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 WikiProject on Football |
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| Main project | talk |
| Task forces and sub-projects | talk |
| Football portal | talk |
| New articles | talk |
| Cleanup articles | talk |
| Football AID | |
| Article improvement drive | talk |
| Previous collaborations | talk |
| Featured collaborations | talk |
| Previous nominations | talk |
| Football Assessment | |
| Assessment Department | talk |
| Assessment log | talk |
| Manual of style | |
| Club articles | talk |
| Club templates | talk |
| National team articles | talk |
| National team templates | talk |
| National association articles | talk |
| National assn. templates | talk |
| Competition articles | talk |
| Match articles | talk |
| Player articles | talk |
| Stadium articles | talk |
| Other | |
| Category structure | talk |
| Notability criteria | talk |
| Template list | talk |
| Sources and links | talk |
| Participants | talk |
| Project milestones | talk |
| Did You Know? archive | talk |
| · changes | |
Welcome to this WikiProject related to Association football. 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. The significant milestones and achievements of the project can be found at the Milestones subpage.
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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.
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.
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:
Sources
Members of the project have collected a list of sources and links that could be of help to editors wishing to expand articles. The links collection lists all the websites of governing bodies such as FIFA and UEFA. It also contains player databases for all levels of competition, from National level to club level. The booklist lists some of the books that project members own. These members can be contacted for help in sourcing if information from these books is needed.
Assessment department
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's football (soccer) related articles.
Open tasks
New articles
For a list of recently created football articles, see:
Requested articles
- Follow this link to go to the specific section of Wikipedia:Requested articles that lists the requested articles for football.
Articles currently under a review
This section lists those articles that are currently undergoing Peer review or are currently featured content candidates. Current good article candidates can be found on the good article candidates page under the Sports subheading.
| Current Featured Content candidates | |||
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| Article | Status | Peer Review | FAC/FLC |
| Chelsea F.C. | Featured Article Review | FAR | |
| Gillingham F.C. records | Featured List Candidate | 1st, 2nd | FLC |
| List of UEFA club competition winners | Featured List Candidate | PR | FLC |
| Portal:Association football | Featured Portal Candidate | PPR | FPOC |
| Articles currently undergoing peer review | |||
| Article | Status | Peer Review | FAC/FLC |
| Andrew Crofts (footballer) | Current PR | PR | |
| 1956 FA Cup Final | Current PR | PR | |
Nominations for deletion and page moves
Important: 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 or page move nomination here, please copy-paste the relevant notice to the deletion discussion:
- *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football related deletions. ~~~~</small>
- *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football related page moves. ~~~~</small>
- See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football where deletion nominations are sometimes listed.
Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:
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.
The table below lists articles that regularly need attention. This is usually because of higher rates of vandalism than other pages, it attracts a lot of attention from new users or if it is currently in the middle of an edit war. If you have time, please add these articles to your watchlist and help out when you notice vandalism/crappy edits etc.
There is currently a rough set of criteria for inclusion in this list. These are:
- three instances of vandalism/reverts in a week.
- Or, if the article is currently under some form of page protection, this can be extended to two weeks.
- Longterm
| Article | Date added | Date validated | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-12-19 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2007-09-05 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2007-09-05 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2006-12-11 | 2007-09-05 | Page is regularly vandalised, (Semi-Protected indefinitely) | |
| 2007-09-05 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2007-09-05 | List of current rankings frequently vandalised | ||
| 2007-10-19 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2007-09-05 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2007-09-05 | High-profile target for vandals | ||
| 2007-09-05 | Slight vandalism, semi-protected | ||
| 2006-10-13 | 2007-09-25 | Edit wars/a lot of attention from new users/vandalism, (now semi-protected) | |
| 2006-11-29 | 2007-09-25 | Vandalism from mainly IP editors, but also registered users who vandalise after requests not to. (now semi) | |
| 2007-01-21 | 2007-09-25 | Continuous petty vandalism (now semi-protected) | |
| 2007-05-14 | 2007-09-25 | General vandalism, some related to Tevez. | |
| 2007-04-23 | 2007-09-25 | Continuous edits by vandalism and hot-blooded fans (all IP users) | |
| 2007-04-30 | 2007-09-25 | Constant vandalism by anon editors | |
| 2007-05-22 | 2007-09-25 | Persistent sock vandal changing players' nationalities. Page now Fully protected, | |
| 2007-06-01 | 2007-12-03 | High levels of vandalism and other bad edits. | |
| 2007-06-01 | 2007-09-25 | Edit war and block evasion, fully protected | |
| 2007-06-10 | 2007-09-25 | High profile target for vandals | |
| 2007-07-19 | 2007-10-20 | High profile target for vandals, unsourced information being added and false info being purposely introduced. | |
| 2007-07-19 | 2007-11-13 | High profile target for vandals | |
| 2007-09-13 | 2007-11-13 | General vandalism from fans and rival fans | |
| 2007-09-30 | 2007-11-13 | High-profile target for vandals. Often insults and WP:BLP violations. | |
| 2007-10-02 | 2007-11-13 | General vandalism, mainly from various IP addresses. | |
| 2008-02-24 | Rampant vandalism following his injury against Birmingham City | ||
| 2008-02-24 | Some vandalism following his red card against Arsenal |
- Short term
| Article | Date added | Date validated | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-31 | Semi-protected due to heavy vandalism by multiple IP's. | ||
| 2008-07-31 | High profile target for vandals | ||
| 2008-08-29 | High level of IP vandalism. | ||
| 2008-09-13 | Lots of activity regarding Keane's country of birth, particularly from IPs | ||
| 2008-10-07 | Continued High level of vandalism |
Showcase
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.
Featured content
| Featured articles | |||
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| Article | Status | Peer Review | FAC |
 2007 UEFA Champions League Final (January 13, 2008) |
Featured Article | PR | FAC, FAR |
| Arsenal F.C. (November 7, 2005) |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Association football (November 20, 2006) |
Featured Article | FAC, FAR , | |
| Aston Villa F.C. |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Steve Bruce |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Central Coast Mariners FC |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Chelsea F.C. |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| City of Manchester Stadium (April 21, 2007) |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Derry City F.C. |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Dover Athletic F.C. |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| Duncan Edwards |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |
| England national football team managers |
Featured Article | PR 1st, 2nd | FAC |
| Everton F.C. |
Featured Article | PR | FAC, FAR |
| FIFA World Cup (June 8, 2006) |
Featured Article | PR | FAC 1st, 2nd, FAR |
| German women's national football team |
Featured Article | PR | FAC |