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 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

When two players with the same name have played in the same era but in different leagues, they should be disambiguated by league. That means, if there are three players named "John Smith", and each has played the majority of their careers in different leagues, one should be [[John Smith (National Football League]], [[John Smith (Canadian Football League)]], and [[John Smith (Arena Football League)]]

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.

Members

Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with an asterisk and three tildes * ~~~

• Jayron32 -- founded the project, will help where I can.
• Cruisin' -- especially familiar w/ Steelers and Lions.
• Jcam -- seeing the need for help on many "generic" American football articles(those which may be applicable to pro, college, high school and/or other levels of football, I gladly join this project.
• IAMTHEEGGMAN -- Ill help
• BlackWatch21 02:23, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
• Giantsrule -- Hey, I can try to help, I am already making good stubs of all players in the league, I have started with the San Francisco 49ers
• Daniel11 -- started the page on American football strategy a while ago, was hoping to see a project like this arrive.
• Megamanic -- I'll do what I can, when I can
• Teh tennisman--Why not; I know some about NFL.
• BigDT -- more geared towards college, but I can help elsewhere
• Emazwmenos 10:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• JohnnyRush10 -- I can help out with a few college profiles and some NFL
• Breno - Working on Australian gridiron coverage
• Desert sapper -- I am already working on some college football projects, specifically OU Sooner stuff.
• Wikizilla ^{(Talk)signme!}
• Slysplace - had been slowly working on cleaning up the NFL Draft pages on and off line. I Believe this series is almost complete.
• EscapingLife - Big NFL follower, try to update on NFL draft/clean pages
• Life, Liberty, Property - Big fan of football in general.
• Pupster21 12:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)-- All football.
• Intrepidsfsu -- Working on western mid-major and small college schools, but would like to see strategy expanded
• Wlmaltby3 (talk · contribs)
• John 23:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
• Elkman8102 -- I have been working on pages for awhile and have extensive knowledge.
• Jmfangio 07:30, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
• Lothar the Terrible -- Texas High School football, particularly small town (2A and 1A) and six man.
• Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 03:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC) by the way, people keep in mind American Football has a bigger scope than National Football League
• Ivey (talk)
• Mickeyp2814 - I enjoy the history of the game and will make contributions in that area. I will also contribute to anything Texans. Looking forward to working with you all! --Mickeyp2814 (talk) 18:48, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
• Shootmaster 44 - I will contribute anything 49ers, as well as minor pro leagues like the AAFL, XFL and WLAF.
• AMRDeuce (talk) - I contribute to all the AAFL articles.
• B e t t i a ♦ ^{t a k i l} - currently working on BAFL related articles.
• B.Wind (talk) - focusing on at least four American Football Leagues (pre-AAFC) and more significant pre-1946 leagues such as the Pacific Coast Professional Football League (and the 1944 AFL that competed with the PCPFL one year before merging with it), which was integrated before the AAFC.
• JamesCollins (talk) 02:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC) - working on some BAFA articles and any general football articles I spot that I know something about.
• Sgt Crimedog (talk) 03:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
•  JAGUITAR  (Contact me) 14:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
• User:JakeH07 I'd like to improve articles in general especially the postions and rules
• User:Sissi 90 -- I'm particularly familiar with American Football championships in Italy
• IloveIndy (talk) - I think the six man article needs some help...
• Banderas (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
• Burningview (talk) -- I'm glad to give my support in this project, very knowledgable in college football.
• DeMoN2009 - I'll help where I can!
• 2008Olympian^chitchat Hello Nurse!.
• FootballAuthority 06:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• Victoria1286 (talk)
• Concrete 19:26, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Articles

A cursory glance at the American football category and subcategories reveals the following articles are probably within the scope of this project. Feel free to create, remove, move, merge, improve, or do anything else to these or any other articles you feel will fit the scope of the project. Please make any notes on the talk page of this project AND of the pages in question when dealing with these articles.

Featured content

• History of American football — Sept 19, 2007

New articles

Please feel free to list your new American football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

• New York Yankees (1936 AFL) is now a stub, leaving only the Boston Shamrocks as the only member of AFL I, AFL II, AFL III, or AFL IV without a standalone article (it is currently a redirect). In addition, American Football League (1938) has been expanded and moved to Midwest Football League, its longer-running predecessor. B.Wind (talk) 22:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
• Louisville Tanks is up and running - four league championships in its five season existence. B.Wind (talk) 23:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
• Buffalo Indians has been expanded; new American Football League (1934) has been written. B.Wind (talk) 20:20, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
• New stubs have been written for AFL III teams Boston Bears (AFL), Milwaukee Chiefs (AFL), and Buffalo Indians. These and the other AFL III stubs (Cincinnati Bengals (AFL) - the only team to have been in three AFLs - Columbus Bullies, and New York Yankees (1940 AFL) all need more information, but at least they're stubs. B.Wind (talk) 23:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
• Association of Professional Football Leagues - new article covering the compact between the "big three" and the NFL (1946-1948) and the first (only?) attempt to form the football analog of Organized Baseball. B.Wind (talk) 20:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
• Dixie League (football) - a new article of a significant minor ("big three") league, including an account of how a successful league imploded when one of its charter members jumped to another league. B.Wind (talk) 00:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
• Barcelona Búfals
• Gijón Mariners
• Granada Lions
• Sevilla Linces
• Valencia Firebats
• LNFA
• LNFA 2
• Philadelphia Quakers (AFL) - scraped clean and started anew. History is looking better, but I need another pair of eyes regarding the format. Any volunteers (please)? B.Wind (talk) 05:33, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Boston Bulldogs (AFL) - scraped clean and started anew. B.Wind (talk) 04:59, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Cleveland Panthers - another article about an AFL I franchise that had no fewer than 12 players who had NFL careers. (Note: Cookie Cunningham is in dire need of an article, either from this WikiProject or WikiProject Basketball) B.Wind (talk) 05:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• Newark Bears (AFL) - just-written article on the first casualty of the first AFL-NFL war (in 1926). B.Wind (talk) 17:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Los Angeles Wildcats - posted today by me. B.Wind (talk) 06:22, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• Template:American football club - a generic version of the NFL team and CFL team infoboxes, which hopefully could be used on articles for teams outside these two major leagues. Bettia ^(talk) 08:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• American Association (football) - posted yesterday by me. Relies heavily on one source - more are needed. B.Wind (talk) 05:46, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
• Los Angeles Bulldogs - created today by me. Could use a picture or two, and scanning by another pair of eyes. B.Wind (talk) 04:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
• Pacific Coast Professional Football League - created yesterday by me. Could use another pair of eyes or three since I'm dyslexic. B.Wind (talk) 03:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
• List of American football stadiums by capacity - created today by me Willy turner 01:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

• List of American football teams in the United Kingdom

Assessment

• Hampshire Thrashers - I've just given this page a total revamp and I'd appreciate a rating and some suggestions on any possible improvements. Ta very much. B e t t i a ♦ ^{t a k i l} 16:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
• Edinburgh Wolves - Would be apprecative of anything else anyone can think of to improve this. Working on getting more refs at the mo.

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

Categories

• Category:American football
• Category:American football strategy

Resources

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League
• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gridiron in Australia

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports#American football for an up-to-date list