Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive

Article Improvement Drive

This week's football improvement drive is part of the WikiProject on Football and is a fortnightly collaboration to improve football (soccer) articles to featured article status. Past collaborations are found on the history page, while removed nominations may be found on the removed nominations page. Previous winners that have gone on to become featured articles can be found at Featured collaborations.

Nomination and voting

Articles to be improved can be nominated by registered users in the "nominations" section below, with an explanation of what work is needed. To nominate an article, you can copy the template that you will below. Please do not nominate articles involved in edit wars. Each Sunday, the article with the most support votes is chosen. Opposing votes are not counted, the nomination is an approval voting. In case of a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins. Articles need three votes per fortnight to stay on the list. You can vote for as many articles as you like. As with any other vote on Wikipedia, sockpuppets are banned.

Renominating

An article that is removed from the nominations list for failing to receive the required number of votes by the stipulated date cannot be renominated till one month after the date it is moved to the current removed nominations page.

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Considerations for nominators and voters

• Giving reasons as to why an article should become the Football AID may convince others to cast their vote.
• Can the wider football community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
• Is the article one which you are prepared to work on?

Nominations

The next project article is to be selected on Sunday June 24.

Please add new nominations at the bottom of this section.

List of men's national football (soccer) teams

Nominated June 24 2007; needs at least 3 votes by July 8 2007

Reason:

Needs a bit of cleanup and some expansion, but I reckon this could be a potential featured list with the addition of some more information and perhaps a change of format. WATP ^(talk) • _(contribs) 11:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Support:

1. WATP ^(talk) • _(contribs) 11:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
2. PeeJay 13:48, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
3. к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 13:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
4. Nergaal (talk) 14:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Oppose:

1. Hadrianos1990 07:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC) because the article is not well organized

Comments:

• We could put some tables in and add the info found in national team infoboxes, i.e. date formed, first match, most capped player etc. к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 13:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
• why oppose because of organization? the nomination would ensure that the organization is reviewed and maybe changed to a better oneNergaal (talk) 14:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

To-do list

• Cleanup
• References
• Expand

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Real Madrid C.F.

Nominated October 13 2007; needs at least 3 votes by October 27 2007

Reason:

Very improvement article, and well ordering.

Support:

1. Saudi⁹⁹⁹⁹ 11:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
2. Hadrianos1990 07:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
3. Avia 11:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

To-do list

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Sparta Rotterdam

Nominated November 16 2007; needs at least 3 votes by November 30 2007

Reason:

• Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football club in the Netherlands, and up to a few years ago was one of only four clubs (along with Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord) to have played in the Eredivisie since its establishment in 1956. The club has won the national championship 6 times. It is also the club of the first Dutch football superstar, Bok de Korver. And on April 1, 2008, the club will celebrate its 120th anniversary. I think it would be a fitting tribute to have this article on the Main Page on that day. Aecis^Brievenbus 01:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Support:

1. Aecis^Brievenbus 01:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
2. Only a stub? D: _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} ^{tell me a joke...} 19:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

To-do list

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How to nominate an article

Note to contributors:

To add a new nomination, please:

(1) Copy the template below

(2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations

(3) Replace "day" with the correct date and "day + 14" with the date, plus seven days.

(4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated. Optionally, add a to-do list at the bottom

(5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

(6) Save your nomination

(7) After nominating an article please place {{FootballIDRIVE}} on the article's talk page.

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Templates

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{FootballIDRIVE}}		On discussion pages of nominated articles.
{{FootballIDRIVECurrent}}		On discussion pages of the current collaboration.

See also

• /current collaboration
• Old nominations - 2005 - June 2006 | July 2006 - present