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As of October 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			24	30	54
	GA		10	53	99	162
	B	6	19	87	231	343
	C	1	7	57	253	318
	Start	7	48	287	1995	2337
	Stub			19	509	528
	List		3	28	585	616
	Future			5	8	13
	Assessed	14	88	567	3713	4382
	Total	14	88	567	3713	4382

—Articles

• Well Dunn (review page) is a current Featured article candidate.
• Gregory Helms, Michelle McCool, TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship, and TNA Women's Knockout Championship are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page in the Did you know? column?
  • September 30: Trafford Tanzi
  • October 1: List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions
  • October 2: Dukes Dalton
  • October 8: Misterioso, Jr.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: Beverly Mullins and TNM (video game).
  • Files for deletion
    • Current: File:Braggingrights2009a.JPG
• Requested moves
  • Current: Vince McMahon to Vince McMahon, Jr. (discussion)
  • Moved: Vincent J. McMahon to Vince McMahon, Sr. (discussion) - Note: was later moved back to Vincent J. McMahon

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of October 21, we are at 11.96%, with 524 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 has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• On October 2, the project reached its goal of 150 DYKs, and the number has continued to rise. Congratulations to everyone who helped in achieving this goal.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 233 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 October.

• 18 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Bound for Glory
• 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Bragging Rights

• Shinsuke Nakamura won the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Championship on September 27 by defeating Togi Makabe.
• Lizmark, Jr. left Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Charly Manson left Asistencia Asesoría y Administración to join Perro Aguayo, Jr.'s Perros del Mal promotion.
• The Perros del Mal promotion announced a television deal with Televisa Canal 9.
• On the September 29 episode of ECW, William Regal was announced as the interim general manager, as Tiffany had been injured in a kayfabe car crash. This storyline was put in place as Tiffany suffered a broken humerus at the Florida Championship Wrestling television tapings on September 24, but she was able to return to television on the October 6 episode of ECW.
• Lacey Von Erich made her TNA debut on the October 1 episode of Impact!.
• On October 2, Ken Anderson won the Nu-Wrestling Evolution World Heavyweight Championship in Malta, by defeating Chuck Palumbo and Tiny Iron in a three-way match.
• At Hell in a Cell on October 4:
  • The Undertaker won the World Heavyweight Championship by defeating CM Punk in a Hell in a Cell match.
  • Randy Orton won the WWE Championship in a Hell in a Cell match by defeating John Cena.
• On the October 5 episode of Raw, The Miz defeated Kofi Kingston to win the WWE United States Championship.
• Asistencia Asesoría y Administración announced a deal with Playmates Toys to manufacture a range of action figures and masks on October 6. The range will be launched in late 2010.
• On the October 8 episode of Impact!, Amazing Red defeated Samoa Joe to win the TNA X Division Championship.

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

1. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Misplaced Pages. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Please remember that wikipedia is not a crystal ball, and do not add speculation about future events to articles.
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 and is neutral.

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As of October 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			24	30	54
	GA		10	56	96	162
	B	6	19	88	233	346
	C	1	8	58	263	330
	Start	7	48	290	2004	2349
	Stub			17	505	522
	List		3	29	589	621
	Future			5	8	13
	Assessed	14	89	569	3723	4395
	Total	14	89	569	3723	4395

—Articles

• Well Dunn (review page) was not promoted to Featured article status; however, it has been renominated as a Featured article candidate here.
• Mexican National Welterweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Adam Copeland, Gregory Helms, Jason Reso, Michelle McCool, Rosey and The Hurricane, TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship, and TNA Women's Knockout Championship are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
  • October 12: La Parka (AAA)
  • October 13: Women Superstars Uncensored
  • October 17: Rhett Titus
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion
    • Current: Angela Fong, Impact Pro Wrestling, Jenna Palmer, Karlee Perez, World Wrestling Coalition (2nd nomination), and Zivile Raudoniene.
    • Deleted: Beverly Mullins, List of nicknames of pro wrestlers, TNM (video game), Trinity McCray, and Tyrone Evans.
  • Files for deletion
    • Deleted: File:Braggingrights2009a.JPG
• Requested moves
  • Current: WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs to TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (discussion)
  • Not moved: Vince McMahon to Vince McMahon, 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 10%. As of October 25, we are at 11.79%, with 520 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 has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 234 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 October and November.

• 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Bragging Rights
• 6 - Dragon Gate USA presents Untouchable
• 15 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Turning Point
• 22 - WWE presents Survivor Series

• On the October 12 episode of Raw, Jillian Hall won the WWE Divas Championship by defeating Mickie James, but lost the championship to Melina immediately afterwards.
• "Captain" Lou Albano died at the age of 76 on October 14.
• On October 15 it was announced that WWE had signed Barri Griffiths, a Welsh professional wrestler and former Gladiator, to a developmental contract.
• On October 16, Shane McMahon announced that he was retiring from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), effective as of January 1, 2010.
• At Bound for Glory on October 18:
  • Eric Young won the TNA Legends Championship by defeating the defending champion Kevin Nash and Hernandez in a three way match.
  • Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a four way Full Metal Mayhem match. In the same match, The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) won the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
  • Daffney suffered a broken arm after taking a bump during the match between Mick Foley and Abyss.
• On October 20, it was reported that Nigel McGuinness had signed with TNA. He made his debut on the October 22 episode of Impact! as "Desmond Wolfe".
• Chris Sabin suffered a stinger at the Impact! taping on October 21.
• On October 23, it was reported that Lance Cade had re-signed with WWE.

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. 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. Trivia sections are discouraged in[REDACTED] articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
4. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
5. 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.

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