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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVIII — June 1, 2008

Project News

Backlash (2006), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), and Survivor Series (2005) have been elevated to Good Article status.

SummerSlam (2007) (link) and SummerSlam (1988) (link) have been nominated for Featured Article status.

Backlash (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Paul London, Royal Rumble (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here.

Current Events

Darren Matthews (William Regal) was suspended by WWE for 60 days for breaching the Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy.

The 2008 WWE Draft was announced by World Wrestling Entertainment chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008.

At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H.

Also, at One Night Stand, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe forced to leave WWE.

The Month in Wrestling History

May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge.
May 21, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title.
May 22, 2000 - Vince Russo stripped Ric Flair of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and awarded it to Jeff Jarret.
May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack.
May 19, 2004 - Ron Killings won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It 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
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	15	39	58
	B	1	13	57	203	274
	Start	2	52	221	2331	2606
	Stub		1	23	600	624
	Assessed	3	71	323	3191	3588
	Total	3	71	323	3191	3588

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
- 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
- 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
- 29 - CJMiller's birthday
- 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for May 25 through June 7 is Rick Rude. The Featured article collaboration is Carly Colón. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, June 8.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current:
Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom.
Redirected:
Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10.

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