Talk:History of World Championship Wrestling

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Merger
Shouldn't this article be merged with World Championship Wrestling? Lex94 Talk Contributions Guest Book 20:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

GA Nomination failed
After reading through the article and comparing it closely to WP:WIAGA, I have come to the conclusion that it does not meet the requirements needed for a good article. The following problems all need correction before this will be GA standard: Otherwise, the article does appear stable, neutral (other than some of the section titles, see above), and uses images appropriately. However, the writing, organization, and referencing problems are so many that it does not appear that this article is close to GA status at this point. If the above problems can be fixed, please feel free to renominate this article. If you feel this review was handled inappropriately, please ask for remediation at WP:GA/R. If you have any other questions or need help, just ask at my talk page. --Jayron32| talk | contribs 04:10, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Criteria 1 (writing):
 * Lead section does NOT adequately summarize the article. See WP:LEAD.  Basically, each section in the article needs some mention in the lead.  Plus, the lead is self referential (the first sentance refers to the article itself in an awkward way) which should be rewritten to fix that.  That is a minor problem, however, and of itself would have NOT caused a fail.  The inadequacy of the lead in terms of summarizing the article is a much bigger problem, however.
 * The layout seems a bit lacking. The section titles don't really comply with the Manual of Style (some are too long, some are self-referential, and some seem hagiograpical-POV), and some sections seem a bit short.  See WP:LAYOUT and WP:MOS for more information.
 * What's up with the slide-box on the notes section? The use of these in articles is deprecated.
 * Criteria 2 (referencing): The following statements or sections lack for ANY inline citation, and without specific inline footnotes, it is impossible to adequately verify the claims that they make:
 * "Since it was all they now saw, people began to believe that JCP was the NWA. Although JCP and the NWA were still two separate entities, with Crockett as NWA President, they were very much on the same page. The NWA was effectively an on-paper organization funded by Crockett and allowed Crockett to use the NWA brand name for promoting." This analysis is unreferenced at all. Where does this analysis come from?
 * "To preserve the inexpensive network programming provided by professional wrestling, JCP was purchased outright by Turner on November 21, 1988. Originally incorporated by TBS as the Universal Wrestling Corporation, Turner promised the fans that WCW would be the athlete-oriented style of NWA. 1989 proved to be a turnaround year for WCW, with Ric Flair on top for most of the year as both World Champion and head booker. Flair helped bring in Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk, and his pay-per-view matches with were financially and critically successful. Young stars such as Sid Vicious, Sting, Scott Steiner, The Road Warriors, Brian Pillman, The Great Muta and Lex Luger were given major storylines and championship opportunities." Lots of info here, NO references. Where does this info come from?
 * "WCW later renegotiated the use of the NWA name as a co-promotional gimmick with New Japan Pro Wrestling and sued the WWF to stop showing Flair with the old NWA World Title belt on its programs, claiming a trademark on the physical design of the belt. The belt was returned to WCW by Flair when Jim Herd was let go and he received his deposit back plus interest. It was brought back as the revived NWA World Heavyweight Championship." unreferenced.
 * "The summertime saw the company's reputation take another hit due to a mishap at a live televised event. In 1993, Ric Flair returned to WCW from his WWF tenure, but was constrained by a no-compete clause from his WWF contract. In response, WCW gave him a talk show segment on its television shows called "A Flair for the Gold," in the mold of the old "Piper's Pit" segments from 1980s WWF programming starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. During a segment of the talk show on an August Clash of the Champions event building up the next month's Fall Brawl show, WCW decided to introduce a "mystery partner" for the babyfaces, a masked man known as The Shockmaster. The Shockmaster (previously known as "Typhoon" in the WWF) was supposed to crash through a fake wall and intimidate the heels. Instead, he tripped through the wall and fell on his face on live television, inadvertently rendering himself a joke character (despite winning some matches)." Unreferenced.
 * Aggressive competition with the WWF section has only one reference, and it is unclear if this one reference applies only to the last paragraph or to the whole section.
 * Dominance section has several paragraphs that are unreferenced.
 * Signs of a decline section has several parts that are unreferenced. Additionally, there is NO source for the data used to create the TV ratings graphic.  Its a great graphic, and the article benefits from it, but we need to know whose ratings these are and where they come from specifically.

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Competing with WWF
Georgia Championship Wrestling could be seen as "going national" before the WWF. GCW was on cable in the 1970s. It changed its main titles (Georgia Heavyweight & Georgia Tag Team) to National Heavyweight and National Tag Team titles in 1980. It rebranded the TV show to World Championship Wrestling in 1982. It started promoting in places like Michigan and Ohio. All of this was done while the WWF remained in the northeast (and eastern Ohio), and still under Vincent James McMahon (Vince Sr.) For these reasons, I don't think its accurate to state it changed the name to compete with the WWF, GCW (or its stockholders and Ted Turner) had its own, independent desires to grow nationally. NWAjr. (talk) 03:37, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

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NPOV dispute
This article is written like a retrospective from one particular viewpoint, rather than a non-bias, neutral piece explaining the history of World Championship Wrestling. Unless news articles and reviews are being quoted and cited, there's no justification for it. Let people form their own opinions. MarcoPolo250 (talk) 14:21, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Section header "WCW under Ted Turner (1988–2001)"
This section needs a different name as it actually covers the years 1988-1993 post-Turner buyout, pre-Bischoff hiring. Romomusicfan (talk) 11:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

This article needs a rewrite
As you can see by this Talk page alone, this article has a serious problem with its tone. The lack of neutrality and the flagrant bias with no cited works to back up said unwarranted opinion is obvious. Stop ignoring the issue and do something about it. Wikipedia is not your personal blog.Thecleanerand (talk) 19:06, 6 August 2021 (UTC)