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• No Way Out (2004) has been renominated for Featured Article status; its nomination can be found here.
• List of WCW Hardcore Champions has been nominated for Featured list status; its nomination can be found here.
• SummerSlam (2000) has been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. It's peer reviews can be found here.
• Ricky Banderas and SummerSlam (1994) have been elevated to Good article status.
• Ion Croitoru, Jos LeDuc, New Year's Revolution (2007), SummerSlam (2007), No Way Out (2007), Unforgiven (2005), WrestleMania X, Jeff Hardy, and Matt Hardy are currently Good article candidates.
• WikiProject Professional wrestling was the Featured Wikiproject in last week's edition of the Signpost. TJ Spyke, iMatthew, and Nikki311 have answered questions relating to the project here.

• Jeff Hardy was suspended by WWE for 60 days on March 11 for violating WWE's Substance Abuse and Drug Policy. On March 14, he lost his home in, Cameron, North Carolina, late friday night due to a fire. Fire Department officials currently cannot confirm what was the cause of the fire. Reports also say that Jeff's brother, Matt Hardy, saw smoke coming out of Jeff's house. RAW Commentator, Jim Ross, reports on his blog, "He lost essentially every thing he had and most sadly his dog".
• On March 14, Vince McMahon was honored into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Triple H: King of Kings-There is Only One, a WWE Home Video DVD, will be released on March 25, 2008.

• Current: Steven Galvan
• Kept:
• Deleted: Bryant Balmaceda, NWA Australian Championship, List of professional wrestling stables and tag teams.

The article collaboration for March 16 through March 30 is Big Show. The featured article collaboration is Kurt Angle. 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, March 30.

This week's interviewees are FamicomJL (link) and Naha (link).

• Next week's interviewees are Endlessdan and S-pac54. Submit a question to ask them here.

• Based on the members list, there are currently 356 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:
  • Mar. 25 - Kelan's birthday
  • Mar. 26 - Govvy's birthday
  • Mar. 29 - NimiTize's birthday
  • Mar. 30 - WWE presents WrestleMania XXIV

Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		5	16	39	60
	B	1	13	64	204	282
	Start	2	54	219	2353	2628
	Stub		1	24	603	628
	Assessed	3	74	330	3217	3624
	Total	3	74	330	3217	3624

Contributors to this Issue:

• iMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• NimiTize (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• SummerSlam (2007) (link) has been nominated for Featured Article status.
• Triple H has failed its Featured Article nomination. Its nom page can be found here.
• List of WCW Hardcore Champions has passed its Featured list nomination; its nomination can be found here.
• Backlash (2004) has been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Its peer review can be found here.
• Ion Croitoru, Jos LeDuc, New Year's Revolution (2007), No Way Out (2007), SummerSlam (2007), Unforgiven (2005), and WrestleMania X have been elevated to Good article status.
• Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Randy Orton, Stacy Keibler, and Vengeance (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

• At WrestleMania XXIV, Shawn Michaels defeated Ric Flair after executing the Sweet Chin Music, which as a result, meant that Ric Flair was forced to retire from professional wrestling. The next night, at Flair's retirement ceremony on Raw, Triple H congratulated Flair for his 35 year career, and brought out retired and current superstars to thank him. Michaels, and the whole WWE roster came out later to thank him as well.
• The Undertaker defeated Edge to become the new World Heavyweight Champion forcing him to submit to the Gogoplata. During the pyro celebration for Undertaker's 16-0 streak, a freak accident occurred just before WrestleMania went off-air. During the pryo shooting to the entrance stage, a firework went to the upper-level section of the crowd on top. Forty-five fans were injured, and currently, WWE is trying to investigate what was the cause of the pyrotechnic malfunction
• Cryme Tyme returned to WWE on March 31, during Raw, defeating Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch.
• Matt Hardy also returned on Raw, attacking Randy Orton from behind, and later having a match with Orton.

• Current: World Wrestling Professionals
• Kept: Dark Angel (wrestler)
• Deleted: Steven Galvan, A.W. Bulldog (wrestler), The Big Shemi, Ananzi (wrestler), Akilah (wrestler), Crybaby (wrestler), Don't Question My Heart

The article collaborations for March 30 through April 13 are Bash at the Beach (1996) and Mae Young. 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, April 13.

This week's interviewees are Endlessdan (link) and S-pac54 (link).

• Next week's interviewees are Straight Edge PXK and iMatthew. Submit a question to ask them here.

• Based on the members list, there are currently 363 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 39 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:
• 13 - TNA presents Lockdown
• 14 - ThinkBlue's birthday
• 20 - Adamaniac's and Killswitch Engage's birthdays
• 27 - WWE presents Backlash

Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		5	16	39	60
	B	1	13	64	204	282
	Start	2	54	219	2353	2628
	Stub		1	24	603	628
	Assessed	3	74	330	3217	3624
	Total	3	74	330	3217	3624

Contributors to this Issue:

• iMatthew (talk · contribs)
• LAX (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• RkOrton (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
• Zenlax (talk · contribs)

• SummerSlam (2007) has failed its Featured Article nomination; the discussion can be found here.
• Jeff Hardy has been elevated to Good article status.
• Acolytes Protection Agency, Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Stacy Keibler, and Vengeance (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

• WWE has invited Democrats running for president, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to Raw to settle their differences in a wrestling match. The invitation video can be found here.
• On the April 21 edition of Raw, the King of the Ring tournament will return for one night only. The entire tournament will take place on Raw.
• Mick Foley made a appearance in the new film, Anamorph.

• Current: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler).
• Kept: Juggernaut (wrestler), World Wrestling Professionals, List of TNA tournaments, Shaun Simpson
• Deleted:

Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	6	5	12
	FL			1	13	14
	GA		4	9	30	43
	B	1	11	49	199	260
	Start	2	51	217	2300	2570
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	68	306	3151	3528
	Total	3	68	306	3152	3533

• Based on the members list, there are currently 374 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 41 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:
• Apr. 27 - WWE presents Backlash (2008)
• May 4 - S-pac54's birthday
• May 8 - The Chronic's birthday
• May 11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice

The article collaborations for April 13 through April 27 are World Wrestling Entertainment and Booker T. 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, April 13.

Next week we will start the Editor of the Week. This will take the place of the Member Interviews. The EOTW will be given their own interview instead. To be fair, this week we will post all of the interviews that were on the schedule. Click the link next to the user's name to see their interview:

Contributors to this Issue:

• GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
• iMatthew (talk · contribs)
• LAX (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• RkOrton (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., and Vengeance (2005) have been elevated to Good article status.
• Acolytes Protection Agency, Backlash (2006), Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Judgment Day (2005), Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (2005), Stacy Keibler, and Survivor Series (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

• William Regal won the King of the Ring tournament on the April 21 edition of Raw.
• Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain, made special appearance on Raw, via the titantron to address the Raw fans.
• During Backlash, Triple H became the new WWE Champion by defeating Randy Orton.
• Matt Hardy defeated MVP and became the new United States Champion.
• The Undertaker had the World Heavyweight Championship taken from him on the May 2 episode of SmackDown!.

• Current: Giovanni picarazzi.
• Kept:
• Deleted: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler), Xterminator (wrestler), The Playa (wrestler), Kalahari Boerboel (wrestler), InterMat.

Since the last issue, the number of stub articles has decreased again. 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
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	11	31	47
	B	1	12	51	199	265
	Start	2	51	220	2316	2593
	Stub		1	23	609	629
	Assessed	3	69	313	3175	3559
	Total	3	69	312	3173	3559

• Based on the members list, there are currently 377 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:
• 4 - S-pac54's birthday
• 8 - The Chronic's birthday
• 11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice
• 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day
• 18 - Self Preteder's birthday
• 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
• 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday

The article collaboration for April 27 through May 11 is National Wrestling Alliance. The featured article collaboration is Amy Dumas. 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, May 11.

• Welcome to the Editor of the Week!
  
• Our first editor of the week is Nikki311, who won with 6 votes.
  
• The runner-up, LAX came in second with 3 votes.
  
• Nikki311's award page can be found here. Congratulations Nikki!

Contributors to this Issue:

• GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
• iMatthew (talk · contribs)
• LAX (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• RkOrton (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Stacy Keibler, Randy Orton, and Acolytes Protection Agency have been elevated to Good article status.
• Over the Edge (1999) failed its Good article nomination, but has been reassessed here.
• Backlash (2006), Backlash (2007), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), Survivor Series (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

• Torrie Wilson was released by WWE on May 8.
• L.A.X. won the vacated TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result of defeating Team 3D in the Deuces Wild tournament final at TNA Sacrifice.
  • Also at TNA Sacrifice, Samoa Joe defeated Scott Steiner and Kaz to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
• During WWE Backlash, Triple H, The Miz and John Morrison, and Mickie James retained the WWE Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship, and WWE Women's Championship, respectively.

• Current: Africa Wrestling Alliance, International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior.
• Kept: TNA 2005 Super X Cup Tournament, TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament.
• Redirected: Deuces Wild Tournament, Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol.2.
• Deleted: Sean Creed, Giovanni picarazzi, Cf Turbo, Mother's Day Massacre (2008), Boerseun (wrestler), Nizaam Hartley, The Taxidriver (wrestler), Scorpion Kruger (wrestler), The Blacksmith (wrestler), RingDivas Womens Wrestling, Parrow Civic Centre, Nightmare (wrestler), Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa, Steve Eden (wrestler).

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
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	12	34	50
	B	1	13	55	203	272
	Start	2	52	220	2328	2604
	Stub		1	23	606	628
	Assessed	3	71	317	3189	3580
	Total	3	71	317	3189	3580

• Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 38 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:
• 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday
• 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
• 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
• 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
• 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

The article collaborations for May 11 through May 24 are Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and John Layfield. 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, May 25.

• Our second editor of the week is GaryColemanFan, who won with 4 votes.
  
• The runner-up, D.M.N., came in second with 3 votes.
  
• GaryColemanFan's award page and interview can be found here. Congratulations!
• The interview portion of the award page was just recently added. To see Nikki311's interview, go to her award page here

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• LAX (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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
		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

• 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

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.

• 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.

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)