As of August 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	22	45
	GA		9	49	87	145
	B	5	19	86	226	336
	C		5	45	178	228
	Start	5	51	285	1951	2292
	Stub			25	478	503
	List		3	29	619	652
	Future			5	6	11
	Assessed	10	88	554	3570	4224
	Total	10	88	554	3570	4224

—Articles

• TNA X Division Championship (review page) was not promoted to Featured article status.
• CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (review page), List of CMLL World Tag Team Champions (review page), List of CMLL World Trios Champions (review page), NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (review page), and WCW United States Tag Team Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Cliff Compton, Cody Rhodes, Debra Miceli (review page), Jimmy Reiher, Jr., The Legacy (professional wrestling), Leilani Kai, Mark Henry , Ted DiBiase, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, TNA Legends Championship, TNA World Tag Team Championship, and Well Dunn are current Good article nominees.
• TNA World Heavyweight Championship (discussion) has been nominated for Good article reassessment after failing its Good article nomination.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Mark Vartanian and Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship.
    • Kept: Bill Verna (2nd nomination) and Irish Whip Wrestling (2nd nomination) both were closed as no consensus
    • Deleted: All Premier, The Canadian NINJAS, New Omega Wrestling Tag Team Championship, NWA Charlotte, and Real Championship Wrestling.
    • Merged: American Luchacore Championship

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• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 2, we are at 11.96%, with 505 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 225 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• The style guide has been updated to reflect the new consensus on the formatting in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and the new format can be found at WP:PW/SG#In wrestling. Please help out in converting all biographies to the new format.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of August.

• 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Hard Justice
• 16 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Verano de Escandalo
• 23 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents SummerSlam

• At TNA's Victory Road pay-per-view:
  • Angelina Love defeated Tara to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
  • Kevin Nash defeated A.J. Styles to win the TNA Legends Championship.
  • Scott Steiner and Booker T won the TNA World Tag Team Championship by defeating Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm).
  • Taz made his TNA debut.
• On July 21, Hijo del Fantasma defeated Averno to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship.
• Damien Steele, a former WWE developmental wrestler, died on July 22. The cause of death was determined as a brain aneurysm.
• Dragon Gate USA held its inaugural pay-per-view event on July 25 at The Arena.
• At WWE's Night of Champions pay-per-view on July 26:
  • Christian defeated Tommy Dreamer to win the ECW Championship.
  • Mickie James won the WWE Divas Championship by defeating Maryse.
  • Jeff Hardy defeated CM Punk to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
• Chris Mordetzky returned to WWE under his "Chris Masters" gimmick on the July 27 episode of WWE Raw.
• On July 29, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that Elijah Burke had signed a contract with TNA.
• On July 30:
  • The Brian Kendrick was released from WWE.
  • On TNA Impact!:
    • Mick Foley won the TNA Legends Championship from Kevin Nash.
    • Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Deon) in a Tables match; it is unknown whether New Japan Pro Wrestling will recognize this title change.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
2. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
3. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
4. Please avoid adding rumors to articles. Most rumors cannot be sourced with a reliable source and go against the Biographies of living persons policy.
5. Be aware of the new format in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and apply the relevant section (WP:PW/SG#In wrestling) to new articles that you create, or previously created articls that have not yet been updated after the change.

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As of August 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	28	51
	GA		9	50	87	146
	B	5	19	86	225	335
	C		6	47	189	242
	Start	5	51	284	1973	2313
	Stub			25	492	517
	List		3	28	615	647
	Future			6	6	12
	Assessed	10	89	550	3612	4273
	Total	10	89	550	3612	4273

—Articles

• CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (review page), CMLL World Women's Championship (review page), IWGP Tag Team Championship (review page), and List of WWE Hardcore Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Charlie Haas, Cliff Compton, Cody Rhodes, Jimmy Reiher, Jr., The Legacy (professional wrestling), Mark Henry , Ted DiBiase, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, TNA Legends Championship, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, TNA World Tag Team Championship, and Well Dunn are current Good article nominees.
• TNA World Heavyweight Championship (discussion) failed its Good article reassessment.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Matt Riviera and Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship
    • Kept: Mark Vartanian
    • Merged: Edge a decade of decadence

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.13%, with 519 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 225 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of August.

• 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Hard Justice
• 16 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Verano de Escandalo
• 23 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents SummerSlam

• On August 6, Al Tomko died after a two-month bout with pancreatic cancer aged 77.
• Ricky Ortiz was released from his WWE contract on August 8.
• On August 12:
  • Karl Von Hess died at the age of 90, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Gladys Gillem died at the age of 88.
  • It was announced through various wrestling news sites that Jeff Jarrett had sold his final shares of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to the Carter family and would be returning to the promotion as a wrestler only.
• At the August 13 Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) television tapings, Heath Slater defeated Tyler Reks to win the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship.
• Apolo Dantés announced that he was starting his own promotion named Dantes Lucha Factory which will be based in Guadalajara.
• On August 14, Nick Dinsmore (Eugene) was released from his WWE contract.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Adhere strictly to the Biographies of living persons policy when adding to information to biography articles.

1. Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
2. Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written from a non-point of view perspective and is neutral.

1. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
2. Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
3. Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
4. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.

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As of August 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	29	52
	GA		9	52	89	150
	B	6	18	87	231	342
	C	1	7	49	213	270
	Start	6	48	281	1966	2301
	Stub			25	491	516
	List		3	28	595	626
	Future			5	8	13
	Assessed	13	86	552	3617	4268
	Total	13	86	552	3617	4268

—Articles

• IWGP Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidates.
• List of WWE Hardcore Champions (review page) was not promoted to Featured list status.
• Charlie Haas, Cliff Compton, Cody Rhodes, Jimmy Reiher, Jr., The Legacy (professional wrestling), TNA Bound for Glory, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Well Dunn, and The World's Greatest Tag Team are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • August 16: Super Muñeco
  • August 20: Ángel Azteca, Hart wrestling family, Cormier wrestling family, Yvon Cormier, Leo Burke, Rudy Kay, and Bobby Kay.
  • August 25: Ann Casey
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Brett DiBiase and Ground Xero Wrestling
    • Deleted: Matt Riviera and Qiz (wrestler).
    • Kept: Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship - was closed as no consensus
  • Categories for Discussion:
    • Current: Category:21st-century female professional wrestlers
    • Deleted: Category:Death among active Total Nonstop Action employees and Category:Deaths among active World Wrestling Entertainment employees.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.09%, with 518 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 230 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of September.

• 4 - Dragon Gate USA presents Enter The Dragon
• 13 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Breaking Point
• 18 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents their 76th Aniversary Show
• 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents No Surrender

• On August 16:
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi vacated the IWGP Heavyweight Championship after he suffered a broken orbital bone in a match with Shinsuke Nakamura.
  • Valiente won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship by defeating Sangre Azteca.
  • Player Dos won the Chikara Young Lions Cup by defeating Colin Delaney in the final of the 2009 Young Lions tournament.
  • At TNA's Hard Justice pay-per-view:
    • ODB won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship when she and Cody Deaner defeated the defending champion Angelina Love and Velvet Sky in a tag team match.
    • Samoa Joe won the TNA X Division Championship by defeating Homicide.
    • Kevin Nash defeated Mick Foley to win the TNA Legends Championship.
    • Elijah Burke made his TNA debut under the name "the Pope" D'Angelo Dinero.
• On August 17, it was reported that TNA signed a three year deal with Spike TV, and that TNA had replaced color commentator Don West with Taz.
• Dragon Gate USA announced a television deal with The Fight Network on August 18.
• On the August 20 episode of TNA Impact!, an eight-team tournament to crown the first TNA Women's Knockout Tag Team Champions was announced. The tournament will commence on the August 27 episode of Impact!.
• On August 21, Alex Koslov won the AAA Cruiserweight Championship by defeating the defending champion Extreme Tiger, and Jack Evans, Teddy Hart, and Rocky Romero in an elimination match.
• On August 23:
  • CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Jeff Hardy in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at SummerSlam.
  • Ring of Honor announced that Bryan Danielson had agreed to a contract with WWE "in principle".
• On August 27, WWE announced that, effective of September 2, they will be suspending Rey Mysterio for a violation of the Wellness Program.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
2. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
3. If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a ^{[citation needed]} tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
4. Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
5. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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As of September 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	30	53
	GA		9	52	93	154
	B	6	18	87	231	342
	C	1	7	49	222	279
	Start	7	47	283	1974	2311
	Stub			24	503	527
	List		3	28	581	613
	Future			7	10	17
	Assessed	14	85	560	3647	4306
	Total	14	85	560	3647	4306

—Articles

• Charlie Haas, Deuce 'n Domino, Jimmy Reiher, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, Well Dunn, and The World's Greatest Tag Team are current Good article nominees.
• The Legacy (professional wrestling) (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Chris Jericho and The Big Show, and WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs.
    • Deleted: Brian Von Dusen, Ground Xero Wrestling and Razor D.
    • Kept: Brett DiBiase
  • Categories for Discussion:
    • Merged: Category:21st-century female professional wrestlers

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 230 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of September.

• 13 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Breaking Point
• 18 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents their 76th Aniversary Show
• 20 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents No Surrender

• On August 30:
  • Orlando Magic announced that WWE had signed Magic dancer Trinity McCray to a developmental contract. New signing Maxwell McGuirk also began wrestling at Florida Championship Wrestling.
  • Alex Koslov vacated the AAA Cruiserweight Championship after leaving Asistencia Asesoría y Administración.
  • Naoki Tanisaki won the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship by defeating KAGETORA in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
• On August 31, New Zealand-based promotion Kiwi Pro Wrestling announced they had signed a televsion deal with Prime Television New Zealand.
• On September 1:
  • John Morrison won the WWE Intercontinental Championship by defeating Rey Mysterio; this match aired on the September 4 episode of SmackDown.
  • Nicole Raczynski made her return to TNA at the TNA Impact! tapings; the match aired on the September 10 episode.
• On September 3, TNA released Angelina Love due to problems with her work visa.
• On September 4:
  • Ring of Honor announced that Nigel McGuinness had agreed "in principle" to a contract with WWE.
  • Bryan Danielson won the PWG World Championship by defeating Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
• On September 6, Aero Star and Fabi Apache defeated Cinthia Moreno and El Oriental to win the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
2. If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain consensus from the project first.
3. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
4. Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
5. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".

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As of September 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			24	30	54
	GA		10	53	97	160
	B	6	18	86	228	338
	C	1	7	57	242	307
	Start	7	48	285	1983	2323
	Stub			22	501	523
	List		3	28	573	604
	Future			6	7	13
	Assessed	14	87	568	3664	4333
	Total	14	87	568	3664	4333

—Articles

• Well Dunn (review page) is a current Featured article candidate.
• TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship and TNA Women's Knockout Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deuce 'n Domino (review page) and The World's Greatest Tag Team (review page) are current Good topic candidates.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • September 21: Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling
  • September 25: Kerry Brown (wrestler)
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Deleted: Chris Jericho and The Big Show and Matty Miles.
    • Redirected: WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs
  • Templates for Deletion
    • Deleted: Template:Unified WWE Tag Team Championship
• Requested moves
  • Current: Vincent J. McMahon to Vince McMahon, Sr. (discussion)
  • Not moved: The Super Destroyers (discussion)

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 231 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of October.

• 4 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Hell in a Cell
• 18 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Bound for Glory

• On September 13:
  • John Cena defeated Randy Orton in an "I Quit" match to win the WWE Championship at Breaking Point.
  • The Colony (Fire Ant and Soldier Ant) defeated The Osirian Portal (Ophidian and Amasis) to win the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas.
  • Roberto Paz died at the age of 62 in hospital in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
• WWE released a number of developmental wrestlers, including Kris Logan, Fletcher Chase, Aiden Frost, Troy Jackman, and Espiral (Sicodelico, Jr.).
• On September 17, Yamato and Shingo Takagi defeated Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi to win the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship.
• Retired wrestler Lester Welch died on September 18.
• On September 19:
  • The Montreal Wrestling Federation announced that Tomassino had signed a WWE developmental contract, although this was later denied by Tomassino.
  • It was reported that TNA signed D'Lo Brown and Pat Kenney as backstage agents.
• At No Surrender on September 20:
  • Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) to become the first-ever TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions.
  • ODB defeated Cody Deaner to win the vacant TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
  • A.J. Styles defeated the defending champion Kurt Angle, and Hernandez, Sting, and Matt Morgan to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
• On September 21:
  • Lilian Garcia had her last night as a ring announcer for WWE.
  • Wrestlicious announced that Lacey Von Erich had signed a contract with TNA.
• Eddie Edwards suffered a broken elbow on September 25.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
2. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
3. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
4. Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
5. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.

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