Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian rules football/Players

For complete lists of what is left to do, see the following sub pages or the links to each club's full player list or the lists of players by year of debut.

  • ToDo for a list of AFL/VFL players who played in multiple seasons & do not seem to have a page (long, over 3500 names).
  • ToDo single season for a list of AFL/VFL players who only played in a single season & do not seem to have a page (long, almost 2800 names).
  • ToDo counter, an infrequently manually updated count of how many players remain without pages.

For players from the early years of the VFL who didn't play many games, nor win any awards, it may be preferable to only list them on disambigation pages or only as a redirect to the list of club players, rather than creating individual player pages. The current preferrence, however, is to still create dedicated pages for each player.

Article naming

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Where there is already another person of the same name with an article, the preferred disambiguation method is:

  1. John Citizen (footballer), unless there is another footballer (of any code, even rugby) with the same name
  2. John Citizen (Australian footballer), unless there is another Australian footballer of any code with the same name
  3. John Citizen (Australian rules footballer), unless there are multiple Australian rules footballers with the same name
  4. John Citizen Jr. and John Citizen Sr., if that is the common way of differentiating between father and son with the same name
  5. John Citizen (footballer, born 1900), unless there are multiple footballers of the same name and birth year, then (Australian footballer, born 1900) or (Australian rules footballer, born 1900) should be considered
  6. John R. Citizen, middle initials should only be used if they are well known (and commonly used), or all other options remain ambiguous.

Using (AFL footballer), (VFL footballer), (Collingwood footballer) or similar is discouraged. If in doubt, ask at the project talk page.

Approximate counter

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Club # of Players Approx # of player
articles created
% Complete
Adelaide 215 274 100%
Brisbane Bears 143 145 100%
Brisbane Lions 194 240 100%
Carlton 1188 1240 100%
Collingwood 1144 1195 100%
Essendon 1150 1201 100%
Fitzroy 1156 1156 100%
Fremantle 201 255 100%
Geelong 1071 1121 100%
Gold Coast 97 153 100%
GWS 83 131 100%
Hawthorn 917 980 108%
Melbourne 1335 1378 100%
North Melbourne 1006 1067 107%
Port Adelaide 169 220 100%
Richmond 1153 1196 100%
St Kilda 1589 1644 104%
Sydney 1411 1449 103%
University 112 115 100%
West Coast 234 286 100%
Western Bulldogs 1000 1047 100%

Notes:

  1. The Approx # of player articles created and % Complete columns use the pages in category function, which may include lists, representative teams or junior players, that aren't included in the number of actual players, hence the approximate nature of the count.
  2. # of players is correct as of the end of the 2017 AFL season
  3. Players who played for more than one club are counted multiple times in the above list