Talk:Pacific Northwest Wrestling
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The entry for Portland Wrestling should be merged with the entry for Pacific Northwest wrestling for a simple reason - they are the same organization. When Portland Wrestling re-opened in either 2000 or 2001, as part of the promotional video package aired on their first TV broadcast on the WB, they established that they were the new version of the old PNW, and stressed a title lineage with the PNW belts and are currently using the old Pacific Northwest titles.
Thus, I believe that is appropriate and fitting of the purpose of Wikipedia (and the Pro Wrestling WikiProject) to combine the two entries into one, to better represent the history of Pacific Northwest Wrestling/Portland Wrestling. Peyton Westlake 06:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the importance level to mid because it doesn't cover general knowledge (high) or highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia (low), but rather it it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. Pacific Northwest Wrestling under Don Owen was one of the major territories from the 1940/50s to the early 1980s. Even after WWF, PNW held strong as a major player throught the 1980's, and even up until its closing in 1992 still was promoting matches with tops stars (Roddy Piper, Crush of Demolition, the Harris Brothers).Theophilus75 21:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The section on other notable federations needs clean up. Specifically, the CAPSLOCK needs to be turned off--in other words the section's entries need to be redone in Title Case. Second, if notable, they need to be wikilinked (put brackets around them so future articles can be written). If they aren't notable enough by Wikipedia standards, they shouldn't be listed at all. Finally, I'm not sure this section should be included at all--this article shouldn't be a laundry list or catchall for every other Pacific Northwest wrestling topic. If a general article is needed, then it should be at Wrestling in the Pacific Northwest, as this article's title refers to a specific federation. Katr67 (talk) 21:55, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This page needs to be watched for Vandalism. It has recently been vandalised multiple times by someone representing themself as wrestling promoter "bob spicher". Currently it has only verifiable facts that are supported by references and i needs to stay that way. People need to remember that anytime they make an edit, it needs to be only verifiable and factual information.--OregonWrestling (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I placed a contradict tag on this section. I previously tagged the statement that Portland Wrestling footage had fallen into the public domain. By my definition, "public domain" means free of copyright. Just because neither KPTV nor Barry Owen are challenging the redistribution, retransmission and reuse of Portland Wrestling footage, doesn't mean that the footage is free of copyright. Someone later inserted the statement that Matt Legit's YouTube account was yanked due to a copyright infringment claim. I get the impression that it was a "competitor" who did this, namely someone else who is redistributing footage but doesn't hold a valid copyright claim themselves. I could be wrong about that. Anyway, to make this simpler, these two statements don't make sense when put together. It should be simple enough to figure out: how can you file a copyright infrigement claim on something which is in the public domain?RadioKAOS (talk) 13:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As I am the Matt Legit in question, I would like to add that I did extensive research into the ownership of the Don Owen Sports' video archive, including calling both the State of Oregon and the United States Library of Congress. Neither government entities have ANY documentation regarding this footage, which I was further insured of during my time working with Portland Wrestling Uncut and KPTV. According to Copyright Law of the United States, the only lawful possibility of a copyright claim would exist on work created after 1990. It took a long, long, long time to unravel this mystery, so please don't brush it off. - Matthew Merz youtube.com/LegitProWrestling — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.128.100.168 (talk) 12:42, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]