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As part of the project's 2009 New Year's Resolutions, there was an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of January 2, we are at 10.14%, with 476 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.
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.
Sheik Abdul Bashir won one of the Feast or Fired briefcases, which was revealed to have the pinkslip in it. This storyline was put in place so Bashir could legitimately leave TNA.
Roxxi broke her ankle in two places at the Impact! taping on December 21.
On December 22, TNA announced they had signed a deal with Setanta Sports Africa to air Impact! and pay-per-views in several African countries.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
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.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
Happy Christmas and new year from WikiProject Eurovision.
This is the second edition of the newsletter to be in a bimonthly format. This will probably continue at least up until the next Eurovision Song Contest when the project is more active.
Editors are reminded that some articles covered WikiProject Eurovision are subject to the biographies of living persons policy. This does not just include biography articles such as Alexander Rybak, but any article with material related to living persons. Such information is highly sensitive, and unsourced or poorly sourced material about living persons must be removed immediately. Material which may seen trivial to editors, such as a false claim of participation in a contest, can potentially be highly sensitive to the living persons involved.
Eurovision articles on this project have been repeatedly subject to a form of sneaky vandalism. This involves unregistered users adding false information to articles such as Eurovision Song Contest 2010 (while unprotected). These false claims are then made to look legitimate through the use of "fake references" with false titles and links, example. Cuchufleta (talk·contribs) was blocked indefinitely for creating multiple hoax articles with the same editing technique. Editors are advised to look out for further disruption of this kind, as it seems to be originating from a determined individial or an organised group. More information can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#User:Cuchufleta.
Eurovision News
The EBU released their participants list for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest on 31 December 2009. 39 countries will take part. Five of these qualify directly to the final, with the 34 remaining countries each competing in one of two semi-finals (seventeen per semi-final).
Five countries have declared they will be withdrawing from the contest in 2010. The Czech Republic are withdrawing due to three semi-final failures and a lack of interest from Czech viewers. Andorra, Hungary, Lithuania, and Montenegro have all declared they are withdrawing for financial reasons.
Georgia is the only country that has declared it will be returning to the contest.
No debuts are planned either with Liechtenstein's only broadcaster 1FLTV having ruled out joining the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for December 2009. This made a debut by the country for the 2010 Contest no longer possible.
Despite the 2010 Contest being many months away countries are now actively declaring which artists and songs will be representing them at the contest. A table for this can be found at Eurovision Song Contest 2010#Participants. Nearly all of the declared participants now have dedicated entry articles.
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter!
Another decade has past for the Eurovision Song Contest. The naughties will probably be remembered as a decade of both success and controversy for the contest.
Televoting reached its peak in the early 2000s. This gave the contest a more democratic edge, but by 2008 it was widely believed to have made Eurovision resemble a political and geographic football match rather than a song contest. The EBU took action in 2009 by reducing televoting to having only a 50% weighting in the results of each contest.
Many new countries have joined the contest in the last decade, bringing the number of participants to a new high. Among this some countries withdrew while others returned, though one of the major missing countries, Italy, did not make a return as was hoped by many.
There was not a shortage of controversy either. Two participants went to war, and the buzz over the planned participation of Kosovo put Eurovision in the middle of a political storm. One also cannot forget that this decade saw the introduction of two spin-off contests - the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the Eurovision Dance Contest. It is still not fully clear on how these fit into this project, perhaps we will work that out during the tens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
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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