Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Africa task force

Welcome to the Africa task force of WikiProject Football. This task force is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of association football in Africa.

Attention, task force participants!

The CAF website revamped in 2019, making hyperlinks from articles about all CAF events and competitions from 2014 until the end of that year currently non-reachable, causing Wikipedians like you, I.P. users and WP Bots alike to resort to archived links from the Wayback Machine for preservation. As of 09:52, Sunday, November 17, 2024 (UTC), contains this link contains the earliest archived info page about events on 29 January 2013 which could be very useful here on WP going foward. Since 21 March 2023, this user, Intrisit, has been around articles related or affiliated to this article's topic switching over links currently on related articles here to reflect the changes on the website. This notice will be removed once the link switch-overs are completed. Thanks for your attention. Intrisit (talk) 15:00, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scope

Topics covered

Domestic leagues and their seasons
Domestic cups and their seasons
Regional club and national championships and their seasons/editions
Continental club and national championships and their seasons/editions
Football clubs
National teams
Footballers and managers/coaches

Topics not covered

International competitions and matches

Portal

Football in Africa portal

Participants

To add your name to this list, please add # {{user|username}} below. You may also add the userbox template to your user page.

To do

Tag all related articles' talk pages with the |Africa=yes African football task force parameter
Review importance and quality of existing articles
Identify articles for creation
Identify articles for improvement
Recruit interested Wikipedians (using the invitation template)
Ensure all new articles have the appropriate categories and a suitable infobox
Ensure current squads are kept up to date
Ensure club managers and officials are kept up to date
Ensure the correct teams are included in the league articles, templates and list of football clubs in Africa article for the start of each season.

Requested articles

The Requested articles page serves as a guide for members to determine which articles are requested or need to be written. Users are free to place a request on any Africa-related football article here, while task force members (as well as other users) can respond to requests on the same page.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

14 Nov 2024 – Talla Ndao (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Geschichte (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
13 Nov 2024 – Mark Tanko (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Geschichte (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
06 Nov 2024 – Manuel Kanté (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Clariniie (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 13 Nov 2024; see discussion (7 participants)

Proposed deletions

11 Nov 2024 – Ahmed Galal (footballer) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by SunloungerFrog (t · c): I have struggled to find solid references in English - maybe there are some in other languages - to support the notability of this sportsman

Open tasks

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Guidelines

All created articles should follow both the Project Manual of Style and Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Assessment

Football in Africa articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			2	1			3
FL			1	3			4
GA		2	12	8			22
B	1	8	31	16			56
C	2	14	217	271			504
Start		26	1,089	3,216		28	4,359
Stub		18	3,099	10,547		2,603	16,267
List		1	3	254		1	259
Category					5,619		5,619
Disambig					1		1
File					17		17
Portal					7		7
Project					9		9
Redirect					173		173
Template					820		820
NA					4		4
Other					4		4
Assessed	3	69	4,454	14,316	6,654	2,632	28,128
Unassessed						4	4
Total	3	69	4,454	14,316	6,654	2,636	28,132

Templates

Project banner

Any article related to African football should have its talk page tagged with the following template:

{{WikiProject Football|class= |importance= |Africa=yes}}

The class and importance parameters may be filled in and modified as required in accordance with the scales linked within the template.

Football: Africa Unassessed

	Association football portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Football, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Association football on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FootballWikipedia:WikiProject FootballTemplate:WikiProject Footballfootball articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	Football in Africa portal This article is supported by the African football task force.

Userbox

There is a userbox available for participants. To add the box to your user page or talk page, simply add {{User African football task force}} appropriately.

This user is a member of the African football task force.

Invitation

Task force members can help recruit interested Wikipedians or potential members to the task force. One way of doing this is using the template available to participants. To extend an invite to a potential members, simply add {{subst:WikiProject Football - Africa task force invite|header}} to his/her talk page.

As a current or past contributor to Africa-related articles within WikiProject Football, I thought I'd let you know about the Africa task force, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles of all kinds related to African football. If you would like to participate, join by visiting the task force page. Thanks! ~~~~

Infoboxes

Stub templates

Barnstar

{{The Africa football Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~}}

		The Africa football Barnstar
		put your message here ~~~~

Popular pages

Recognised content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Football in Africa task force articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Total pages in content type is 3

Main page featured articles

2015 Africa Cup of Nations final (2022-02-06)
Bert Trautmann (2009-10-22)

Total pages in content type is 2

Featured lists

Total pages in content type is 4

Main page featured lists

List of international goals scored by Emmanuel Adebayor (2024-09-23)
List of international goals scored by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (2024-03-29)