to hold the championship, and only the second from outside Japan.
  • Frightmare won the Young Lion Cup by defeating Lince Dorado in the finals of the eighth Young Lions Cup tournament.
• On August 30:
  • J. C. Bailey died at the age of 27.
  • Beverly Lehmer died in Estes Park, Colorado at the age of 77.
• Kaval won the second season of NXT on August 31.
• On September 1:
  • It was reported that Joey Mercury had undergone surgery on a torn pectoral muscle during the previous weekend. He is expected to miss approximately six months.
  • It was reported that Alex Koslov had signed a developmental contract with WWE, and is expected to debut in October.
• On September 2 Ring of Honor (ROH) announced that Chris Hero had signed a contract extension and Claudio Castagnoli had signed a new contract.
• On September 5:
  • Joey Ryan won Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's 2010 Battle of Los Angeles by defeating Chris Hero in the final.
  • Kurt Angle dislocated a rib at No Surrender, but is not expected to miss any time.
• At the Impact! tapings on September 6, Jay Lethal defeated Douglas Williams to win the TNA X Division Championship. This match will air on September 16.
• On September 7:
  • Dragon Gate USA announced a deal with GoFightLive to broadcast live internet pay-per-views.
  • Mascara Dorada defeated Negro Casas to win the CMLL World Welterweight Championship.
• On September 8:
  • ROH announced that Eddie Edwards had signed a new contract.
  • ROH announced that Ring of Honor Wrestling will start airing in France on MCM in mid-September.
  • ROH and Ohio Valley Wrestling announced a working relationship between the two companies, which involves Jim Cornette becoming the matchmaker for OVW.
• At ROH's Glory By Honor IX pay-per-view on September 11:
  • Roderick Strong won the ROH World Championship for the first time by defeating Tyler Black.
  • Jim Cornette announced that Davey Richards had re-signed with ROH, and would be competing for the company in 2011.
  • Homicide returned to ROH following the main event.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Knowledge (XXG) is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.
2. 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.
3. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
4. 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.
5. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.

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As of September 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	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• Gail Kim and Rebecca Knox are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • September 14: King of the Ring (2006)
  • September 16: King of the Ring (1996)
  • September 18: Unforgiven (1999)
  • September 24: Unforgiven (2000)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Canadian Unified Junior Heavyweight Championship, IWA East Coast Heavyweight Championship, and TAJJ Championship Wrestling.
    • Deleted: IWA East Coast and Megan Brooks.
    • Kept: List of Legends of Wrestling characters (no consensus) and List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards (no consensus).
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Deleted: Category:Worked for WWE, WCW, ECW and TNA
  • Files for deletion:
    • Deleted: File:G rilla.jpg

—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 September 26, we are at 6.96%, with 348 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 247 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 October.

• 1 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Héroes Inmortales IV
• 3 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Hell in a Cell
• 10 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Bound for Glory
• 24 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Bragging Rights

• La Fiera died on September 12 at the age of 49, after being stabbed multiple times.
• On September 13:
  • Ring of Honor (ROH) announced that Kenny King had signed a contract extension.
  • ROH announced that Kyle O'Reilly had signed a contract with the promotion.
  • Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) announced that Davey Richards had vacated the PWG World Championship due to other commitments. A new champion will be determined in a four-way match between Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Joey Ryan, and Brandon Gatson.
• On September 15, Aloisia (Lindsey Hayward) confirmed her release from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
• At the Night of Champions pay-per-view on September 19:
  • Daniel Bryan won the WWE United States Championship by defeating The Miz.
  • Michelle McCool defeated Melina Perez to unify the WWE Divas and WWE Women's Championships into the WWE Unified Divas Championship.
  • Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre won a Tag Team Turmoil match for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
  • Randy Orton won a six-pack elimination match for the WWE Championship.
• On September 21, Dixie Carter announced that Mr. Anderson had signed a new contract with TNA.
• On September 23:
  • Amazing Red won the TNA X Division Championship at a house show by defeating Jay Lethal.
  • Christian underwent surgery on a torn pectoral muscle, and is expected to be inactive for approximately six months.
• Jorge González died on September 24 at the age of 44.
• Jay Lethal regained the TNA X Division Championship from Amazing Red at a house show on September 25.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
2. Please consider helping out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
3. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
4. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
5. The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to when adding information to biographical 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 September 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	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• Gail Kim and Rebecca Knox are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • September 28: Unforgiven (2001)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Ryan Clark (journalist) and Survivor Series (2010).
    • Deleted: Canadian Unified Junior Heavyweight Championship and IWA East Coast Heavyweight Championship.
    • Kept: TAJJ Championship Wrestling (no consensus)
• Requested moves
  • Moved: Nigel McGuinness to Desmond Wolfe (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 October 10, we are at 6.98%, with 350 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 247 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 October.

• 10 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Bound for Glory
• 24 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Bragging Rights

• On September 28, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced that WWE NXT would be moving to their official website beginning with the October 5 episode.
• Tyler Black debuted for Florida Championship Wrestling on September 30, using the name Seth Rollins.
• Pimpinela Escarlata and Faby Apache won the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship on October 1 by defeating Alex Koslov and Christian Von Eerie.
• On October 3:
  • It was announced that Jersey All Pro Wrestling promoter Frank Iadevia had reached an agreement to run New Japan Pro Wrestling shows in the United States beginning in 2011.
  • El Felino defeated Gallo to win the CMLL Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship for the first time.
• On October 5 La Mascara defeated Volador Jr. to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship
• On October 7:
  • Mickie James returned to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on Impact!.
  • It was reported that Bruce Prichard had joined TNA as a producer.
  • It was reported that Austin Aries, Erick Stevens, Necro Butcher and the Dark City Fight Club (Kory Chavis and Jon Davis) are no longer under contract with Ring of Honor.
• Claudio Castagnoli won the vacant PWG World Championship on October 9 by defeating Chris Hero, Joey Ryan and Brandon Gatson in a four-way match.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
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. Please consider helping out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.

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Project Navigation

As of October 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	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• Gail Kim and Rebecca Knox are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Donald Sayenga
    • Deleted: Ryan Clark (journalist) and Westside Xtreme wrestling.
    • Kept: Survivor Series (2010) (no consensus)

—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 October 24, we are at 6.91%, with 347 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 248 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 October and November.

• October
  • 24 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Bragging Rights
  • 29 - Dragon Gate USA presents Bushido: Code of the Warrior

• November:
  • 7 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Turning Point
  • 21 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Survivor Series

• At TNA's Bound for Glory event on October 10:
  • Jeff Hardy won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, by winning a three-way match against Mr. Anderson and Kurt Angle.
  • Kurt Angle stated that he had re-dislocated his rib during the match.
  • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating defending champion Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, and Madison Rayne in a four-corners match.
• On October 11:
  • Satoshi Kojima won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship by defeating Togi Makabe.
  • Evan Bourne was written off television due to a shoulder injury. He underwent surgery on October 12 and is expected to be inactive for approximately four months.
• On October 12:
  • Mr. Anderson suffered a concussion at the Impact! television tapings.
  • Kevin Nash's contract with TNA expired.
• On October 13:
  • It was reported that WWE had released eliminated NXT competitor Jamie.
  • It was reported that Freddie Prinze, Jr. is once again working for WWE as a producer.
• On October 15:
  • Matt Hardy was released from his contract with WWE.
  • It was reported that Katarina Waters had signed a contract with TNA.
• On October 19, Ring of Honor announced that Christopher Daniels had officially signed a contract with the company.
• Mike E. Milano, the owner and promoter of Defiant Pro Wrestling died on October 20 following a stroke at the age of 46.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. A list of unreferenced wrestling-related BLPs is generated here. Please help out by sourcing these articles.
2. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
3. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
4. 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.
5. 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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