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WikiProject Professional Wrestling
Shortcuts: WP:PW WP:PROWRESTLING 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.
[edit] Scope and goals 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. To keep articles encyclopedic in nature. To establish a uniform style for wrestler biographies, wrestling events and wrestling promotions. [edit] Project forums and subpages Project talk page - General discussion about the WikiProject and its articles. Also features the project's strategy to-do list. Collaboration - 6 articles are selected to be the focus of the project's participants until they reach a certain goal. Members list - List of members participating in the WikiProject. Style guide - Style guide to creating professional wrestling articles established by consensus among participants of this WikiProject. To-do list - A list of things that need to be completed. Templates - Infoboxes, template messages and navigation boxes for use in WikiProject related articles. Assessment - Assessment of articles by quality and importance. Calendar - Calendar for the WikiProject. Newsletter - The newsletter of WP:PW Broken external links - A way to keep track of all broken external links in WP:PW's Featured and Good articles. Dead links - List of dead links in pro-wrestling articles Stub articles - The project's stub article expansion. Library - Hard copy references held by members of the project. Deletions - List of current wrestling-related deletion discussions. Cleanup listing - The project's cleanup backlog. [edit] Participants This user is a member of WikiProject Professional Wrestling. 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 {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Userbox}} to your user page, shown above. Alternatively, you can add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Userbox ECW}} to your page instead for a version with the ECW Championship as the picture. [edit] Barnstar The WikiProject Professional Wrestling Barnstar is awarded to users who make outstanding contributions in the field of professional wrestling and wrestling entertainment, or contribute significantly to WikiProject Professional wrestling. Introduced by GIGGAS2 and designed by Lakes. Image What to type {{subst:The Professional Wrestling Star|message ~~~~}} [edit] Related WikiProjects Portals: Professional wrestling Parents: WikiProject Sports, WikiProject Entertainment WikiProject Media of wrestling (WP:MOW) (April 2006–April 2007) Project talk page archive List of wrestling media	[edit] Article nominations Feel free to contribute to the assessment of these articles. [edit] Good article nominations Slammiversary (2008) Masa Saito No Mercy (2004) Survivor Series (2007) World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) The Undertaker Taboo Tuesday (2005) [edit] Peer reviews William Regal - Review page [edit] Article examples These articles may help set an example for users editing other professional wrestling articles. [edit] Featured articles Bobby Eaton Promoted: November 25, 2007 CM Punk Promoted: July 31, 2007 December to Dismember (2006) Promoted: November 4, 2007; TFA: March 30, 2008 The Great American Bash (2005) Promoted: September 15, 2008 Insane Clown Posse Promoted: August 20, 2008 Lockdown (2008) Promoted: January 3, 2009 Montreal Screwjob Promoted: March 3, 2007; TFA: November 9, 2007 No Way Out (2004) Promoted: October 28, 2008 Over the Edge (1999) Promoted: December 31, 2008 Shelton Benjamin Promoted: November 5, 2007 SummerSlam (2003) Promoted: August 23, 2008 [edit] Featured lists 2008 WWE Draft CZW World Heavyweight Championship IWGP Heavyweight Championship List of celebrities involved with WrestleMania List of current champions in WWE List of ECW Champions List of members of the WWE Hall of Fame List of WCW Hardcore Champions List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions List of WCW World Tag Team Champions List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE) List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE) - LOTD: July 11, 2008 List of WWE Champions‎ List of WWE Cruiserweight Champions List of WWE European Champions List of WWE Intercontinental Champions List of WWE SmackDown video game titles List of WWE Tag Team Champions List of WWE United States Champions List of WWE Women's Champions NWA World Women's Championship Royal Rumble WWE No Way Out [edit] Featured topics Lists of World Wrestling Entertainment champions [edit] Good articles Acolytes Protection Agency Al Costello All Star Pro-Wrestling Amy Dumas Antonio Pugliese Brian Adams (wrestler) Brian Kendrick Briscoe Brothers Brock Lesnar Candice Michelle Carly Colón Dawn Marie Psaltis Don Kent (wrestler) Dwayne Johnson The Fabulous Kangaroos Faces of Fear Hardy Boyz Ion Croitoru Jeff Hardy John Cena Jos LeDuc Juggernaut (wrestler) Karen McDougal Katsuhiko Nakajima Konnan Kurt Angle Lipstick and Dynamite Lisa Marie Varon Lisa Moretti Maria Kanellis Matt Hardy The Mega Bucks Melina Perez Mickie James Mike Lockwood Money Inc. Nora Greenwald Paul London Randy Orton Rena Mero Rhonda Sing Ricky Banderas Sarah Stock Shawn Michaels Stacy Carter Stacy Keibler The Simpsons Wrestling Torrie Wilson Triple H Trish Stratus WWE SmackDown (video game series) WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 [edit] Good topics Hardy Boyz Vince's Devils [edit] Spoken articles WWE Cruiserweight Championship WWE European Championship Million Dollar Championship Rick Rude SummerSlam (2003) [edit] Did You Know? Katsuhiko Nakajima - (March 19, 2007) International Championship Wrestling - (June 30, 2007) The Machines (professional wrestling) - (July 6, 2007) Norvell Austin - (August 5, 2007) King of the Ring (1998) - (October 29, 2007) George Scott (wrestler) - (July 3, 2008) Bronko Lubich - (July 5, 2008) Porkchop Cash - (July 11, 2008) Armageddon (2006) - (July 17, 2008) Lipstick & Dynamite - (July 20, 2008) The Great American Bash (2004) - (July 21, 2008) C.W. Bergstrom - (July 22, 2008) Survivor Series (1993) - (July 23, 2008) The Great American Bash (2005) - (July 25, 2008) No Mercy (2005) - (July 30, 2008) SummerSlam (1992) - (August 9, 2008) Armageddon (2003) - (August 11, 2008) Bad Blood (2003) - (August 14, 2008) Gregg Groothuis - (August 28, 2008) List of celebrities at WrestleMania - (August 28, 2008) Lexie Fyfe - (September 3, 2008) Antonio Pugliese - (September 4, 2008) Millennium Wrestling Federation - (September 4, 2008) WrestleMania IX - (September 15, 2008) Royal Rumble (1995) - (October 3, 2008) WrestleMania XI - (October 5, 2008) King of the Ring (1993) - (October 10, 2008) Royal Rumble (1993) - (November 10, 2008) List of King of the Ring winners - (November 13, 2008) Survivor Series (1992) - (November 24, 2008) List of ECW Television Champions - (December 6, 2008) Judgment Day (2003) - (December 12, 2008) Armageddon (2000) - (December 12, 2008) Unforgiven (2002) - (December 12, 2008) No Mercy (2002) - December 13, 2008 [edit] Professional wrestling article stats Professional wrestling articles Importance Top High Mid Low Total Quality FA 4 6 10 FL 12 12 24 GA 6 32 73 111 B 1 17 68 199 285 C 2 16 100 118 Start 2 53 226 1791 2072 Stub 2 25 579 606 List 2 22 592 616 Assessed 3 82 405 3352 3842 Total 3 82 405 3352 3842 • • Geography & places: Australia: Australian plague locust • • India: Jammu and Kashmir Religion: Anglicanism: St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia) • • Catholicism: Papal Conclave Education: Universities NEW! 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To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community has taken part in collaborations to expand articles. On each collaboration, an article is chosen by people interested in the topic, and for a period of time (a week, fortnight, or month) the chosen article is worked on, under Wikipedia's principle of collaborative editing.

Collaborations can be created on nearly any subject. Existing collaborations have taken on topical areas (e.g. cinema, cryptography, or science), and regional focuses (e.g. India or Africa). Many collaborations are set up in conjunction with related WikiProjects or WikiPortals. Some have taken on other functional areas, such as translations of foreign-language articles, or book reporting. A few even focus on Wikipedia maintenance issues, rather than substantive additions. Collaborations can also range in the scope and aim of their work—most attempt to raise articles from stub level to comprehensive articles, while others attempt to polish larger articles until they reach featured status.

[edit] Collaborating on Wikipedia

One of the attractions of Wikipedia is that editing is collaborative. Anyone may edit an article, and anyone may edit another person's edits. Therefore, more than one person is able to contribute to an article, which has the advantages that the article may be developed more quickly than if it were just one person writing it, and the article has the experience of many contributors.

[edit] Creating a new collaboration

1. Create the main collaboration page at Wikipedia:Collaborationname. (See Starting a new page)
2. Create an outline on your collaboration page:
   • Most collaborations have the following content: introductory overview text; Template:COTWs; a notice of the current collaborations; links to subpages listing previous collaborations and failed nominations; selection process rules; directions for nominating articles; the list of nominees; a list of the templates used by the collaboration; and a list of relevant collaborations on other projects.
3. Identify topical areas within the scope of your collaboration:
   • A good way to do this is to copy the listings of Special:Whatlinkshere for the most important articles related to your project.
4. If possible, link to a sample article to let other Wikipedians see what the collaboration hopes to achieve.
5. Advertise!
   • Create a collaboration notice template, and insert it at the top of the talk page of current or nominated collaborations.
   • Post a notice at the Village Pump to alert potential new members.
     • You could also notify any appropriate Wikiproject
   • Look at the history of contributors to articles that fall within your collaboration's topical area. Many of them might consider joining your collaboration if you leave a message on their talk page.
   • Find prospective members on IRC at Freenode in the general #wikipedia discussion channel.
6. Collaborate!

[edit] Templates

See Category:Wikipedia Collaboration templates for collaboration templates

Most collaborations use templates to mark the current collaboration and candidates for future collaborations. The template marking the current collaboration should be placed at the top of the article in question. If a collaboration project is abandoned or neglected (such as left for twice as long as an article is scheduled to be current), the template should be removed from the current article and the collaboration marked as {{inactive}}.

Candidacy templates should be on the talk page. As talk page templates these candidacy ones should use the Coffee Roll format established at Template standardisation, or be incorporated into a WikiProject template.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Editing Weekend