User:Alistairjh/WP:FV

This is a test page for the taskforce on association football variants if it becomes a WikiProject.

       WikiProject Football Variants         Welcome to WikiProject Football Variants.

Scope
This taskforce covers...
 * Any variant of football including:
 * 3v3 Soccer
 * Five-a-side football
 * Beach Soccer
 * Futsal
 * Indoor soccer
 * The full list can be found here .


 * However, if the variant of football is already covered by its own project/taskforce within Wikipedia, do the following:
 * Add the categories to the main article's talk page. (See Assessment for more details.)
 * If there is an article relating to the history of the sport, put the categories on their talk page as well.
 * Do not use Football. Not only would it be covered by the categories, but it may cause some controversy. Although more publicity for this task force is good, I don't think that is the kind we want.

Participants
Wikipedians interested in participating should add themselves to the bottom of the list.



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Assessment
The assessment department assess the quality of Wikipedia's football variant articles. The work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, and the assessments are also used within the project to recognize contributions and identify topics in need of work.

The ratings are done through parameters in the Football Variant project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Automation
The automation department uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

Peer review
The peer review department conducts peer reviews of football variant related articles. This helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

To Do

 * Assess all articles relating to variants of Association Football.
 * Request or create articles (requests should be made below).
 * Make Variants of association football into a better article (if possible).
 * Recruit more members to the taskforce.
 * Create Selected Pictures and Selected Articles for all weeks in Portal:Association Football Variants
 * Find, create and verify references for the articles that the taskforce has tagged.
 * Find and create pictures relating to the articles that the taskforce has tagged, and put them in Wikimedia Commons.
 * Using the articles, references and pictures, try and make every article better.

Article Alerts
To put this on another page use.

Cleanup Listing
Click here to see football variant articles that need to be cleaned up to meet Wikipedia's high standards.

Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Culture
 * WikiProject Sport
 * WikiProject Football
 * WikiProject Argentine football
 * WikiProject Australian football
 * Taskforce on English football
 * WikiProject on German football
 * WikiProject Iranian football
 * WikiProject Irish football
 * Taskforce on Italian football
 * Taskforce on Dutch football
 * Taskforce on Spanish football
 * Taskforce on Taiwanese football
 * Taskforce on football in the USA and Canada
 * Taskforce on Women's football
 * Taskforce on Association Football variants.
 * WikiProject Sports Results
 * WikiProject Arts
 * WikiProject Architecture
 * WikiProject Event Venues
 * Taskforce on sport venues
 * WikiProject Biography
 * Sports and games biography work group

This is the tree for all related projects. Projects in italics are ones that are not related to us directly, but have went through the maze of sub-projects and task forces.

Creating and editing articles
All created articles should follow both the Project Manual of Style and Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

For the sport itself, use a sport template. At the start, make a brief description of the sport (with some pictures if possible). Then add a section devoted to informing the reader of how the sport differs from football itself. After this, write a brief history (if you can create a in-depth history of the sport, make this another article). Next, write about the arena and equipment involved, and finally add some links/references.

For clubs, use the football templates and guides to make articles better.

For players and managers, use the football templates and guides to make biographical articles better. If the person has played/managed in more than one sport (e.g. Football and Futsal), write the club's name as normal, but then state the name of the variant in brackets and italics.


 * 1997-2000 Example F.C.
 * 2000-2001 Imaginary F.C. (Futsal)

For competitions, use the football templates and guides to make articles better.

Notability
Only notable articles can be created. These are the guidelines for athletes and footballers

Athletes (from WP:ATHLETE)

 * People who have competed at the fully professional level of a sport, or a competition of equivalent standing in a non-league sport such as swimming, golf or tennis.
 * People who have competed at the highest amateur level of a sport, usually considered to mean the Olympic Games or World Championships.

Templates
A template for a separate sport from Football, such as Futsal and Beach Soccer, would be Any templates for venues, clubs, leagues, and players see WikiProject Football/Templates, or a list of templates that may be helpful at Category:Football (soccer) templates.

Userbox template
gives you

Resources
A list of sources can be found here.

Images
Click here to see images relating to Association Football variants.