Talk:Royal Rumble (2005)

Question
In both the 1991 and 1994 Royal Rumbles, an entrant for one reason or another didn't make it to the ring. This should be mentioned in the trivia section.

Qualifying Matches
Normally, aren't the qualification matches for the royal rumble listed somewhere, or were there none in 2005? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lord Dagon (talk • contribs)
 * There usually aren't qualifying matches, that is actually someone rare. I don't think there were any in 2005.  TJ   Spyke   23:20, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Rare nowadays, probably. Because in 2004 there were either 9 or 11 ones listed....but thanks...--Lord Dagon (talk) 20:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Boatched ending
Just listened to a podcast with Batista where he says the ending was botched and that him and Cena being eliminated was not meant to happen. Should this be added to the results ? Bencey (talk) 20:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I don't know.  TJ   Spyke   23:19, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The info can be added to the notes section but i believe that if should be in the matches section> Bencey (talk) 15:01, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In the matches section? No. If it's added at all, it would have to say something like "Batista claimed".  TJ   Spyke   03:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Additions to peer review
The newsletter indicated that this article was up for peer review, but I must have missed it because the newsletter was delayed for a long while. Anyway, I have a couple of suggestions for improving the article:


 * Obviously, merge the trivia into the article or delete the non-notable bits per WP:Trivia.
 * In the lead, the first sentence reads "It took place on January 30, 2005 at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California,[1][2] which is why it used the West Side Story theme." Maybe it is just me, but that doesn't explain why their was the West Side Story theme. A better explanation would be nice.

Other than that, looks good. Nikki 311  00:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I assume the West Side Story part is because Fresno is on the west coast (you would have to ask the person who orinally wrote that to make sure though).  TJ   Spyke   01:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Lead

 * 1) which is why it used the West Side Story theme - explain, source, or remove.
 * – L A  X  02:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) John "Bradshaw" Layfield vs. Kurt Angle and The Big Show is saying it's a handicap match. it should be John "Bradshaw" Layfield vs. Kurt Angle vs. The Big Show
 * – L A  X  02:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Other On-Screen Talent

 * 1) T here should not be any red-links, remove the ones in this table.
 * – L A  X  02:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Background

 * 1) The main feud heading into Royal Rumble shouldn't it be "the Royal Rumble"
 * – L A  X  02:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Triple H won the Elimination Chamber match for the vacated title at New Year's Revolution, three weeks before Royal Rumble, with the illegal help of Batista and Ric Flair, the other members of Evolution. can be cut into two sentences.
 * – L A  X  02:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) RAW, you know the story, italics and lowercase "aw"
 * – L A  X  02:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) That comes up again.
 * Uh? – L A  X  02:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was referring to number three, saying it comes up twice in the background. iMat  thew   20  08  10:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Aftermath

 * 1) The RAW thing again.
 * – L A  X  11:30, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Saying that he remained a main event is more like a personal opinion.
 * Removed. – L A  X  12:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Can Road to WrestleMania Tournament be wiki-linked.
 * Nope. The article was deleted. – L A  X  11:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Barbed-Wire Steel Cage needs to be wiki-linked.
 * – L A  X  12:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Randy Orton, and Kurt Angle both moved away from the title picture after Royal Rumble. needs a ref.
 * Why? It's evident that they moved away from it and started their own feuds. – L A  X  12:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It can just be evident, it needs to be proven. iMat  thew   20  08  12:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Is that any better? – L A  X  12:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. iMat  thew   20  08  12:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Event

 * 1) Raw is not italicized in the last paragraph.
 * Raw isn't italicized at all in the event. – L A  X  12:20, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) The event section looks fine. I couldn't find any grammar/spelling errors or problems with sentences. It is referenced and all. It's good.

GA review
--  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you to LAX for getting the stuff I left at the talk page, because I have gone off and placed the article as GA. Congrats. ;) --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * An extra two things. I personally would recommend expanding the Aftermath a little, and probably add Undertaker/Heidenreich feud into the Background section IIRC, that feud started several months earlier and had a good lead-up. D.M.N. (talk) 06:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Royal Rumble (2005)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Royal Rumble (2005)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Results": From Yoshihiro Tajiri:  From Michael Cole (wrestling):  From Randy Orton:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 11:37, 15 April 2022 (UTC)