User talk:Nikki311/Archive 8
Re: Stats
In here replace "Footbar" to "Professional wrestling". The stats will take about 10 minutes to update. Afterwards, it will say something along the lines of "Category:Professional wrestling updated successfuly!" D.M.N. (talk) 11:52, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Scrollbar on Omar Khadr
Surely there must be some way to reduce the size of the Refs section? :\ Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 14:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
COTW
Thanks for cleaning up Todd Grisham. Do you mind if I self-prune it from COTW. I want to nominate a new article. iMatthew 2008 18:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
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Nikki, you quickly became one of the top GA reviewers, and you definitely deserve this barnstar, so here you go! iMatthew 2008 15:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC) |
No problem, and I pretty much figured. I'll do that. iMatthew 2008 17:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I have a question for you, do you think that GaryColemanFan is ready to be an admin...if he wanted to run for RfA? iMatthew 2008 14:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Thats mostly what I was thinking. After he works on that more, he has the potential to be WP:PW's next admin. Remember this? Just because he thought the project needed another admin...wow. iMatthew 2008 18:28, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks: Ahimsa GA review
Thanks for the GA review. I have some queries about the article. Please see talk page.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 05:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Made the changes requested. --Redtigerxyz (talk) 04:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the pass and making the extra changes needed on your own. --Redtigerxyz (talk) 14:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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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:
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Rationale
Could you please tell me what a rationale is? I really really don't want my picture of The Mega Powers deleted. Believe it or not, I have been trying to put a rationale. So please tell me what it is so my pictures won't get deleted. The King Gemini (talk) 01:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
What does Low_Resolution mean? The King Gemini (talk) 01:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you left several warnings on PCE's talk page already about his renaming of finishing moves in pro wrestling articles. He's been at it again - I thought I'd bring this one in particular to your attention, though it's not the only one he's hit lately. [1] McJeff (talk) 01:10, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Re-Grade These Articles
Hi, nikki. I made a couple improvements to the following articles and was wondering if you could perhaps re-rate them on the quality scale (if they meet higher standards than they currently are at):
- CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship - currently at B
- CZW Iron Man Championship - currently at B (possible candidate for a GA?)
- CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship - currently at Start
- CZW World Tag Team Championship - currently at B
Ajstyles tna roh (talk) 07:56, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
PCE
Hey there. I saw that you had finals and whatnot, so I understand if you can't get to this right away, if ta all, but PCE is still changing move names, this time for Matt and Jeff Hardy. I don't think another warning is going to deter him, otherwise I'd just give him one. Hazardous Matt 16:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
National Wrestling Alliance
Hi, on the article National Wrestling Alliance you rv'd my linking the years with the edit summary (partly) being: "(linking stand alone years without an accompanying month and day is not correct)". Could you direct me to the relevant policy please? I was always under the impression we link years, though I may have been mistaken. +Hexagon1 (t) 04:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- OK, fair enough. I was under the impression that years should be linked, my bad! Thanks for pointing it out. +Hexagon1 (t) 23:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Ivybridge
You have removed Ivybridge from the Good article nominations as seen here. This is the second time that this has happened and the only reason given is "removing IP nom". It doesn't seem like a very fair system. If you were to look on the talk page of the article you will see that is being developed to Good Article status. P.S I don't know why there is a refimprove banner at the top of the article. Someone added it without saying why and I haven't revieved a reply a reply. 86.29.138.245 (talk) 15:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- At the top of the article, it states that only registered users may nominate an article. If you want to nominate it that badly, just sign up. Also, I agree with the ref tag. Sections with paragraphs with no citations include, Geography, Economy, Demography, and the last paragraph of History. Nikki311 15:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- Can you nominate it? It seems quicker that way. Thanks for telling me which areas need to be referenced... I've been waiting a long time to hear that. I'd better get to work then! :P 86.29.138.245 (talk) 16:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- I don't nominate articles very often, and when I do, it is an article that I worked on 100%. I wouldn't feel comfortable nominating someone else's work, especially when I don't know anything about the subject matter. Sorry. Nikki311 17:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- No problem, I understand. I'll do some more work to it later such as the referencing and add more history. After that I'll find someone else to nominate it. It takes a fair amount of time for the backlog to get sorted anyway... Just out of interest, are IP addresses allowed to do GA assessment? 86.29.138.245 (talk) 17:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- I don't nominate articles very often, and when I do, it is an article that I worked on 100%. I wouldn't feel comfortable nominating someone else's work, especially when I don't know anything about the subject matter. Sorry. Nikki311 17:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- Can you nominate it? It seems quicker that way. Thanks for telling me which areas need to be referenced... I've been waiting a long time to hear that. I'd better get to work then! :P 86.29.138.245 (talk) 16:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Jamel Lewis -- prod or AfD?
Hi, I know very little about professional wrestling. Why are the championship belts that he's won not sufficient proof of notability to pass WP:ATHLETE? I'm just asking to find out if this article should be at AfD instead. Thanks, Darkspots (talk) 15:32, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- That's very clear, thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. Darkspots (talk) 15:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter
The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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New Project
Useight and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.
If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. iMatthew 2008 18:44, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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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. Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
From the Editors
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Congrats Mrs. Editor of the Week. Pick up your prizes! Btw, you think Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson qualifies for quick-fail? iMatthew 2008 19:00, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Thanks for letting me know. At this point, it is actually more of a third opinion, but the suggestions are good and I will do my best to get to them in the coming days, although I am little harried in real life right now. Cheers, SorryGuy Talk 05:04, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
B-52's
This article has graduated from Start. It's at least as comprehensive as other B-class Georgia articles such as Danger Mouse and Monica (which is missing a pic). B-class articles are allowed to be somewhat deficient in refs--read the standards for B-class. Every sentence does not have to be noted in order to meet B-class. You are applying A standards one level too early.Rep07 (talk) 21:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Will Wright (game designer) is another example of a B-rated Georgia article which is below your narrow interpretation of the B standard, with explicit tags in the exact areas you are complaining of in B-52's. Take a look. I insist you downgrade this article; it is pure hypocrisy to leave this up while deprecating B-52's. Rep07 (talk) 21:04, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: quality scale being non-customizable--nonsense, many projects have project-specific quality tables, for example see B-grade standards in the following:
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Quality_scale
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Assessment#Quality_scale
It is telling that in most projects there is no response whatever to requests for assessment even followed by a full month of polite patient and respectful delay, but proactively changing an obviously wrong rating triggers an instant pre-emptive reaction--without prior discussion, courtesy, or delay. This clearly shows the presence of a common, and detestable pathological territoriality--passively complacent in a (false) sense of ownership, pre-emptively defensive in a non-collaborative way, yet functionally irresponsible and unresponsive to the demands of the presumed domain. I am perceiving that Wikipedia is probably doomed in the end, because as articles move up in size and quality over time, this pathology will spread like a virus among the many contributors til furious "little bigshots" obstruct and revert even the tiniest change to their "property".Rep07 (talk) 06:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
My Mega Powers Userbox
That's not fair. You gotta let me use that image. It was the only one I could find. The King Gemini (talk) 19:37, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
But I thought we were friends. The King Gemini (talk) 19:37, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, but that's a dumb ass policy, in my opinion. The King Gemini (talk) 23:04, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Torrie Wilson
hey WWE has released Torrie and i think you should put something about her departure on the page of WWE Diva in the history section and also that leaves Victoria, Lilian Garcia left from the old generation of WWE Divas - Spike7000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spike7000 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations, the article has passed the Good Article review and I have added it to the list of Good Articles! I have left a comment on what could be improved. Royalbroil 02:08, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
RE: SummerSlam
Yes. In fact, I was going to give WP:PW a notice later today about nominating it next week. Sure, I'd love to help; that sounds like a great idea. Who else were you considering help from? Also, in case you didn't realize or something, SummerSlam (1993) and SummerSlam (1994) are already GAs. So that means we'd have to get just the '88 article, and the main SummerSlam article elevated. –LAX 20:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
- I'm totally down, I can give them pre-GA reviews before they get nominated! King iMatthew 2008 20:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
- I think a better idea would be for a few users to work on it, and if others ask then work with them as well. I think it would be more organized if it wasn't completely exposed to the project. King iMatthew 2008 22:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't haven't gotten to looking over SummerSlam (1988) yet. I'll make sure to go through it in detail within the next day or two. Glancing over it, though, I see that it avoids the big problem we've had with our FA nominations. Since all of the sources are reliable, it might be a good idea to skip the GA stage and go for FA. GaryColemanFan (talk) 04:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- Go ahead and nominate it whenever you'd like. I think it's a great article that has potential at becoming an FA. Also, may I get your opinion on something? Based on this and this, are CompleteWWE and WrestleView reliable sources? –LAX 21:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- Alright. I'll still nominate it, and if I get questioned about the sources, I will use those links as my defense. With that being said, should I still wait until next Monday to nominate it? Or... –LAX 21:51, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I have begun a pre-FA review for SummerSlam 1988. It looks like a lot of things that I've brought up, but they're all minor details and I've mentioned that a few are just personal preferences. I should be able to go through the "Event" and "Aftermath" sections tomorrow (and I'll get it done by Saturday at the latest). GaryColemanFan (talk) 06:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Cookies!!!!!!!
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SimonKSK 23:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
GAN
Your talk page
Hey Nikki
Cold Feet GA
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- No problem. Also, should this article be failed? It's review has not been touched for 2 weeks. King iMatthew 2008 02:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I've added the interview questions to your award page, please answer them as soon as possible. King iMatthew 2008 11:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Wrestling
- Wow. I've been watching it since the early 90s (The Golden Age). I grew up on superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, etc. The King Gemini (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
Articles for Deletion
- 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).
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
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Member News
- Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
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- 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday
- 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
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- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
- 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
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- LAX (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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King iMatthew 2008 has given you Brownies! Brownies promote WikiLove and hopefully this plate has made your day better, and made you less hungry! Spread the WikiLove to others, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing! Have a nice, delicious plate of chocolate brownies. I though you deserved a treat. Enjoy! King iMatthew 2008 21:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
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- SRX (talk · contribs)
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Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Your talk page
Hey Nikki
Cold Feet GA
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- No problem. Also, should this article be failed? It's review has not been touched for 2 weeks. King iMatthew 2008 02:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I've added the interview questions to your award page, please answer them as soon as possible. King iMatthew 2008 11:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Wrestling
- Wow. I've been watching it since the early 90s (The Golden Age). I grew up on superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, etc. The King Gemini (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
Articles for Deletion
- 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).
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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71
317
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3
71
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
- 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
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
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GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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323
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3
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
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This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
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Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
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- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Nikki
Cold Feet GA
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- No problem. Also, should this article be failed? It's review has not been touched for 2 weeks. King iMatthew 2008 02:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I've added the interview questions to your award page, please answer them as soon as possible. King iMatthew 2008 11:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Wrestling
- Wow. I've been watching it since the early 90s (The Golden Age). I grew up on superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, etc. The King Gemini (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
Articles for Deletion
- 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).
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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628
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71
317
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3
71
317
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
- 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
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- LAX (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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King iMatthew 2008 has given you Brownies! Brownies promote WikiLove and hopefully this plate has made your day better, and made you less hungry! Spread the WikiLove to others, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing! Have a nice, delicious plate of chocolate brownies. I though you deserved a treat. Enjoy! King iMatthew 2008 21:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
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Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Cold Feet GA
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- No problem. Also, should this article be failed? It's review has not been touched for 2 weeks. King iMatthew 2008 02:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I've added the interview questions to your award page, please answer them as soon as possible. King iMatthew 2008 11:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Wrestling
- Wow. I've been watching it since the early 90s (The Golden Age). I grew up on superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, etc. The King Gemini (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
Articles for Deletion
- 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).
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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71
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3
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
- 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
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- LAX (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
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GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
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Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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- No problem. Also, should this article be failed? It's review has not been touched for 2 weeks. King iMatthew 2008 02:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I've added the interview questions to your award page, please answer them as soon as possible. King iMatthew 2008 11:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Wrestling
- Wow. I've been watching it since the early 90s (The Golden Age). I grew up on superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, etc. The King Gemini (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
Articles for Deletion
- 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).
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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3
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
- 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
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
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GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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King iMatthew 2008 has given you Brownies! Brownies promote WikiLove and hopefully this plate has made your day better, and made you less hungry! Spread the WikiLove to others, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing! Have a nice, delicious plate of chocolate brownies. I though you deserved a treat. Enjoy! King iMatthew 2008 21:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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Member News
- 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.
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- 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
- 29 - CJMiller's birthday
- 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
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Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Wrestling
- Wow. I've been watching it since the early 90s (The Golden Age). I grew up on superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The Undertaker, etc. The King Gemini (talk) 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
Articles for Deletion
- 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).
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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Member News
- Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
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- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Editor of the Week
- 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
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
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GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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203
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Start
2
52
221
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Stub
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624
Assessed
3
71
323
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3
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Member News
- Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
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- 29 - CJMiller's birthday
- 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
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Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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- 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.
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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.
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- 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday
- 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
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- 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
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GA review: Alexander Alekhine
Hi, Nikki. I've summarised the outstanding items (Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review) and there's one on which I need your input - how to present in the main text A.'s tournament results 1927-35. Philcha (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
More work for you, I'm afraid. I'm dissatified with the current structure of "World Chess Champion, second reign (1937-46)", "Nazi controversy" and "Death" and have proposed a re-vamp as part of my "outstanding items" list at Talk:Alexander Alekhine#GA_review. What do you think? Philcha (talk) 12:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Nikki311, I think all issues have been worked on for Alexander Alekhine, so could you please have your final look and give us your verdict ? SyG (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Merci beaucoup pour la revue de l'article Alexander Alekhine! Vos judicieux commentaires nous ont permis de fortement améliorer le contenu et la présentation, et de franchir une étape importante dans la vie de cet article. SyG (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Nikki311, if SyG's comment means what I think it means, I agree - you've been a great help, many thanks!
- Re your post review suggestions:
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- Alexander Alekhine was the first article in which we tried presenting detailed results as tables, because previously the results made most of the the text an indigestible catalogue of results. I've since tried this approach with Howard Staunton (60 KB), Wilhelm Steinitz (60 KB) and Adolf Anderssen (35 KB), who played chess in the mid to late 19th century, when opportunities for formal competition were much less frequent. AFAIK the tables approach has not yet been tried with another mid to late 20th century player (it's not a fun job, and Quale did well over half the grunt work on Alexander Alekhine). But IMO comparing Howard Staunton, Wilhelm Steinitz and Adolf Anderssen suggests the amount of text is the most significant influence on length: Staunton and Steinitz were controversial and historically important (like Alekhine), so there was a lot of text to write; Anderssen was simply a nice guy who was world #1 for most of 15 years. My own feelings are: a consistent format would be helpful to readers; it might be good to see how tables in the same article work out for 1 or 2 other mid to late 20th century players, to see if they works as part of a near-universal format.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dinosaur, both former FAs, are 90 KB and 116 KB.
- That apart, how much work do you think would be needed to get Alexander Alekhine to FA grade? (just a wet finger estimate, no grudges will held if it turns out different!)
- How big a problem do you think the article length (93 KB) is?
- If you find time to respond, please do so at Talk:Alexander Alekhine. If not, thanks for the time you've already put in. Philcha (talk) 11:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
GA review: St Marks College
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Dark Angel (wrestler)
- Thanks for the reminder about the SummerSlam review. I got back to the article and finished the review. I know it seems like I brought up a lot of things, but I wanted to give it a detailed review to give it the best possible chance at FA status. You did a great job writing it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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.
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Member News
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Collaboration of the Week
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Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
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Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
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- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Hey Nikki, can you copy-edit Over the Edge (1999)??--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 01:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
WWE Wreckless Intent
- Hey Nikki, I want to make WrestleMania similar to Royal Rumble and nominate it in the future for FL, but I want to ask you, should some of the info in the lead paragraphs be removed?--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)--SRX 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Now, If I create that, what other type of information should I place in that new article?--SRX 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. D.M.N. (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
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2
52
221
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323
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3
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Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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How can I tell how many K my article is? (re: Stanley Marcus)
- As you saw, I've started on the work. I found my copy of Minding the Store and will see if any of the unsourced points come from it (I already looked in several electronic clippings files). I'm still working on how to expand the lead, writing-wise. I hear you that there needs to be more about his career vs. so much about the awards. Incidentally, can I keep the Advertising HOF quote up there if I add a paragraph later in the article discussing the award? The lead is in the style of leads I've liked in other GAs and in FAs, albeit skimpier — not an attempt to lionize or trumpet him, but a sense of why he's notable. Are there specific biographical articles that you think of as models for the lead? I'll try looking for GAs and FAs that I could compare to. Lawikitejana (talk) 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
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Top
High
Mid
Low
Total
Quality
FA
2
3
5
FL
1
5
15
21
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58
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13
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203
274
Start
2
52
221
2331
2606
Stub
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23
600
624
Assessed
3
71
323
3191
3588
Total
3
71
323
3191
3588
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Just to let you know I'm not quite done. It's finals week at the school where I teach, so I've been stretched a little thin. However, I am working on fixing up the lead. I'd still welcome models if you've seen any.Lawikitejana (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- One last question... I have my preferences set to show me at the top of each article whether it's stub-class, start, B, good, featured, etc. For some reason, the Stanley Marcus article still shows there as B-class. Any idea why? I checked other GAs, and they all say "A good article from Wikipedia." ?? Lawikitejana (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that one last uncited sentence. I'd still love for you to punch up the lead if you have an idea, but other than that, we should be good to go. Just let me know!Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- Writer's block is setting in. I liked your suggestion "After looking through a bunch of those, I think the lead should be formatted like this: a paragraph explaining who he is, a paragraph summarizing his life and career, and a paragraph summarizing why he is so great. What do you think? Nikki311 22:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)" but I can't seem to figure out how to actually do it. However, I certainly don't want the article failed. What to do? Lawikitejana (talk) 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Still don't yet give up ... I turn in my students' grades tomorrow and then will have plenty of time to finish re-editing the lead (!). Lawikitejana (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- I looked at leads of some GA and FA biography articles, and FWIW, found several with quotes in the lead. That doesn't automatically mean my quote should stay, of course, but I thought you'd be interested. (FA examples: Glynn Lunney, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (shorter quote), Harold Innis; GA examples: Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles M. Loring) Thanks for your note about the hold.Lawikitejana (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Pardon me
- Wow... ferreal? That sorta blows my mind. I'm not quite sure why. --Endless Dan 17:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Would you care to do the honors?
Actually, since you're off, I'll go to AIV. Still, I'm interested in how you've been. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 06:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing really well. I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing well. Anything interesting going on? Cheers, -The Hybrid- 04:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Jury duty: bleh! That sucks. Well, I'm thinking about finding a new job. The politics at my current job has evolved to a creature beyond what I can tolerate. However, this means that I am probably going to be taking a considerable pay cut, in addition to going back to the bottom of the ladder again. If I can find a transfer within my company I will give that a try, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Cheers, -The Hybrid- 05:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
SummerSlam project
Should the result section be changed in every pay-per-view article? iMatthew T.C. 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
GA Nomination for Nhat Hanh
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
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- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
As per your comments on the GA candidacy of Jacques Brel is etc...
- Since no one else has commented in the peer review of Backlash (2003), do you have any comments to add to the peer review, if not, may you copy-edit it? Thanks Nikki. --SRX 00:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Me? Oh, that is a nice invitation. But I've never done Peer Review. What I am supposed to do? (If possible, please reply to my Talk Page). Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention:
"Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
ISBNsIn your recent review of the article Nhat Hanh, you listed among items requiring attention: "Some of the books in the Bibliography and further reading don't have isbn numbers. Is this because they don't have them? They also need their authors listed. See Template:cite book."
Per the guideline Wikipedia:CITE#FULL ("a generally accepted standard that editors should follow"):
"All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used.
Full citations for books typically include: the name of the author, the title of the book or article, the date of publication, and page numbers. The name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional, although publisher is generally required for featured articles."
-- Writtenonsand (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
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The Editor's Barnstar | |
For your hard work on SummerSlam 1988. Hopefully your hard work will be rewarded! ;) D.M.N. (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC) |
Re: review
- I am, its just that the user who nominated is on break and told me to hold off in the review, since the user is the one who makes the edits/changes in the article. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
Once Again Thank You
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png/30px-Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png)
Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
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This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
Your sandbox
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
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Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/75px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png)
The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
GA Review of Palace of WestminsterThanks for your review, the comments are definitely useful, especially as we are aiming for FAC at some point but I have to question some of your rationale,based on my understanding of GA criteria:
- There are entire sections and paragraphs without in-line citations. Please provide them to increase verifiability.
- GAC requires citations for quotations, statistics, and controversial material, but doesn't require them for every paragraph?
- All the pictures are located on the right-hand side of the article. Can't some of them be moved to the left, so it looks more balanced?
- I'll certainly take a look at this, but again is it reason to fail GA?
- There are several one or two sentence paragraphs. Merge these with the surrounding paragraphs or expand them.
- This seems fair enough under WP:LAYOUT.
- The citations in the references need to be formatted with Template:cite web.
- Again this doesn't seem to fall under GA criteria - there's no mention of the format required for citations.
- Format all numbers + words with . Ex: 70 meters
- I'm not sure what you mean by this - I know we recently updated measurements to have consistency of units but could you clarify this point please?
In short, I'm a little disappointed - if the bar is higher for GA then I thought, then fair enough, but I did think we were pretty much there. Paulbrock (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png/30px-Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png)
Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
Thanks
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png/30px-Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png)
Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/75px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png)
The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
Is it ready?
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png/30px-Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png)
Project News
- 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.
Current Events
- 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.
The Month in Wrestling History
- 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.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
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
Member News
- 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
Collaboration of the Week
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.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- 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.
From the Editors
Contributors to this Issue:
- IMatthew (talk · contribs)
- NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
- SRX (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png/30px-Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png)
- 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 | |||||||
![]() |
2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
![]() |
1 | 5 | 15 | 21 | |||
![]() |
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)
Great American Bash (2008)
- Different category, but can you delete Template:Infobox wrestling draft, remember how you recommended it, but people seemed to disagree with it, and its not in use anywhere so may you delete it?--SRX--LatinoHeat 22:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/75px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png)
The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
- Done and done. Nikki311 23:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving Great American Bash 08. I created it last night and when I was trying to it wouldn't take the name The Great American Bash (2008). I never could get the link to go red so I could make it. It just kept taking me to WWE Great American Bash.--WillC (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well good thing I didn't try to do it then. I would have never done it. Well thanks, I didn't know who to ask to make it The Great American Bash so I just left until somebody moved it.--WillC (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Nikki for deleting it.SRX--LatinoHeat 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Survivor Series (2008)
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/75px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png)
The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
- Thank you!----WillC-- 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
GAN: Teresa Hsu
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/75px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png)
The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
-
Micke James
Okay. That makes sense.I still can't find a reliable source that says they broke up.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)).
Janet Jackson as gay icon
Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/75px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png)
The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/GA_Award.png/70px-GA_Award.png)
- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
- Contributors to this Issue
Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!
WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
- Nominations:
McLaren MCL60 | start review)
• Infant school | start review)
• Murali Vijay | start review)
• Barry Sheene | start review)
• Rodolfo Calle | start review)
- Reassessment:
John W. Campbell •
Ni Yulan •
FM (No Static at All) •
Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division •
Justinian I •
Franklin's lost expedition •
- Task forces:
Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup
- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
Delivered by the automated Giggabot (stop!) 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Removal of fact tag
- Sorry for the delay. That seems a reasonable compromise. I have to ask - did you do a search of industry magazines through a library? What magazines are there about professional wrestling? --Laser brain (talk) 23:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles newsletter
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008
- Project News
- There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.
- The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
- The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.
- The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
- The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.
- GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.
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- GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
- Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
- Eustress (talk · contribs)
- GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
- Ice Cold Beer (talk · contribs)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
- Nikki311 (talk · contribs)
- ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)
- Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs)
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
- Member News
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
- Limetolime (talk · contribs)
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
- Mm40 (talk · contribs)
- Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
- New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
- Did You Know...
- ... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
- ... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
- ... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?
- From the Editors
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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- Reassessment:
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- Task forces:
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- WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013)
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details. ![]()
Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month! Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.
There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:
This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! |
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable. When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category. When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs). Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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RE: Current class
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Riya Sen
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Yippeeeeeeeeee! Finally it passed. Thanks for everything - the care, the concerns, the participation, the discussions, the and finally the assessment. Yahoooooooo. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Taryn Terrell
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)Hey Nikki,
How are you? I was wondering if you wouldn't mind checking out the Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) article and seeing if you thought it's reached the point where it might be a B article? If not, what else do you think needs to be done? I've went in recently and expanded the sections on People, Religion and Cuisine a little bit, along with inline citations where necessary. I do know that the Southern dialect section and the Timber section could probably use a little more work. But, finding decent online references has been pretty difficult. Anyways, if you could give it a once over it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Reb (talk) 12:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the new assessment and suggestions! Reb (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: Lockdown 08
- Okay thanks. Just for you to know I suck at reports. English is my worse subject. The only reason I even wrote it was to try. I wasn't going to let my incapability stop me from making the article. The reason I described the match was I was coping from Victory Road (2004) and it described the match so I thought I had to describe the match. Now I know different. I don't know why but I've always spelled later like latter. I never have understood where I started thinking it was spelled with two "t". But thanks. I feel like a idiot now seeing all the things you changed. But at least I know now, before I screw up more articles. Thank you very much.--WillC 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi!, me again. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I have perfected Lockdown 2008 in my sandbox. I've added references and rewrote the event section. I'm almost done with the event section and was wondering if you could read the article and tell me if it is any better and if it is ready to go through the process of nomination for GA status? Here.--WillC 22:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit, if you may ;)
- Thank you so much Nikki. Hopefully they have a chance at GA/FA and FL!
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank You so much for granting my every request of copy editing, you deserve this barnstar and many of these, thank you Nikki!--SRX--LatinoHeat 14:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- You said something about the Background and Aftermath being too long. That they were longer than the event. Well is this around the size of what the Aftermath should look like? here--WillC 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)