Welcome to this WikiProject related to Football (soccer). This page and its subpages contain suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or write yourself up below.
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organize standards for football related articles resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and possibly also in featured articles, and also making all articles related to football easy to find.
Goals
Write articles:
- on an overview of football in every country.
- on women's national teams in every country.
- on all notable football clubs in every country.
- on all notable football players in every country.
- on all notable football stadiums in every country.
- on all notable football competitions in every country.
Improve articles:
- to make them comply with standards set up here.
- to make them featured articles eventually.
Categorize articles:
- to make it easy to find what you want to find.
News
- Template created for County Football Associations: {{Template:County Football Association}}; Slight issue re closing the navibox (see "Help please!"); Currently only 7 of the forty or so County FA pages exist, even as stubs, but I'm working on it! --MLD 16:02, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Template created for referees: Template:User Football Referee Expatkiwi 15:38 04 October 2006 (UTC)
- Supported article Everton F.C. has become featured. SenorKristobbal 18:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
- An assessment department has been added to the project. – Elisson • Talk 20:26, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- The Portal main page has been updated. -Aabha (talk) 15:56, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- A subpage listing football articles requiring cleanup has been created. Oldelpaso 20:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Discussion on a requested move from Football World Cup YYYY &c. → YYYY FIFA World Cup &c. is ongoing at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Competitions#Requested move of Football World Cup articles. --Pkchan 09:29, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- A Wikiproject for Non-league football has been created. Tompw 18:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- A separate page has been created (so it won't fill this entire page) were we can/should place any newly created articles related to football that we stumble upon. I've seen this kind of page on a few other projects (for example the Swedish notice board) and I think it is a good idea, if people update it. Let's keep it and see how it goes. -- Elisson • Talk 19:19, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- Templates for the club's squad list have been created: {{Football squad start}}, {{Football squad mid}}, {{Football squad end}}, {{Football squad player}}. There is ongoing discussion about these at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Clubs. --Monkbel 11:36, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
- WikiProject Deletion sorting has a subcategory for Votes for Deletion on articles related to sport. An easy (compared to skimming trough the complete VfD list every day) way to keep track of any football articles going up for VfD. -- Elisson • Talk 12:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
News archive:
Participants
You can find a list of participants here. Joining WikiProject Football is easy - just add your username to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.
Article improvement drive
A weekly collaboration to improve a football-related article to featured article standard: Template:FootballAID
Assessment department
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's football (soccer) related articles.
New articles
For a list of recently created football articles, see:
Featured and good articles
Some of the articles supported by WikiProject Football have reached featured article or featured list status (FA and FL, respectively), meaning they are amongst the very best content in Wikipedia. They are listed below; a bold title indicates the article was "today's featured article" for the date listed. Also included here are articles that are featured article candidates (FAC) that failed, those that have undergone peer review (PR) as part of an effort to get them to FA status, and those that have achieved good article (GA) status, the next-highest level of quality.
Nominations for deletion
Note: If you're thinking about nominating an article for deletion (only articles, not templates or categories), please consider the following two alternative options:
- Does the article meet the criteria for speedy deletion? If so, just tag it with one of the speedy deletion tags and an administrator will delete it (as long as they agree).
- Is the deletion likely to be uncontested? If so then add a proposed deletion tag to it instead; if uncontested after five days, the article will be automatically deleted.
Only if you think the deletion will be contested and debated is it necessary to go through AfD.
When listing a deletion nomination here, please copy-paste the following notice to the deletion discussion: *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football|WikiProject Football]]'s list of football (soccer) related deletions. ~~~~</small>
| Article/Category/Template | Nomination | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Sahar | AfD | 2006-10-16 |
| Andrea Ferrari | AfD | 2006-10-17 |
| Ryan Sugden | AfD | 2006-10-19 |
| 2006 FIFA World Cup crime concerns | AfD | 2006-10-19 |
| Giuseppe Alessi | AfD | 2006-10-20 |
| Gianluca Freddi | AfD | 2006-10-22 |
| Mickaël Le Mener and 10 teammates | AfD | 2006-10-23 |
| Paul Barnes (footballer) and 10 others | AfD | 2006-10-23 |
| Template:Romania Squad Euro 2000 | TfD | 2006-10-17 |
| Template:Original Premier League clubs | TfD | 2006-10-20 |
| Template:AFC Wimbledon Squad | TfD | 2006-10-23 |
| Mark Wilberforce | AfD | 2006-10-25 |
Old deletion nominations can be found in the archive:
Requested articles
Articles that need watching
If you notice an article that regularly needs attention (eg it regularly gets vandalised, attracts a lot of attention from new users, has ongoing edit wars etc.), list it here. If you have time, please add these articles to your watchlist and help out when you notice vandalism/crappy edits etc.
| Article | Date added | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester United F.C. | ? | ? |
| Alex Ferguson | ? | ? |
| David Beckham | ? | ? |
| Liverpool F.C. | ? | ? |
| Chelsea F.C. | ? | ? |
| Hooligan firm | ? | ? |
| Juventus F.C. | ? | ? |
| Football (soccer) | ? | ? |
| FIFA World Rankings | ? | ? |
| FC Barcelona | ? | ? |
| Everton F.C. | ? | ? |
| Frank Lampard | ? | ? |
| Wayne Rooney | ? | ? |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | ? | ? |
| Rangers F.C. | ? | Regular vandalism/bad edits from IP editors especially |
| Football hooliganism | 2006-10-13 | Edit wars/a lot of attention from new users/vandalism |
| Bill Shankly | October 18, 2006 | Regular vandalism since it was the article chosen for improvement |
Watchlist
For participants to be able to follow changes to pages and sub-pages of the project, please add Category:WikiProject Football to any page of the project you create. To follow all changes to the pages, see the related changes of the above mentioned category. This will work as a sort of watchlist for pages related to the project.
Manual of style
Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.
Articles
Manual of style for a few common types of article:
- Club manual of style
- National team manual of style
- National association manual of style
- Competition manual of style
- Match manual of style
- Player manual of style
- Stadium manual of style
Categories
Info on in what category articles should be placed:
Templates
Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:
Notability
How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:
Useful links
A collection of useful external links:
Similar WikiProjects
For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see: