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This article was nominated for deletion on 25 December 2011. The result of the discussion was keep.

Page length

According to Wikipedia, this page is too long. Some of the subsections, preferably the ones with main article links, should be shortened. --J Fred 22:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I dont think its long enough. I want to know about everything not just parts of it. Don.-.J 14:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

we will HAVE to give Capitol Wrestling its own article!!! --Too Cool 14:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

dudes, i know CWC is part of WWE's history but this page is too long. --Too Cool 05:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

any comments? --Too Cool 08:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the page is too long. I like it. --Tommyf10170 05:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is unbelievably poorly written202.59.22.246 (talk) 04:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WWE novels

So far there has been 2 novels made by WWE. Journey into Darkness and Big Apple Take Down is this worth any mention on the article. Bencey 14:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They should be added. --Tommyf10170 05:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PRIDE and WWE

Excuse me, but the proposed deal between WWE and PRIDE FC has been called Off! Why? because Nobuyuki Sakakibara the president of PRIDE has handed over PRIDE to Lorenzo Fertita, also one of the co-owners of Zuffa, the parent of the UFC. Im the one who had posted about the deal between PRIDE and the WWE in the article a long time ago, probably under a different IP address, and now the deal is Off so i feel it should be removed. Sakakibara explains about his decision to hand over the the company to the Feritas in this article, he also states that all planned and proposed deals between all other companies, inluding WWE and Wall Street investors, etc have been cancelled due to the move, Click here for article . I had removed the info about their deal in the article before, but it was reverted, and so im explaining the issue here on the discussion page. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.4.77.150 (talk) 05:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Benoit

Should there be a Death of Benoit part, granted the WWE had nothing to do with his death or the murders he committed, but I was just wondering if there should be something mentioned in this history part about that since it has effected the WWE in some way since it's been on the news and the steriod controversy that's brought back up.

That's a good question

I personally think that there should be a Benoit section because as stated above that it has had a profound effect on the WWE, and caused controversy.

Sports Entertainment or Professional Wrestling?

Should WWE be referred to as a sports entertainment promotion or professional wrestling promotion? -- Tommyf10170 05:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Both. Lrrr IV 02:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Benoit's Double Murder-Suicide

On June 24, 2007, Chris Benoit was supposed to wrestle CM Punk at the WWE's monthly pay-per-view event, Vengeance, but did not show up to the arena. It was later that the WWE had found out that Benoit had murdered his wife and son and then hung himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.1.151.234 (talk • contribs)

Where did the Benoit heading go?

The Benoit murder-suicide was a very important even in the history of World Wrestling Entertainment. There was a section previously on here, why was it removed? JSelby 21:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Owen Hart section has no references and is incorrect

This is Fresh Price Carlton here, I am very peeved at the way the article is sourced ([38] but no source link) an the facts are wrong. I am so blatant about the facts being wrong becasue I have a book in my hand now called: Sex, lies and headlocks: the true story of vince mcmahon and the WWF. It states in the intro facts conflicting with the facts stated in this page. For Example: It sates he fell 80 feet and he hit his head head against the turnbuckle causing his head to jerk back violently. He did not die in the ring, and it is not confirmed if he was DOA. Like I said before the section has: unsourced and incorrect facts, typed poorly and is vague. Can this be further discussed so the section can be properly fixed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.180.227 (talk) 00:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn't the change to PG covered?

I have a question here: Why isn't the Change to PG covered? How is that not significant enough for placement in the article?--Screwball23 talk 02:53, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is mentioned, just not largely. Not really that significant.--WillC 04:15, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's your opinion. You need to be neutral in editing wikipedia. Anyway, why isn't it covered? --Screwball23 talk 19:27, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Major revision

I've hacked out a ton of stuff that was uncited or undercited for the allegations it repeated. Some of it was BLP, and cannot be returned unless cited properly, but much of it was simply sloppy and probably easy to cite. Feel free to source and reinsert anything related to allegations about professional conduct, but please check with me before attempting to readd controversial material about living persons. Jclemens (talk) 15:53, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can see that you and Collect are buddy-buddy, and there's not much use talking with you. I am going to mediation regarding this issue, because you completely deleted good referenced info without a good rationale. This is not a BLP article, and I have no idea why you think this page is a BLP, the citations were there, which you are free to read. As to checking with you before re-adding material, I do not see why you feel you have the authority to hack an entire article to pieces and then claim that you are the article's steward in charge of what goes in and what doesn't.--Screwball23 talk 00:53, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If an article mentions a "living person" it is covered under WP:BLP. Period. Collect (talk) 02:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Allow me to clarify: by "check with me" I meant on my talk page. I don't have this page watchlisted. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 03:40, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just so there is no confusion and to confirm what Collect is saying, BLP applies everywhere not only on bios - if you are talking about a living person, WP:BLP applies. --Cameron Scott (talk) 17:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is really not okay. There are no good information on how it started. I really need information and I am starting to doubt WIKIPEDIA — Preceding unsigned comment added by K9Ndakota12 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Repetition in WWE article

The conditions for keeping this article at the recent AfD was that the history section in WWE be summarized. Until that's done this article is largely redundant to that one. -- œ ^™ 14:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

please fix/edit

someone put a big blue link saying john cena is awesome atthe begining of the forth paragraph under the cwc section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.126.70 (talk) 21:42, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No. -- œ ^™ 06:22, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

PG Era

The latter part of this section sounds like it was written by an opinionated fanboy. Cases in point:

1) Mention of the "IWC": It stands for "Internet wrestling community", which isn't clear to the more passive fans of the product, let alone people coming to Wikipedia to garner information. There is no other mention of "IWC" in the article, nor any indication of what it stands for

2) It's full of weasel-words

3) It speaks for fans, but doesn't offer any citations

4) It attributes motives to WWE, but again, no citations

The latter part of the section is unworthy of an encyclopedia. I recommend the latter part be scrubbed until it can be written more coherently and properly cited. 67.175.56.225 (talk) 23:28, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Eras

There is some eras (2) that are not mentioned in this article:

An era between the Capitol Wrestling Era & the Golden Era (sometimes named as the "Madison Square Garden Era", where Bruno Sammartino was the face of the company... and where it was the debut of the World Wide Wrestling Federation)

An Era between the Attitude Era and the Ruthless Agression Era (when WWE was trying to recreate the WCW... there was also the beginning of the Evolution stable)

Seiken Flame (talk) 00:18, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

PG era name

refering to this period as the 'PG era' is not a smart idea, as this is basically a name to criticize the company. Its a joke name and doesent make the company look positive at all. In 10 years time I assure you WWE will not be referring to this period as the PG era so I kindly ask that this name be removed and references to it be taken out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.186.244 (talk) 20:40, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I think it makes more sense to call the PG Era - The "WWE Universe Era", it is there official marketing... and 'Post-Attitude Era' is a bad name, I would think 'Brand Split Era' more aptly describes it. The Invasion was pretty much the culmination of the Attitude era and that was all finished by 2002 and totally complete with WMX8. After that Wrestlemania all the new stars debuted... Ruthless Aggression Cena, Deacon Batista, Lesnar and Orton. I know the Brand split didnt officially end until 2011, but there were more an more crossovers for years before and the split PPVs ended in 2007.