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[edit] Buyrate

Is the buyrate field really necessary? I mean usually WWE never releases the correct figure and those who don't even have a clue begin to speculate and add a figure based on POV. It could decrease internet trolling and potential vandalism by a wide margin. --3bulletproof16 16:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

The field is optional. There is no reason not to have it. McPhail 21:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I think we should get rid of it, it does nothing to help articles. TJ Spyke 19:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

It does nothing to "help" articles? Buyrates are virtually the only neutral indicator of the success of a PPV. McPhail 00:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Its cool but I just want you to know that none of the numbers on your website or any other web site are reliable as they all differ in the actual number. See...

I hope that now you understand that the buyrates listed on websites are never accurate or even half accurate. That's why the section on the template has no use unless you want to invite vandals to add their nonsense. --3bulletproof16 03:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

WWE releases buyrates in their financial reports. McPhail 00:10, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Do they state what part of their buyrates is domestic and what part is international? Since neither source is reliable the field has no use, unless you welcome trollism. -- bulletproof 3:16 00:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
They don't need to. The gross revenue can be added if the breakdown is unavailable. McPhail 00:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colours?

What's with those ugly green and red colours that are there when information is not included. They shouldn't be there. If you leave a peramitor blank, it should dissapear, just like every other template box that I've seen. I would do this myself, but I'm not sure how to program something like this, and I also need some consensus on the matter. ---SilentRAGE! 20:49, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

You are not the only one seeing them, me and 3Bulletproof see them as well. I don't know why they started showing up recently, it's really annoying seeing them on PPV's. TJ Spyke 18:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buyrates, again

I can't believe buyrates are being left out of this template. Buyrates, attendance, injuries and title changes are the most encyclopedic info most wrestling event articles can have; everything else is just a recap of semi-fictional events.

I'd like to point out that on those three sites listed above, the first two agree with each other completely, as far as I can tell, and also agree with the "initial buys" column on the third link. (That third link's data is listed per thousands of homes -- multiply each 1.0 buyrate by 400,000 and you'll see that they're almost spot-on to it.) What's even more concrete are the "final buys" on the third site -- look at the bottom of the page. They're getting the data directly from WWE Corporate.

Here is a link to the latest WWE Corporate financial data: http://corporate.wwe.com/investors/documents/KeyBusinessDrivers_115.pdf Page 4 has a graph of the events from 2006 and 2007, and is dated March 6, 2008.

To say that this might be incorrect is almost absurd. WWE, Inc. is a publicly traded company. They have no reason to report anything but the truth. If they were to manipulate the numbers in any way, they would be inviting complete ruin on themselves as their stock plummeted.

Also, I don't understand this question: "Do they state what part of their buyrates is domestic and what part is international?" What does it matter? How does that affect our listing of the numbers? Can't we just list the overall buyrate? I don't see why not.

As far as "trolling" goes, what makes it more vulnerable or attractive than any other piece of info in Wikipedia? Especially for events that happened ten or twenty years ago? As long as we wait at least 6 months after current events before listing the final reported buyrate, with citations, I don't see a problem. TravelingCat (talk) 07:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC)