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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.
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject American football:
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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
- 26 Jun 2024 – Julian Lewis (American football) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Sam Salz (American football) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Bruxton (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 02 Jul 2024 – Charlie Olmstead (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 02 Jul 2024 – Charlie Lanham (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 02 Jul 2024 – George Meinhardt (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 02 Jul 2024 – Herm Young (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 02 Jul 2024 – Red Shurtliffe (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 01 Jul 2024 – Joseph Chrape (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 01 Jul 2024 – Alec Anderson (American football, born 1894) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cbl62 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 01 Jul 2024 – Boston College–Syracuse football rivalry (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by SportingFlyer (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 01 Jul 2024 – Roman Pritt (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 29 Jun 2024 – 1895 Pacific Tigers football team (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Let'srun (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
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Proposed deletions
Categories for discussion
- 05 Jul 2024 – Category:19th-century players of American football (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Koavf (t · c); see discussion
Templates for discussion
- 29 Jun 2024 – Template:DC Defenders starting quarterback navbox (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Eagles247 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 24 Jun 2024 – Template:Chicago Boosters (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by DB1729 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 24 Jun 2024 – Template:Gary Elks (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by DB1729 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 03 Jul 2024 – Standoff (draw) (talk · edit · hist) →Tie (draw) was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
Featured list candidates
- 26 Jun 2024 – Detroit Lions draft picks (1970–present) (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jun 2024 – List of Jacksonville Jaguars seasons (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 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
- 23 Feb 2024 – Cookie Brinkman (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JTtheOG (t · c); start discussion
- 29 Dec 2023 – Dual-threat quarterback (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Soulbust (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be merged
- 08 Mar 2024 – Halfback (American football) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Halfback (Canadian football) by Bagumba (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jan 2024 – Orlando Predators (2019–) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Orlando Predators by VyveGuy1 (t · c); see 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
- 06 Jul 2024 – Draft:Mt. Lebanon High School Football (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Heidenreichlive (t · c)
- 02 Jul 2024 – Draft:Malik Flowers (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dogloverr16 (t · c)
- 30 Jun 2024 – Draft:Reşiţa Locomotives (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 22 Jun 2024 – Draft:David Lombardi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wickster12345 (t · c)
- 16 Jun 2024 – Draft:Kyler McMichael (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Purpetic (t · c)
- 01 Jun 2024 – Draft:Darrius Clemons (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dogloverr16 (t · c)
- 16 May 2024 – Draft:Khalil Jacobs (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dogloverr16 (t · c)
- 03 May 2024 – Draft:Dartez Jacobs (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Panthergrid (t · c)
- 01 May 2024 – Draft:Lincoln Sefcik (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dogloverr16 (t · c)
- 30 Apr 2024 – Draft:Tom Donatell (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MuteebKhann2003 (t · c)
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Templates[edit]
- {{User WP 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[edit]
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Resources[edit]
Related projects[edit]
- Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League
- Wikipedia:WikiProject College football
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Gridiron in Australia
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports#American football for an up-to-date list