Help:Professional Wrestlers

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Welcome to the Professional Wrestlers Project

The goal of our project is to add notable Professional Wrestlers to our global family tree.

How To Join

Goal

The goal of this project is to collect profiles of Professional Wrestlers, mainly in United States but also across the world as I am able. There may be wrestlers that are from a non-English country that has information online but I am not able to read the language.

At the moment I am focusing on Professional Wrestlers from WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), AEW (All Elite Wrestling), IMPACT Wrestling, and New Japan. There are many more companies but these will be a good place to start.

How to add Notable Professional Wrestlers to Professional Wrestlers Project:

1. Identify "famous" and "notable" Professional Wrestlers who should have a profile. If you'd like ideas for who to add, you might see Wikipedia's "Today in History" event lists. You can find these at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Professional_wrestlers < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Professional_wrestlers >.
2. Add those people to WikiTree.
   • Add the Notables Project Box or the Notables Sticker to the biography {{Notables}} or {{Notables Sticker}}.
     1. The Notables Project Box should only be used for profiles that are not Open Privacy. This would include profiles for living notables as well as deceased notables who have some controversial information that is at risk of being changed and need additional protections.
     2. In most cases, all deceased notable profiles should use the Notables Sticker.
   • After initial creation, edit the profile to set certainty of each relevant field.
   • Living Notables should have privacy level set to Unlisted, and their deceased family should be set to Open. This is extremely important for GDPR privacy compliance. Likewise, all deceased Notables and their family should be set to Open. It is important that everyone is able to contribute to profiles of this kind.
     1. Note that since the Privacy rules on living Notables have been updated to allow for many profiles to be set to something other than Unlisted, it is even more critical that the project account (below) is added as co-manager of these profiles. Leaders are now able to open the privacy on certain living Notables that fit the criteria outlined in the new rules, so once the profile privacy is set initially to Unlisted, the Leader can go in, add PPP to the profile, and make the profile privacy set to Private with Public Biography and Family Tree (or Yellow privacy). These changes will be done at the discretion of the project leader based on the rules at the time of the change.
   • Add wikitree-notables-project@googlegroups.com as Profile Manager if the profile privacy is not Open. This does not mean you need to delete yourself as Manager, but you can.
     1. Click the Privacy tab on the notable profile.
     2. In the Add to Trusted List section, enter wikitree-notables-project@googlegroups.com and press ADD THIS PERSON.
     3. In the Trusted List section, select the link for wikitree-notables-project@googlegroups.com to "Add as Manager."
     4. The Professional Wrestlers project will coordinate with the Notables project. Living Notables and profiles that are not Open Privacy should continue to maintain the Notables Project as co-manager in most cases alongside the other project(s), and in some cases, Notables may agree to remain on the Trusted List only, but Notables should always be on all profiles that qualify as a Notable.
   • If the person has a Wikipedia entry:
     • Add "See also:" under the Sources section, and then add "* Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Person_Name|Person Name]]" on a new line, replacing "Person_Name" with whatever is in the URL for their entry on Wikipedia after the last slash. (In other words, if the Wikipedia URL is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II, then that line should read "* Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Elizabeth_II|Elizabeth II]]".)
     • Click on the "Wikidata item" link in the left-hand menu of their Wikipedia entry, and note the number you see on the top line in medium-sized grey type that begins with "Q". Add "* {{Wikidata|Q1234567}}" on a new line, replacing "Q1234567" with the number you have noted. (For example, Queen Elizabeth's Wikidata number is "Q9682".)
     • Scroll down the Wikidata page, and check to see if there is a WikiTree ID entry, under Identifiers. If not, click on the "+ add statement" link at the bottom of the Identifiers section; type "WikiTree ID" into the property box (it should bring up a match after you type the first few letters), enter that person's WikiTree ID into the next box, and click on "publish". (For example, Queen Elizabeth's WikiTree ID is "Windsor-1".)
3. Properly categorize each person by their accomplishments and also by dates of significance.
4. Write a biography focused on genealogically relevant information (parents, birth/marriage/death date/location, spouse/children), with a very brief overview of major accomplishments (to support categorization) and links to detailed online information about their accomplishments.
5. Add sources (birth, marriage, and death records, census entries, etc.) to support the biographical information in the biography.
6. Add a photograph (image) of the Notable, from some publicly available source such as Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia.
7. Add all of the members of that person's family for whom you can find dates and sources to WikiTree, in order to connect them to the main tree. For more information on connecting people to the main tree and how to do it, see the Connectors Project page. For lists of unconnected notables, see the Unconnected Profiles list.
8. Add the Professional Wrestler to the Professional Wrestlers Project.

Go to the page and click the edit button to add the name in this format [[Professional Wrestler profile ID | Professional Wrestler’s name]] . For example [[Fliehr-3 | Richard “Ric Flair” Fliehr”]] and it will look like this Richard “Ric Flair” Fliehr” on the page.

Don't worry if how to do any of the above isn't totally clear. It will become clearer when you get started, and you can ask for help on anything in G2G.

Membership

Hello, I am Nikki Davis. We currently have several members. You will find those listed on the Professional Wrestlers Project page. If you would like to join contact me through my profile page listed above. I would love for you to join us. Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message.

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To go to the Wikitree Notables page click here.