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Welcome to WikiProject Professional wrestling. This project was formed in March 2005 to better organize information in articles related to professional wrestling. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please see the to-do list on the talk page.

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[edit] Information

[edit] Scope and Goals

  1. To create and edit featured article quality professional wrestling articles on Wikipedia, with the intent of making Wikipedia an accurate and valued reference for pro wrestling information.
  2. To keep articles encyclopedic in nature.
  3. To establish a uniform style for wrestler biographies, wrestling events and wrestling promotions.

[edit] Participants

User WikiProject ProWrestling
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Anyone interested in joining and participating in this WikiProject is free to do so. Just add your user name to the members list. Optionally, you may indicate your participation in this WikiProject by adding the userbox {{subst:User WikiProject ProWrestling}} to your user page, shown on the right.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Project forums and sub-pages

  • Project talk page - General discussion about the WikiProject and its articles.
  • Calendar - Calendar for the WikiProject
  • Templates - Infoboxes, template messages and navigation boxes for use in WikiProject related articles.
  • Strategy - Current tasks of the WikiProject

[edit] Style guide

Below is a guide to creating professional wrestling articles established by consensus among participants of this WikiProject. Please discuss this guide on the talk page if you have any ideas about how to fine tune these guidelines.

[edit] General

  • The phrase "the late" should be removed before the names now deceased wrestlers.
  • Apply proper capitalization and wording to headings. The headings should follow normal English sentence capitalization rules with the first word capitalized, with the rest being lower case, unless requiring capitalisation for a specific reason, e.g. proper nouns, acronyms, etc. The slash character should be used as little as possible. Use "and" or "or" instead.

[edit] Professional wrestler biographies

This is the formatting used when creating or editing a professional wrestler article:

First add a lead paragraph about the wrestler, then

== Profile ==
*Height: 
*Weight: 
*Birthday:
*Hometown: 
*Trained by: 
*Debut: 
*Previous identities:
*Finishing and signature move(s): 

Add metric conversions for all wrestler heights and weights, including 
new entries. Make sure feet and inches are represented as "ft"
and "in" and pounds are listed as "lb". 

Note that SI weight should be rounded to the nearest kilogram
and height should be rounded to the nearest centimeter.

(If a large number of items is in any of the sections,
place them into a subsection)

== Career ==
Summarize the career of the wrestler, but make sure you leave it to major 
events and key points. Try not to include week-by-week synopsis of 
what that wrestler did on whatever show they're on.

== Finishing and signature moves == 
::*'''[[Finishing move without a special name]]''' 
::*Moonsault
::*[[Signature move without a special name]] 
::*Dropkick
::*'''''Finishing move with a special name''''' ([[Regular name for move]]) 
::*Western Lariat (Lariat) 
::*''Signature move with a special name'' ([[Regular name for move]]) 
::*Orange Crush (Vertical suplex powerbomb)

Then add the following categories: [[Category:(Insert nationality here, American, Canadian, etc.) professional wrestlers]], [[Category:(Insert birth year) births]] and [[Category:Living people]] if the wrestler is still alive. If the article becomes long and the profile section interrupts the flow of the text, you may want to convert the profile section to use {{Infobox Wrestler}}. Remove commas to lists in statsboxes, to ring names and trainers, unless the name or gimmick takes up more than one line. But remember to keep the line changes. So "Name 1,<br />Name 2" becomes "Name 1<br />Name 2"

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

Championships and accomplishments are to be followed like in this example:

Please note that:

  1. The name of the promotion is in bold.
  2. The part proceeding the championship/accomplishment name (i.e. 2 times, 4 time, 2005, 2006) are linking to the list of champions for that accomplishment.
  3. Accomplishments (like King of the Ring and Royal Rumble) come after Championship title belts (like the WWE Championship and the World Tag Team Championship).
  4. If an accomplishment (like the Royal Rumble or King of the Ring) is accomplished twice, that it is listed in chronological order (see example above).

[edit] Professional wrestling events

When writing professional wrestling shows there are a few important rules to follow:

  • Add the {{Infobox Wrestling event}} to the top of the article and fill in the details.
  • Before writing any matches out state the date, venue, location and theme song (if applicable).
  • Results and match previews should be written in dot points, not breaks.
  • When writing upcoming show matches, only gimmick matches and championships go in bold. Participants remain in normal font.
  • When writing results, the match result should be in bold, followed by a second point (**) on any notable points in the match. If there are no notable points, refer to point 2

[edit] Wrestling maneuver pages

  • Change "attacker" to "wrestler" and "victim" to "opponent" in move articles.

[edit] Warnings

Warning notes to editors may be included in sections that are subject to constant, unnecessary or unencyclopedic change. Remember, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dedicated professional wrestling site.

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[edit] Good articles

Good articles may help set an example for users editing other professional wrestling articles. Here is a list of good articles related to professional wrestling:

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