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• Lockdown (2008) (review page) is a current Featured article candidate.
• List of WCW World Tag Team Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• CZW World Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.

• Hard Justice (2008), Hardy Boyz, Judgment Day (2008), King of the Ring (1993), Lisa Moretti, Masa Saito, No Mercy (2003), No Mercy (2004), No Mercy (2007), No Surrender (2008), Royal Rumble (1993), Slammiversary (2008), Survivor Series (1992), Taboo Tuesday (2004), Unforgiven (2008), Velvet McIntyre, and Vince's Devils are current Good article nominees.
• Antonio Pugliese (link), Mike Lockwood (link), Rhonda Sing (link), and WrestleMania XXIV (link) have been promoted to Good Article status.

• WrestleMania XXIV (review page) and Over the Edge (1999) (review page) are currently under Peer Review. Comments have been requested to be added on the respective review pages.
• It has been requested that feedback for the Money in the Bank ladder match article be added to its talk page.
• Facts from Royal Rumble (1993) and List of King of the Ring winners were listed on the Main Page in the Did You Know? column on November 10 and 13, respectively.
• It has been proposed to introduce the A-Class assessment for WP:PW; the discussion can be found here.
• It has been proposed to merge Shooter (professional wrestling) into Shoot (professional wrestling); the discussion can be found here.

• There are currently 601 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			3	6	9
	FL			12	10	22
	GA		6	30	62	98
	B	1	16	64	207	288
	C		1	14	99	114
	Start	2	54	227	1764	2047
	Stub		1	24	569	594
	List		3	23	595	621
	Future			3	14	17
	Assessed	3	81	397	3312	3793
Total	3	81	397	3312	3793

• Based on the members list, there are currently 197 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of November:
    • 9 - TNA presents Turning Point
    • 15 - Rakez's birthday
    • 15 - Ericystephi's birthday
    • 20 - Batmanrules677's birthday
    • 23 - WWE presents Survivor Series

• Articles for Deletion
  • Kept: Volador Jr.
  • Redirected/Merged: The Experience (professional wrestling) and Rebecca Michaels.
  • Deleted: Alfonso Sharp
• Images for Deletion
  • Deleted: TNAlegendschampionship.jpg

• On November 9, THQ and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) released the fifth installment in the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw series, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009.
• On November 10, WWE released Elijah Burke, Kenny Dykstra, and Lena Yada from their contracts.
• William Regal defeated Santino Marella to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship on the November 10 episode of Raw.
• On November 18, WWE released Armando Estrada from his contract.

• November 10, 1991 - Dick the Bruiser died at the age of 62 from internal bleeding
• November 14, 1999 - The Big Show defeated Triple H to win the WWF Championship.
• November 15, 1998 - The Rock defeated Mankind in a tournament final for the WWF Championship.
• November 16, 1992 - The Sandman defeated Don Muraco for the ECW Heavyweight Championship.
• November 17, 2002 - Shawn Michaels defeated Triple H, Kane, Chris Jericho, Booker T, and Rob Van Dam to win the World Heavyweight Championship in the first Elimination Chamber.
• November 18, 2000 - Homicide defeated Jay Lover for the vacant Jersey All Pro Heavyweight Championship.
• November 18, 2001 - Edge unified the WWF Intercontinental and United States championships.
• November 18, 2001 - The Dudley Boyz unified the WWF and WCW Tag Team championships.
• November 20, 2002 - Jeff Jarrett defeated Ron Killings for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• November 21, 1999 - Bret Hart defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• November 22, 1954 - Promoter Roderick "Jess" McMahon died at age 72.

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• Lockdown (2008) (review page), Over the Edge (1999) (review page), and WrestleMania XXIV (review page) are current Featured article candidates.
• List of ECW Television Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• List of WCW World Tag Team Champions (review page) was promoted to Featured list status.
• CZW World Heavyweight Championship (review page) was removed as a Featured list.

• Hard Justice (2008), Hardy Boyz, Lisa Moretti (review page), Masa Saito, No Mercy (2004), No Mercy (2007) (review page), No Surrender (2008), Royal Rumble (1993), Slammiversary (2008), Survivor Series (1992), Taboo Tuesday (2004) (review page), Unforgiven (2008), and Velvet McIntyre are current Good article nominees.
• Judgment Day (2008) (review page), King of the Ring (1993) (review page), No Mercy (2003) (review page), and Vince's Devils (review page) were promoted to Good article status.
• Vince's Devils (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.

• Judgment Day (2008) (review page) and WWE Divas Championship (review page) are currently under Peer Review. It has been requested that comments be added on the respective review pages.
• It has been requested that feedback for the Money in the Bank ladder match and Night of Champions (2008) articles be added to their talk pages.
• It has been proposed to merge Shooter (professional wrestling) into Shoot (professional wrestling); the discussion can be found here.
• McMahon (documentary) was merged into Vince McMahon; the result of that discussion can be found here.
• A fact from Survivor Series (1992) and List of ECW Television Champions appeared on the main page as a Did You Know? on November 24 and December 6.

This is a new section in the newsletter to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style, which should help them in editing not only professional wrestling articles, but all articles in general.

1. Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
2. If you do not want your information removed from articles, please use proper grammar and cite your sources.
3. Please avoid adding rumors to articles. Most rumors cannot be sourced with a reliable source and go against the Biographies of Living Persons policy.
4. Avoid jargon such as face/babayface, heel, turn, etc. in articles. People unfamiliar with professional wrestling will not understand what these words mean. See WP:JARGON for more information.

• There are currently 601 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			3	6	9
	FL			12	10	22
	GA		6	31	65	102
	B	1	16	66	205	288
	C		2	15	98	115
	Start	2	54	229	1768	2053
	Stub		1	24	560	585
	List		3	24	602	629
	Future			2	14	16
	Assessed	3	82	406	3328	3819
	Total	3	82	406	3328	3819

• Based on the members list, there are currently 200 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of December:
    • 7 - TNA presents Final Resolution
    • 11 - Urena198's birthday
    • 14 - WWE presents Armageddon
    • 21 - Hanukkah begins at sundown
    • 23 - Paulley's birthday
    • 24 - Racer38's birthday
    • 25 - Christmas Day
    • 26 - Kwanzaa
    • 27 - SRX's birthday
    • 28 - FamicomJL's birthday
    • 31 - NickSparrow's birthday
    • 31 - WWEFAN99's birthday

• Articles for Deletion
  • Current: Dave Flores and Double chicken wing.
  • Deleted: Connal Kelleher.
• Images for Deletion
  • Current: Image:Candice Michelle Ring.jpg.
  • Deleted: Image:Barbie Candid.jpg.

• At Survivor Series:
  • Edge returned and won the WWE Championship after SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero added him to the match between then-champion Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov.
  • John Cena returned after neck surgery, and won the World Heavyweight Championship, for the first time, by defeating Chris Jericho.
• On the November 24 episode of Raw, Goldust, Melina and Mr. Kennedy made their television returns to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
• Steve Bradley died on December 4, 2008. His cause of death has not been determined.
• On the December 5 episode of SmackDown, Hurricane Helms made his in-ring return after an absence of over a year due to a neck injury.

• November 26, 1987 - Ric Flair defeated Ron Garvin to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• November 26, 1995 - Smoky Mountain Wrestling ceased operation.
• November 26, 2000 - Scott Steiner defeated Booker T to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• November 27, 1991 - The Undertaker defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight Championship.
• November 29, 2003 - Larry Lathman, better known as Moondog Spot, died of a heart attack in the ring.
• November 30, 1997 - Shane Douglas defeated Bam Bam Bigelow to win the ECW Championship.
• December 1, 1973 - Stan "The Man" Stasiak defeated Pedro Morales to win the WWWF Heavyweight Championship.
• December 5, 2003 - Jerry Tuite died of a a heart attack aged 36.
• December 7, 1996 - Raven defeated The Sandman to win the ECW Heavyweight Championship.

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• Lockdown (2008) (review page) and Over the Edge (1999) (review page) are current Featured article candidates.
• WrestleMania XXIV (review page) was not promoted as a Featured Article.
• List of WWF Light Heavyweight Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• List of ECW Television Champions (review page) was promoted to Featured list status.
• List of WWE Divas Champions and List of WWE Cruiserweight Champions (review page) have been nominated as an addition and withdrawal, respectively, to the Lists of World Wrestling Entertainment champions Featured topic.

• Masa Saito, Night of Champions (2008), No Mercy (2004), Royal Rumble (1993), Slammiversary (2008), and Survivor Series (1992) are current Good article nominees.
• Hard Justice (2008) (review page), Hardy Boyz (review page), Lisa Moretti (review page), No Mercy (2007) (review page), No Surrender (2008) (review page), Taboo Tuesday (2004) (review page), Unforgiven (2008) (review page) and Velvet McIntyre (review page) were promoted to Good article status.
• World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) was not promoted to Good article status.
• Vince's Devils (review page) was promoted to Good topic status.
• Hardy Boyz (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.

• Judgment Day (2008) (review page) is currently under Peer review. It has been requested that comments be added on the review page.
• Shooter (professional wrestling) has been merged into Shoot (professional wrestling); the discussion can be found here.
• Facts from Judgment Day (2003), Armageddon (2000), and Unforgiven (2002) were all listed on the Main Page in the Did You Know? column on December 12, and a fact from No Mercy (2002) was listed on December 13.

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

1. There is a new consensus to remove notes such as most reigns, first reign, last reign, etc. in the championships and accomplishments section. See here for more information.
2. Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
3. The television show RAW should now be written as Raw per WP:MOSCAPS.
4. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Misplaced Pages. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
5. If a sentence seems like it may not be true or is partially controversial, remove it or add {{fact}} directly after it.

• There are currently 616 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			3	6	9
	FL			12	11	23
	GA		6	33	71	110
	B	1	16	65	200	282
	C		2	15	98	115
	Start	2	54	227	1789	2072
	Stub		1	25	580	606
	List		3	23	601	627
	Future			2	13	15
	Assessed	3	82	405	3369	3859
	Total	3	82	405	3369	3859

• Based on the members list, there are currently 208 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of December:
    • 7 - TNA presents Final Resolution
    • 11 - Urena198's birthday
    • 14 - WWE presents Armageddon
    • 21 - Hanukkah begins at sundown
    • 23 - Paulley's birthday
    • 24 - Racer38's birthday
    • 25 - Christmas Day
    • 26 - Kwanzaa
    • 27 - SRX's birthday
    • 28 - FamicomJL's birthday
    • 31 - NickSparrow's birthday
    • 31 - WWEFAN99's birthday

• Articles for Deletion
  • Deleted: Chris Glidden, Dave Flores and Zade McClurg.
  • Redirected/Merged: Double chicken wing and List of World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reigns by length
• Images for Deletion
  • Deleted: Image:Candice Michelle Ring.jpg.

• At Final Resolution
  • Eric Young defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir to win the TNA X Division Championship. The Management Director of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Jim Cornette, stripped Young of the title after the event concluded due to interference from referee Shane Sewell. Cornette immediately set up a tournament afterwards for the X Division Championship to begin on the December 11 episode of TNA Impact!.
  • Suicide, played by Frankie Kazarian, a character from TNA Impact the video game, debuted after weeks of promotion.
• On the December 8 episode of Raw, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) held the Slammy Awards for the first time in eleven years.
• Gene Snitsky was released from his WWE contract on December 11.
• John Morrison and The Miz defeated CM Punk and Kofi Kingston at a WWE live event on December 13 to win the World Tag Team Championship.
• At Armageddon, Jeff Hardy defeated Edge and Triple H in a Triple threat match to win the WWE Championship, his first World Heavyweight Championship reign in WWE.

• December 9, 1974 - Jack Brisco defeated Shohei Baba for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• December 9, 2001 - Chris Jericho became the first WWF Undisputed Champion after beating Steve Austin to win the WWF Championship and defeating The Rock to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• December 10, 1973 - Bruno Sammartino defeated Stan Stasiak for the WWWF Heavyweight Chamspionship.
• December 13, 2003 - Danny Maff defeated Jerry Lawler to win the Jersey All Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Championship.
• December 14, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated The Crusher for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• December 14, 2001 - Russ Haas died of a heart attack at age 27.
• December 15, 2002 - Kurt Angle defeated The Big Show for the WWE Championship.
• December 17, 1999 - Masato Tanaka defeated Mike Awesome to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
• December 20, 1999 - Bret Hart won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Goldberg.

Enjoy the final 2008 issue of the WP:PW newsletter and have a very happy holiday season, from WP:PW!

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• Lockdown (2008) (review page) and Over the Edge (1999) (review page) were promoted to Featured article status.
• List of WWF Light Heavyweight Champions (review page) was promoted to Featured list status.
• List of WWE Divas Champions and List of WWE Cruiserweight Champions (review page) were added and removed, respectively, from the Lists of World Wrestling Entertainment champions Featured topic.

• Masa Saito, No Mercy (2004), Slammiversary (2008), Survivor Series (1992), Survivor Series (2007), The Undertaker, and World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) are current Good article nominees.
• Night of Champions (2008) (review page), Royal Rumble (1993) (review page), and The Simpsons Wrestling (review page) were promoted to Good article status.
• Hardy Boyz (review page) was promoted to Good topic status.

• Darren Matthews (review page) is currently under Peer review.
• The WikiProject Professional wrestling collaboration has been archived as a historical project assessment.

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

1. When expanding pay-per-view articles, avoid using wrestling jargon without an explanation, per WP:JARGON, maintain an out-of-universe perspective of the article, per WP:IN-U, and avoid writing in excess detail, per WP:PLOT. For further information see WP:PW/PPVG.
2. Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
3. Per WP:MOSCAPS, television shows, such as RAW and iMPACT!, should be written as Raw and Impact!.
4. Due to a new consensus formed by Misplaced Pages users, dates should be unlinked in all articles, per WP:MOSNUM.
5. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Misplaced Pages. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
6. Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again, unless the length of the article requires it to be linked a second time. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.

• There are currently 617 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			5	6	11
	FL			12	12	24
	GA		6	31	73	110
	B	1	17	68	199	285
	C		2	16	100	118
	Start	2	53	226	1791	2072
	Stub		2	25	579	606
	List		2	22	592	616
	Future			4	14	18
	Assessed	3	82	409	3366	3860
	Total	3	82	409	3366	3860

• Based on the members list, there are currently 208 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of January:
• 11 - TNA presents Genesis
• 12 - Inuyasha73036's birthday
• 16 - ROH presents Rising Above
• 21 - Suriel1981's birthday
• 25 - WWE presents Royal Rumble
• 29 - 3bulletproof16's birthday
• 31 - Nahallac's birthday

• Articles for Deletion
  • Deleted: Chris Bang, Blackjack Parsons, and Vince Verhei.
  • Kept: TNA Weekly PPV
• Images for Deletion
  • Deleted: File:Jillian Hall about to use Samoan Drop on Candice Michelle.jpg and File:Jillian Hall doing cartwheel into an elbow drop.jpg.
• Miscellany for Deletion
  • Current: Wikiproject Professional wrestling/Calender

• On December 22:
  • On Raw, Trish Stratus wrestled her first match in over two years in her native Toronto, Canada. She and John Cena defeated Santino Marella and Beth Phoenix in a Tag team match.
  • It was reported by World Wrestling Entertainment that Batista was sidelined with a hamstring tear that required surgery.
  • Maryse defeated Michelle McCool to win the WWE Divas Championship on an episode of Friday Night SmackDown, which aired on December 26.
• On December 26:
  • Independent Wrestling Association's Roland Montgomery, known as Rollin' Hard, died at his home in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • WWE Divas Champion Maryse dislocated her kneecap at a WWE live event; it is unknown how long the injury will sideline her from in-ring competition.
• World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) moved Paul Burchill and Katie Lea from the Raw brand to the ECW brand on December 30.
• On January 2, U.S. Senator Henry Waxman filed a letter to the Office of National Drug Control Policy requesting a review of professional wrestling's steroid testing and usage.

• December 22, 2000 - Mike Rapada defeated Sabu to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• December 23, 1999 - Mike Awesome defeated Masato Tanaka to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
• December 26, 1983 - The Iron Sheik defeated Bob Backlund for the WWF Heavyweight Championship.
• December 28, 1997 - Sting defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight Championship
• December 29, 1998 - Mankind defeated The Rock to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship.
• January 3, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Big Show for the WWF Heavyweight Championship.
• January 4, 1999 - Keiji Mutoh defeated Scott Norton for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

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