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Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

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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.

Scope

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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.

Did you know?
These extracts from newly created football articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on the date shown. A full archive of all football related entries is maintained on Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Did you know.

Goals

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Write articles:

  1. on an overview of football in every country.
  2. on women's national teams in every country.
  3. on all notable football clubs in every country.
  4. on all notable football players in every country.
  5. on all notable football stadiums in every country.
  6. on all notable football competitions in every country.

Improve articles:

  1. to make them comply with standards set up here.
  2. to make them featured articles eventually.

Categorize articles:

  1. to make it easy to find what you want to find.

Obtain non-copyrighted images to improve the quality of our articles

Members

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You can find a list of all Members 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

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Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles

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Manual of style for a few common types of article:

For player naming conventions and disambiguation, please see the association football section at Wikipedia:Naming conventions.

Categories

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Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Templates

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Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:

Notability

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How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:

Sources

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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

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Assessment

The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Association football related articles.

The proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner is:

99.9% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

96.1% known importance (estimate: some more articles may still need a banner)

   

FIFA national football teams coloured by article class (9 August 2019)
FIFA national women's football teams coloured by class (26 July 2023)

Article statistics

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Football articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 21 53 123 198
FL 4 23 263 290
GA 57 299 583 939
B 19 231 664 842 1,756
C 16 296 3,017 6,944 4 10,277
Start 6 393 14,533 78,126 1 223 93,282
Stub 4 32,471 161,035 1 17,486 210,997
List 3 16 298 8,468 99 8,884
Category 83,664 83,664
Disambig 142 142
File 17,345 17,345
Portal 458 458
Project 276 276
Redirect 8 7,121 7,129
Template 22,429 22,429
NA 13 4,912 4,925
Other 1 482 483
Assessed 45 1,022 51,358 256,406 136,831 17,812 463,474
Unassessed 1 9 6 475 491
Total 45 1,022 51,359 256,415 136,837 18,287 463,965
See also: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Football articles by quality log

Open tasks

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New articles

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For a list of recently created football articles, see:

Requested articles

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Articles currently under a review

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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 nominations page under the Sports subheading.

Current featured content candidates
Article Status Peer Review FAC/FLC/FGTC
Teddy Wynyard Current FAC FAC
2004–05 Gillingham F.C. season Current FAC FAC
1914–15 Gillingham F.C. season Current FAC FAC
List of Chivas USA managers Current FLC FLC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
Darren Moore Current GAN GAN
New England Revolution in international competition Current GAN GAN
Gedling Miners Welfare F.C. Current GAN GAN
Warren Zaïre-Emery Current GAN GAN
Beth Mead Current GAN GAN
Adrar Stadium Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating
Thomas Tuchel Peer review PR Good Article

Nominations for deletion and page moves

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football
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Important
If you're thinking about nominating an article for deletion (only articles, not templates or categories), please consider the following two alternative options:

Only if you think the deletion will be contested and debated is it necessary to go through AfD.

When listing a nomination or discussion here, please copy-paste the relevant notice to the discussion:

*<small>Note: 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>Note: 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>
*<small>Note: This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football-related page discussions. ~~~~</small>
  • Once you have nominated an article for PROD or AfD, it is considered polite to inform the article's creator of the decision so that they have a chance to contest the deletion if need be. Templates for informing article creators can be found in the tag links above.
Article/Category/Template Nom Date
Zemun Stadium (2nd nomination) AfD 2024-12-09
Severo Tiago AfD 2024-12-20
Andrej Hanták AfD 2024-12-21
All-time Atlanta Silverbacks roster AfD 2024-12-21
Timoleon Patronis AfD 2024-12-22
Charis Fourkiotis AfD 2024-12-22
Alex Culwell AfD 2024-12-23
List of men's footballers with the most official appearances (including youth internationals & reserves) AfD 2024-12-24
Southern Derby (Serbia) AfD 2024-12-25
Lalbiakzuala AfD 2024-12-25
Angelos Bountalis AfD 2024-12-26
Jakub Selnar AfD 2024-12-26
Turkish Women's Football Super League → Süper Lig (women) RM 2024-10-23
OFC Champions League → OFC Men's Champions League RM 2024-12-19
Luís Pinto → Luís Pinto (footballer) RM 2024-12-20
Dakkada → Dakkada F.C. RM 2024-12-20
CS Unirea Tărlungeni → ASC Ciucaș Tărlungeni RM 2024-12-22
Mohamed Mustafa → Mohamed Mustafa (Sudanese footballer) RM 2024-12-22
Fábio Pereira (football manager) → Fábio Pereira (footballer, born 1978) RM 2024-12-24
Rui Borges (footballer, born 1981) → Rui Borges RM 2024-12-24
Template:C.F. União squad TfD 2024-12-21
Template:1900–01 Copa Macaya table TfD 2024-12-22
Template:Canadian U-17 Players of the Year TfD 2024-12-22

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

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See also: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football, where deletion nominations are sometimes listed.
For BLPPRODs, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Unreferenced BLPs/Full list.

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Proposed deletions

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Categories for discussion

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Featured article candidates

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Good article nominees

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Good article reassessments

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Articles to be merged

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Recognised content

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Recognised content

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" or "today's featured list" 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

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Previously reviewed articles

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This section lists articles that have gone through an external peer review. This includes articles that have been through a peer review, or a featured article or featured list nomination but were deemed to have failed to meet the criteria at the time. It also lists those articles were previously featured but subsequently de-listed due to a featured article review.

Vital articles

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Some of the articles supported by WikiProject Football have been selected as Wikipedia's "vital articles". They are listed here.

Similar WikiProjects

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For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see:

Descendent WikiProjects

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For an up-to-date WikiProject Council directory listing for football, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports § Association football, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Task forces and sub-projects.
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