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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXII — August 3, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates.
- Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status.
- SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination.

Other project news
- Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here.

This Month in Wrestling History

July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship.
June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71.
July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion.
July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship.
August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. 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	6	15	22
	GA		5	20	56	81
	B	1	15	67	203	286
	C		1	10	60	71
	Start	2	49	203	1735	1989
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	351	3246	3674
	Total	3	74	351	3246	3674

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of July:
  - 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
  - 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
  - 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
  - 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday
  - 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
  - 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
  - 27 - Sundogs' birthday
  - 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
  - 31 - Normy's birthday
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

Recommendation

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Just a suggestion, I think that if you want people to take you seriously, you should totally cut down your userpage into anything necessary, because it's too long and messy and looks too myspacey. -- iMatthew _T.C. 01:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion: Ask User:RyRy for a userpage makeover. -- iMatthew _T.C. 21:09, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

You are still editing too much in the userspace. Your mainspace is getting better, but remember to stay away from userspace. -- iMatthew _T.C. 21:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Ask away. -- iMatthew _T.C. 21:41, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

It was a fair-use image, which means that you can only download them if absolutely necessary and it must be used only in mainspace, and must have a fair-use rationale. -- iMatthew _T.C. 00:22, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

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The WPVG Newsletter (August 2008)

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The Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 5 - July 2008

Archive before | Archive After

To receive future editions of this newsletter, click here to sign up on the distribution list.

Project At a Glance

As of July 2008, the project has:

16 A-Class articles
231 Good Articles
1 articles in Good Article Review
11 articles for Peer review

Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics

Promoted FA/FL:

Flood (Halo), List of songs in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, List of voice actors in the Grand Theft Auto series, Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Topic:

Devil May Cry (series), Super Smash Bros. (series)

Demoted FA/FL:

None

Promoted GA:

Devil May Cry 4, Final Fantasy III, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Guitar Hero: On Tour, Halo 2 Original Soundtrack, Halo: The Flood, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, WWE SmackDown (video game series)

Demoted GA:

RuneScape

News

There were 304 new articles in July 2008
Well, gee, thanks 1up!
1UP.com recently changed their rating scale. See discussion for details.
- The list of almost 700 articles has been checked and updated. Special thanks to MrKIA11, Dukeruckley, JFlav, FMF, and several other editors for checking the large number of articles.
Inactive project cleanup
Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tales of deleted.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Indie Game Developers deleted.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Arcade games moved to page under WP:VG. See new Arcade task force page.

Feature: Reliable Sources

A common issue with writing video games articles is that it's often natural for editors to turn to the internet for all their information. However, using only online sources can be problematic, especially if editors are not familiar with Wikipedia's sources guidelines. First off, for every notable, reliable web site about gaming that exists on the web, there are twenty-five fan sites or personal blogs. As per Wikipedia's, content guideline about reliable sources, a proper source that should be used in an article must meet the following criteria:

Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.

How do you determine if website X meets the criteria? Look around for information on who owns the website or if the website has a staff and established editorial processes; if the site doesn't have information posted online, send an email to the webmaster or editor. It can be hard to definitely prove the a website has a "reputation" for accuracy. Thus, it's probably easier to go with established sites to begin with, such as IGN or GameSpot. If you use a source with borderline qualifications, be prepared to justify the site at content review or to other editors. WikiProject Video Games has a partially-complete listing of vetted sources in print or online at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources, as well as more detailed information on what constitutes a reliable source.

To find sources on the internet, checking Google News as well as simple web searches can help spot references you might have missed. Often, however, older news articles are locked behind pay gates or subscription services. A workaround is using a service like ProQuest or LexisNexis, although unless you have access to these through a college or education institution it will likely cost you money regardless. Libraries can have old newspapers and copies of magazines; to assist in finding print sources online, WikiProject Video Games has a Magazines Department where you can contact users to get copies of certain reviews, previews, or features from old magazines. If you have gaming magazines of your own, add yourself to the list!

Things you can help with:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

Bejeweled Stars (1 participant)
Melee (game terminology) (2 participants)
Solo leveling: Unlimited (2 participants)
Game Sack (4 participants)
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters (4 participants; relisted)
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters (4 participants; relisted)
Araya (video game) (3 participants; relisted)
Chao (Sonic the Hedgehog) (8 participants; relisted)
Crazy Bus (11 participants; relisted)

Merge discussions

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An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:$R$WALogo.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)Reply