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From April 10 to May 10, WP:PW will be hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found
here and all memebers are encouraged to get involved.
Events Calender
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of April.
WP:PW is currently hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found
here and all members are encouraged to get involved, with two weeks left to go.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of April and May.
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.
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.
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.
Over the past month, WP:PW hosted the first
Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. In one month, the number of stub-class articles was reduced from 562 (13.84% of the project's total articles) to 477 (11.64%). More work expanding stubs is always appreciated. See
here for more information.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of May.
WWE signed
April Jeanette, better known by her ring name Miss April, to a developmental contract.
On May 8, WWE signed
Fred Sampson to a developmental contract.
TNA announced a new television show, TNA Epics, that will broadcast its inaugural show on May 15 on
Bravo in the
United Kingdom.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
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.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or
disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example:
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
As part of
the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of May 10, we are at 11.64%, with 483 articles currently in
Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source an improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the
stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of May and June.
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.
Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See
MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
As part of
the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 7, we are at 11.76%, with 488 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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of June.