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As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	103		175
	B	6	21	83	246		356
	C	1	8	66	295		370
	Start	7	51	286	2160		2504
	Stub			15	451		466
	List		3	30	644	1	678
	Future			4	8		12
	Assessed	14	96	575	3942	1	4628
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	14	96	575	3942	3	4630

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Nick Nemeth, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) has failed its Good article nomination but has been nominated for a Good article reassessment here.
• The following article appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
  • January 7: Billy Sandow
  • January 16: Jim White (wrestler)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Deleted: Dynamite Chris Hart

—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 January 17, we are at 10.06%, with 466 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 235 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 January.

• 17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
• 22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
• 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

• On January 4:
  • WWE confirmed Tommy Dreamer's departure from the company, after his final match and farewell speech on the December 29 episode of ECW.
  • WWE announced that Melina had vacated the WWE Divas Championship due to injury, and set up a tournament to determine the new champion.
  • TNA held their first live edition of Impact! to compete against Raw, which featured:
    • Returns from wrestlers including Jeff Hardy, Shannon Moore, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman, as well as the debuts of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Eric Bischoff.
    • ODB defeating Tara to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
    • Hamada and Awesome Kong defeating Talyor Wilde and Sarita to win the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship.
  • At Wrestle Kingdom IV:
    • No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating the former champions, Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), and Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard) in a three-way hardcore match.
    • Naomichi Marufuji defeated Tiger Mask IV to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
• On January 6, Mascara Dorada, Metro, and Stuka, Jr. defeated Dragón Rojo, Jr., Misterioso II, and Sangre Azteca in a tournament final to win the vacant Mexican National Trios Championship.
• On January 8, Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
• On January 9:
  • It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a developmental contract.
  • It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
• On January 10:
  • It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
  • Former wrestler Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.
  • Dr. Cerebro defeated Tetsuya Bushi to win the IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship.
• K-Ness defeated Naoki Tanisaki to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship on January 11.
• On January 14, The Fortunate Sons (Brett DiBiase and Joe Hennig defeated The Dudebusters (Caylen Croft, Trent Barreta, and Curt Hawkins) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.
• The Evolve promotion held their first show on January 16.

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As of January 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	218		1	338
B	11	40	147	360		4	562
C	9	53	310	1,843		48	2,263
Start	2	46	331	5,264		138	5,781
Stub			2	300	1	30	333
List		2	67	1,212		40	1,321
Category				3	1,256		1,259
Disambig					25		25
File					240		240
Redirect		1	11	114	275		401
Template					260		260
NA					114		114
Other					10		10
Draft					6		6
Assessed	22	155	1,006	9,365	2,187	261	12,996
Unassessed				2		3	5
Total	22	155	1,006	9,367	2,187	264	13,001
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 42,317			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Nemeth, ROH World Television Championship, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay is undergoing a Good article reassessment here.
• Rated-RKO (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? section of the main page:
  • January 19: Metro (wrestler)
  • January 21: Eric Holmback
  • January 24: Dr. Wagner and Ángel Blanco
  • January 28: Ida Mae Martinez
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
    • Deleted: The Straight Edge Society

—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 January 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 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 235 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 January and February.

• January:
  • 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble
• February:
  • 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
  • 21 - WWE presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 17:
  • WWE announced the release of Eric Escobar from his contract.
  • At TNA's Genesis pay-per-view event on January 17:
    • TNA discontinued their six-sided wrestling ring and reintroduced their four-sided ring.
    • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB in a two out of three falls match.
    • Matt Morgan and Hernandez defeated The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
    • Brian Kendrick and Mr. Anderson made their return and debut, respectively, to TNA.
• Ida Mae Martinez died on January 19 at the age of 78.
• On January 20:
  • Ring of Honor announced the creation of the ROH World Television Championship. A tournament will be held to determine the inaugural champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on February 5 and 6.
  • The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
• On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
• On January 23:
  • Da Heavy Hitters (Monsta Mack and Havok) won the JAPW Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
  • Davey Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki at the DGUSA Fearless pay-per-view taping.
• On January 27:
  • Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
  • It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
  • On January 28, Doug Williams defeated Amazing Red to win the TNA X Division Championship.

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2. 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 February 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	218		1	338
B	11	40	147	360		4	562
C	9	53	310	1,843		48	2,263
Start	2	46	331	5,264		138	5,781
Stub			2	300	1	30	333
List		2	67	1,212		40	1,321
Category				3	1,256		1,259
Disambig					25		25
File					240		240
Redirect		1	11	114	275		401
Template					260		260
NA					114		114
Other					10		10
Draft					6		6
Assessed	22	155	1,006	9,365	2,187	261	12,996
Unassessed				2		3	5
Total	22	155	1,006	9,367	2,187	264	13,001
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 42,317			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, Nick Nemeth, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) was not promoted to Good article status after a Good article reassessment, and was renominated as a Good article nominee. It has since passed.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • January 31: Mascarita Dorada
  • February 5: OVW Heavyweight Championship
  • February 8: ROH World Television Championship
  • February 13: Frankie Arion
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: WWE NXT
    • Deleted: AWS Heavyweight Championship, Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts
• Requested moves:
  • Moved:
    • Demonio Azul to Blue Demon (discussion)
    • Demonio Azul, Jr. to Blue Demon, Jr. (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 February 14, we are at 10.07%, with 472 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 236 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 February.

• 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
• 21 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 31:
  • Tim Donst defeated Player Dos to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup.
  • At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 31:
    • Mickie James won the WWE Women's Championship by defeating Michelle McCool.
    • Edge made his return after injury to win the Royal Rumble match.
    • Beth Phoenix became only the second woman in history to enter the Royal Rumble match.
• Jack Brisco died on February 1 at the age of 68.
• On the February 2 episode of ECW, Vince McMahon announced that ECW will be coming to an end. It will be replaced with a program called WWE NXT, which will debut on March 2.
• In early february it was announced that Canadian indepedent promotions Border City Wrestling and BSE Pro have merged to form Maximum Pro Wrestling.
• Independent wrestler Human Tornado announced his retirement on February 4.
• On the February 8 episode of Raw, The Miz and The Big Show won the WWE Unified Tag Team Championship by defeating the reigning champions D-Generation X and CM Punk and Luke Gallows in a triple threat match.
• Retired Canadian professional wrestler Charles Baillargeon died on February 10 following a stroke at the age of 92.
• On February 11, ROH announced that their television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling, would begin airing on Dahlia TV in Italy.
• Tyler Black won the ROH World Championship for the first time at ROH's 8th Anniversary Show on February 13 by defeating Austin Aries.

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

1. The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to when adding to information to biography articles.

• Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
• 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 February 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	218		1	338
B	11	40	147	360		4	562
C	9	53	310	1,843		48	2,263
Start	2	46	331	5,264		138	5,781
Stub			2	300	1	30	333
List		2	67	1,212		40	1,321
Category				3	1,256		1,259
Disambig					25		25
File					240		240
Redirect		1	11	114	275		401
Template					260		260
NA					114		114
Other					10		10
Draft					6		6
Assessed	22	155	1,006	9,365	2,187	261	12,996
Unassessed				2		3	5
Total	22	155	1,006	9,367	2,187	264	13,001
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 42,317			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Debra Marshall, Derick Neikirk (review page), Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Scott Hudson (announcer)
    • Deleted: Monster Mack (2nd nomination) and Mountain Wrestling Association.
    • Kept: Naoki Sano and WWE NXT.
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Current: Professional wrestlers by century
    • Renamed: Pay-per-views and Wrestling navboxes.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:Mr. Money in the Bank
• Requested moves:
  • Current: WWE The Bash to WWE The Great American Bash (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 February 28, we have dipped below 10% for the first time at 9.93%, with 469 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 238 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 March.

• 5 - Dragon Gate USA presents Fearless
• 12 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Rey de Reyes
• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Destination X
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI

• Negro Casas defeated Hijo del Fantasma to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship on February 14.
• On February 15, TNA announced that TNA Impact! will be moving to a Monday night timeslot to compete against WWE Raw.
• On February 16:
  • Dave Taylor was announced as the new TNA agent.
  • On the final episode of ECW:
    • Ezekiel Jackson won the ECW Championship by defeating Christian in an Extreme Rules match.
    • The eight FCW wrestlers who will be competing on WWE NXT were announced as Daniel Bryan, Justin Gabriel, Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, Darren Young, David Otunga, and Michael Tarver.
• On February 17, it was announced that New Japan Pro Wrestling competitor, Kazuchika Okada had begun working for TNA.
• At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on February 21:
  • Chris Jericho won the World Heavyweight Championship by winning an Elimination Chamber match.
  • John Cena won an Elimination Chamber match to win the WWE Championship. Immediately after the match, however, he was defeated by Batista for the championship.
  • Sheamus O'Shaunessy suffered a concussion during his WWE championship defense in an Elimination Chamber match.
• On the February 22 episode of Raw, Maryse defeated Gail Kim in the finals of a tournament to win the WWE Divas Championship.
• The inaugural episode of NXT aired on Syfy on February 23.
• TNA announced a pay-per-view deal with the Extreme Sports Channel in the United Kingdom on February 25. The first pay-per-view to be broadcast as part of the deal will be Destination X.
• On February 26:
  • World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced they had released wrestlers Gregory Helms, Paul Burchill, and Maria from their contracts, along with referee, Scott Armstrong.
  • On SmackDown, Michelle McCool defeated Mickie James to win the WWE Women's Championship.
• Davey Richards defeated Kenny Omega on February 27 to win the PWG World Championship.

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

1. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 New Year's Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
2. 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.
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. Misplaced Pages is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.
5. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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As of March 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	218		1	338
B	11	40	147	360		4	562
C	9	53	310	1,843		48	2,263
Start	2	46	331	5,264		138	5,781
Stub			2	300	1	30	333
List		2	67	1,212		40	1,321
Category				3	1,256		1,259
Disambig					25		25
File					240		240
Redirect		1	11	114	275		401
Template					260		260
NA					114		114
Other					10		10
Draft					6		6
Assessed	22	155	1,006	9,365	2,187	261	12,996
Unassessed				2		3	5
Total	22	155	1,006	9,367	2,187	264	13,001
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 42,317			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) and NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Debra Marshall, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: High-flyer wrestler, List of CZW events, MXW Pro Wrestling, Sarona Snuka, T-bone Funk, and Tiger Raj Singh.
    • Deleted: Johnny Rich, Lutta corsa, and Scott Hudson (announcer).
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Current: Category:Flagship professional wrestling pay-per-view events by promotion
    • Deleted: Professional wrestlers by century
• Requested moves:
  • Current: Matthew Kaye to Matt Striker (discussion).
  • Moved: WWE The Bash to WWE The Great American Bash (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 March 14, we are at 9.78%, with 463 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 241 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 March.

• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Destination X
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI

• On February 28, WWE announced that Charlie Haas had been released from his contract.
• The inaugural episode of Wrestlicious Takedown aired on March 1.
• On March 4:
  • Angelo Poffo died at the age of 84.
  • TNA released Traci Brooks from her contract.
• On March 5:
  • Eddie Edwards became the inaugural ROH World Television Champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, by defeating his tag team partner Davey Richards in a tournament final.
  • It was reported that Sean Morley and Roxxi had been released from their TNA contracts.
• Tigre Cota and Tito Santana II defeated Angel Dorado, Jr. and Sky (c) to win the AAA Northern Tag Team Championship on March 7.
• On March 8:
  • On TNA Impact!:
    • The TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship was vacated. The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) defeated Sarita and Taylor Wilde and Angelina Love and Tara in a triple threat tag team match to win the vacant championship.
    • Rob Van Dam made his debut.
  • Jillian Beyor was released from her World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) developmental contract.
• On March 10, Ring of Honor (ROH) announced the creation of a downloadable DVD website, which will allow fans to download out-of-stock DVD titles.
• On March 11:
  • John Hill, better known as Jerry Valiant, died,
  • Sandy Scott died at the age of 75 due to pancreatic cancer.
• On March 12, Women Superstars Uncensored announced a television deal with with The Fight Network and InASecTV.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
5. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".

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