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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Project News
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 * Backlash (2006), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), and Survivor Series (2005) have been elevated to Good Article status.


 * SummerSlam (2007) (link) and SummerSlam (1988) (link) have been nominated for Featured Article status.


 * Backlash (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Paul London, Royal Rumble (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.


 * Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here.

Current Events
 * Darren Matthews (William Regal) was suspended by WWE for 60 days for breaching the Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy.


 * The 2008 WWE Draft was announced by World Wrestling Entertainment chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008.


 * At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H.


 * Also, at One Night Stand, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe forced to leave WWE.

The Month in Wrestling History
 * May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge.
 * May 21, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title.
 * May 22, 2000 - Vince Russo stripped Ric Flair of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and awarded it to Jeff Jarret.
 * May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack.
 * May 19, 2004 - Ron Killings won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Member News
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 * Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
 * Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
 * NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
 * On the calendar:
 * 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
 * 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
 * 29 - CJMiller's birthday
 * 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
 * 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for May 25 through June 7 is Rick Rude. The Featured article collaboration is Carly Colón. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, June 8. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion
 * Current:
 * Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom.
 * Redirected:
 * Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10.

From the Editors

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Project News
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 * SummerSlam (1988) and SummerSlam (2007) have both failed their Featured Article Candidacy's, their review pages can be found here and here, respectively.


 * List of WWE SmackDown video game titles (link) has been nominated for Featured List status.


 * IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (link) has been nominated for removal as a Featured List.


 * Paul London, SummerSlam (2004), Survivor Series (1994), and WWE SmackDown (video game series) are currently Good article candidates.


 * Backlash (2007) (link), Unforgiven (2006) (link), The Rock (entertainer) (link), One Night Stand (2007) (link), The Great American Bash (2007) (link) and Royal Rumble (2005) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.


 * Over the Edge (1999) has passed its reassessment and is now a good article! The article's reassessment can be found here.


 * A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the Wrestling event infobox, please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles.


 * The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class.

The Month in Wrestling History
 * June 1, 1998 - Junkyard Dog died at the age of forty-five in an automobile accident.
 * June 2, 2003 - Freddie Blassie died at the age of eighty-five from natural causes.
 * June 10, 1983 - Harley Race defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
 * June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven.
 * June 13, 1993 - Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight title.
 * June 19 2002 - AJ Styles became the first TNA X Division Champion.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Member News
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 * Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
 * On the calendar:
 * 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
 * 10 - Chandlerjoeyross's birthday
 * 10 - King Gemini's birthday
 * 11 - Wweisreal's birthday
 * 20 - Umdunno's birthday

Current Events
 * James Yun was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Policy.


 * Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion."


 * WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home.

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for June 22 through July 5 is James Yun. The Featured article collaboration is Candice Michelle. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, July 5. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion From the Editors
 * Current: Mark Beale.
 * Kept: Triplemania, Antonio Peña.
 * Redirected:
 * Deleted: All Action Wrestling.

Contributors to this Issue:

Discussion • Suggestions • Feedback


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 * } Delivered: 17:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)