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As of April 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3	11
	FL			16	17	33
	GA		6	39	86	131
	B	1	22	74	219	316
	C		4	30	144	178
	Start	2	53	254	1902	2211
	Stub		1	22	491	514
	List		4	34	632	671
	Future			2	13	15
	Assessed	3	90	479	3507	4080
	Total	3	90	479	3507	4080

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• Over the Edge (1999) (review page) has been requested as Today's Featured Article for May 23.
• 2009 WWE Draft (review page) and List of ROH World Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• List of Mexican National Trios Champions (review page) has failed its Featured list nomination.
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.
• Adam Birch, Against All Odds (2005), Armageddon (2008), Ashley Massaro, Final Resolution (2005), MNM, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, Stephanie McMahon, and the TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• John Morrison and The Miz (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• Abismo Negro (review page) is currently under Peer Review.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:

• Articles for Deletion

• Current: UK Kid
• Deleted: Dave Scherer, Scott Van Raven, Sean Kustom, and World Tag Fighting Society.

• Templates for Deletion

• Deleted: Template:Paul London and Brian Kendrick

• A discussion to move WrestleMania XXV to 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania had no result. A discussion resulted in Matt Sydal being moved to Evan Bourne.

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• WP:PW is currently hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found here and all members are encouraged to get involved, with two weeks left to go.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 220 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 April and May.

• April:
  • 26 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Backlash
• May:
  • 17 - WWE presents Judgment Day
  • 24 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice

• WWE held it's seventh annual draft on the April 13 episode of Raw, in which 12 wrestlers were drafted to different brands.
• On April 15, the Japanese based promotion Dragon Gate announced it was expanding into the United States, with it's first show scheduled for July 25 in Philadelphia, Pennsylannia.
• On April 15, WWE held it's Supplemental Draft in which 24 wrestlers were drafted to different brands.
• On April 16:

• Daniel Covell returned to TNA television under his "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels character on Impact!.
• Superstars, a new WWE television series, debuted on WGN America in the United States.

• At Lockdown on April 19:

• Angelina Love defeated Taylor Wilde and defending champion Awesome Kong in a three way six sides of steel cage match to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
• Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship and retain the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a Philadelphia Street Fight.
• Mick Foley defeated defending champion Sting in a six sides of steel cage match to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
• Bobby Lashley made his TNA debut.

• On the April 23 episode of Impact!, William Mueller made his TNA debut as "Jethro Holliday".

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

1. 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
2. Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
3. 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. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
5. Adhere strictly to the Biographies of living persons policy when adding to information to biography articles.

1. Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
2. Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written from a non-point of view perspective.

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As of May 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3	11
	FL			17	17	34
	GA		6	42	85	133
	B	1	22	72	218	313
	C		5	34	145	184
	Start	2	53	259	1944	2258
	Stub		1	22	455	478
	List		4	32	637	674
	Future			2	11	13
	Assessed	3	91	488	3515	4098
	Total	3	91	488	3515	4098

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• Over the Edge (1999) (review page) has been requested as Today's Featured Article for May 23.
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.
• Adam Birch, Against All Odds (2005), Armageddon (2008), Bruno Lauer, The Fabulous Moolah, Final Resolution (2005), MNM, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, and the TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:

• Articles for Deletion

• Current: HWF
• Deleted: John Green (professional wrestler) and Matthew Granahan.
• Kept: UK Kid

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• Over the past month, WP:PW hosted the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. In one month, the number of stub-class articles was reduced from 562 (13.84% of the project's total articles) to 477 (11.64%). More work expanding stubs is always appreciated. See here for more information.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 221 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 May.

• 17 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Judgment Day
• 24 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice

• At Backlash on April 26:

• Christian defeated the defending champion Jack Swagger to win the ECW Championship in a singles match.
• Randy Orton won the WWE Championship in a six-man tag team match, as a result of his team, including Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, defeating the team of defending champion Triple H, Batista and Shane McMahon.
• Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Last Man Standing match by defeating defending champion John Cena.

• On April 28, "Playboy" Buddy Rose was found dead in his home in Vancouver, Washington. His death was later attributed to natural causes.
• On the April 30 episode of Impact!, Hernandez was written off television to undergo neck surgery.
• On May 2, Davey Richards won the Full Impact Pro World Heavyweight Championship, after the defending champion, Tyler Black, forfeited the title match due to an injury.
• On May 3, The Canadian Ninjas (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez) won the Shimmer Tag Team Championship by defeating Ashley Lane and Nevaeh; this match will be released on Shimmer Volume 26.
• On May 5:
  • Manabu Nakanishi won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, defeating the defending champion Hiroshi Tanahashi.
  • WWE signed April Jeanette, better known by her ring name Miss April, to a developmental contract.
• On May 8, WWE signed Fred Sampson to a developmental contract.
• TNA announced a new television show, TNA Epics, that will broadcast its inaugural show on May 15 on Bravo in the United Kingdom.

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

1. The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
2. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Misplaced Pages. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
3. When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
4. Please avoid adding rumors to articles. Most rumors cannot be sourced with a reliable source and go against the Biographies of living persons policy.
5. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.

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As of May 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3	11
	FL			17	18	35
	GA		6	43	86	135
	B	1	22	74	221	318
	C		5	33	145	183
	Start	2	53	260	1947	2262
	Stub		1	22	455	478
	List		4	32	638	675
	Future			2	10	12
	Assessed	3	91	491	3523	4109
	Total	3	91	491	3523	4109

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• Over the Edge (1999) appeared on the main page as Today's Featured Article for May 23.
• List of PWG World Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Birch, Armageddon (2008), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer, Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah, Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano, MNM, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Paul London and Brian Kendrick (review page) is a current Good topic candiate.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • May 12: John McMahon (wrestler)
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Ryu Lee
    • Deleted: Brian Cannon and HWF.

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• As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of May 10, we are at 11.64%, with 483 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source an improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 222 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 May and June.

• May:
  • 24 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice
• June:
  • 7 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules
  • 21 - TNA presents Slammiversary
  • 28 - WWE presents The Great American Bash

• On the May 12 episode of ECW on Sci Fi, Harry Smith made his ECW debut, using the ring name "David Hart Smith".
• On May 17:
  • Ric Flair returned to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) at Judgment Day.
  • Tyler Black defeated Jimmy Jacobs to become the Mr. Chainsaw Production Wrestling World Champion.
  • Lacey Von Erich was diagnosed with meningitis, after being taken to hospital with a constant migraine.
• On May 18:
  • WWE confirmed the rebranding of The Great American Bash to simply The Bash.
  • El Hijo del Santo returned to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración at their television tapings for the first time since 1995.
• Florida Championship Wrestling wrestler Fifi suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
• Due to a double booking of the Pepsi Center in Denver with a game from the NBA Playoffs, WWE announced on May 20 that the May 25 episode of Raw was to be moved to to the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
• On May 22
  • Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced that Shane Sewell had been released from his contract.
  • Chikara announced that the Young Lions Cup champion Equinox had suffered an ankle injury; he will be sidelined for approximately four weeks.

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

1. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
2. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
3. 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
5. Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.

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