Wikipedia:WikiProject American football

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

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

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

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

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#Gridiron football

Open tasks

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: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-01-18

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Wikipedia:Requested articles/American football, head coach (American football): similar to coach (baseball) or coach (basketball)?
- Quarterback is in desperate need of cited sources and (most likely) cleanup
- Merge : * Flag football, Touch football (American), and Street football (American) all exist as problematic articles independent of one another. I'd like to see discussion on whether the three should be merged into a single article under flag football or just addressed under American_football#Variations_and_related_sports. They are very problematic articles because there is no uniform set of rules or notable leagues, but well-meaning editors all over the country often think that their local rules or league are standard or notable.
- Other : * Upload pictures for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of American football

Members

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

Article alerts

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

07 Mar 2021 – Mike Holmes (cornerback) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Elli (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
02 Mar 2021 – Reginald Davis III (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Eagles247 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
01 Mar 2021 – Tim Knicky (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Eagles247 (t · c) was closed as delete by Daniel (t · c) on 08 Mar 2021; see discussion (4 participants)
28 Feb 2021 – Douglas Legate Howard (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mztourist (t · c) was withdrawn by Eagles247 (t · c) on 01 Mar 2021; see discussion (7 participants)
23 Feb 2021 – Lloyd Yancey (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Etzedek24 (t · c) was closed as delete by Premeditated Chaos (t · c) on 02 Mar 2021; see discussion (6 participants)
23 Feb 2021 – Drane Scrivener (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Eagles247 (t · c) was closed as delete by Spartaz (t · c) on 06 Mar 2021; see discussion (14 participants)

Proposed deletions

07 Mar 2021 – Brian Jean-Mary (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Onel5969 (t · c): Meets neither WP:GNG or WP:NSPORTS
07 Mar 2021 – George Helow (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Onel5969 (t · c): Meets neither WP:GNG or WP:NSPORTS.
06 Mar 2021 – Ty Howle (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Onel5969 (t · c) was deproded by Eagles247 (t · c) on 07 Mar 2021

Good article nominees

27 Nov 2020 – Kyler Murray (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lucky7jrk (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

21 Jan 2021 – Advanced metrics (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sports analytics by Teratix (t · c); see discussion
05 Aug 2020 – Roughing the passer (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Roughing the kicker by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
05 Aug 2020 – Roughing the kicker (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Roughing the passer by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

27 Feb 2021 – Draft:Benny Hondo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AuthenticReality (t · c)
13 Feb 2021 – Draft:European League of Football (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bn5660 (t · c)
23 Jan 2021 – Draft:Al Netter (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CFBSTAFF2020 (t · c)
05 Jan 2021 – Draft:Erik Kimrey (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Parksj1 (t · c)
21 Dec 2020 – Draft:Jaren Hall (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Alienmandosaur (t · c)
undated – Draft:Jaylon Moore (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
undated – Draft:Vinnie Tortorich (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
28 Feb 2021 – Draft:Travis Tucker Former NFL Player (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Familyplus4 (t · c) was moved to Draft:Travis Tucker (talk · edit · hist) by Eagles247 (t · c) (author) on 01 Mar 2021

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Templates

{{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

Resources

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External links

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