Wikipedia:WikiProject American football
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Welcome to the American football WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving the coverage of topics related to American football on Wikipedia. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the members.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
Project description
[edit]Goals
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of American football.
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of American football by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
- To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to American football in Wikipedia.
- Clean-up, merge, wikify, create images for, expand, merge and otherwise improve the individual articles dealing with the subjects above
- Create and use good graphics for display within articles.
- Acceptable images include originally drawn graphics and public-domain photos.
Side goals
- creating user boxes for project members
- creating a stub template
- getting more editors involved in the project
- submitting project for review process
Focus points
- plays
- formations
- schemes
- philosophies
- positions
- other general strategy points
Scope
[edit]- This project should deal primarily with strategic aspects of football; articles on specific leagues, players, teams, and games should be in the scope of other projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League and Wikipedia:WikiProject College football
Guidelines
[edit]Guidelines for style, format and organization of the articles to be included in this project have yet to be decided. Please see the talk page to join the discussion on this. Once a general consensus is reached there, those guidelines should be moved here.
Disambiguation
[edit]Open tasks
[edit]- The primary task now is to decide the direction for this project, and establish a set of guidelines as to WHAT this project will work on and HOW we will format articles, categories, etc. This discussion is happening on the talk page. Once a consensus is reached there, a to-do list can be developed.
- Diagrams (in .PNG format) are currently being uploaded for formations, plays, and positions. Check out: Formation (American football) for examples. Please make comments on the talk page.
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Members
[edit]If you want to get involved in this project, please add your name to the list of members. There is a userbox available for members of this project. Please feel free to put this on your userpage by adding {{User WikiProject American football}}. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add [[Category:WikiProject American football members|{{PAGENAME}}]] to the end of your user page.
Articles
[edit]Article alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 20 Dec 2024 – Fair catch kick (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Therguy10 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Dec 2024 – Ripken (dog) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Johnson524 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 21 Dec 2024 – Alabama–Penn State football rivalry (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Purplebackpack89 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 18 Dec 2024 – List of NFL quarterbacks by teams beaten (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion (10 participants)
- 14 Dec 2024 – Carson Vinson (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 14 Dec 2024 – Julian Humphrey (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 10 Dec 2024 – The Simpsons Funday Football (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Esolo5002 (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
- 13 Dec 2024 – Jason Zandamela (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c) was closed as draftify (deleted) by Liz (t · c) on 20 Dec 2024; see discussion (8 participants)
- 09 Dec 2024 – 2024 Texas vs. Texas A&M football game (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Dmoore5556 (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 16 Dec 2024; see discussion (18 participants)
- 01 Dec 2024 – 2024 Chicago Bears–Detroit Lions Thanksgiving game (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c) was closed as redirect by OwenX (t · c) on 16 Dec 2024; see discussion (40 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 20 Dec 2024 – Category:White American football cornerbacks (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Joseph2302 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Dec 2024 – Category:Nesser family (American football) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 29 Nov 2024 – Ripken (dog) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Johnson524 (t · c); start discussion
- 21 Jun 2024 – The Catch II (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gonzo fan2007 (t · c); start discussion
- 17 Jun 2024 – Dez Caught It (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gonzo fan2007 (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be split
- 16 Jun 2024 – American Arena League (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by JalenFolf (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Nov 2023 – High school football (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by The ed17 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 16 Dec 2024 – Draft:Beau Pribula (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TakiLakjsdf (t · c)
- 05 Dec 2024 – Draft:Collin Bauer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MichiganPanther2024 (t · c)
- 16 Nov 2024 – Draft:Colton Boomer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Torreyboomer (t · c)
- 30 Nov 2024 – Draft:Deontay Anderson (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Danjobilly1 (t · c) was declined by QuicoleJR (t · c) on 19 Dec 2024
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[edit]- {{User WikiProject American football}}: This is the userbox template for members of this project. Feel free to add it to your User Page.
- {{WikiProject American football}}: This is the page template for articles that we are working on. Please add it to the TALK page of any article we are working on.
- {{Americanfootball-stub}}: Stub
Categories
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Resources
[edit]Related projects
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League
- Wikipedia:WikiProject College football
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Gridiron in Australia (defunct)
