Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/American football/archive2


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted by User:Ian Rose 10:01, 21 November 2013 (UTC).

American football

 * Nominator(s):  Toa   Nidhiki05  17:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I've done a lot of work on it and am confident it meets the featured article criteria. To summarize, this is an article about American football, the most popular type of football in... well, America. This is an introductory article, so it covers the topics in a manner that isn't in-depth or extremely technical. The article includes most everything an article on this topic would need: Overall, this is of similar quality to our two other FA-sports articles (Baseball and Soccer) and I believe it meets the criteria needed for promotion.  Toa   Nidhiki05  17:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * A history section, which covers major milestones in the history of football. It spends the most time on the early years of football but also covers the modern era - it is shorter than the history section on the baseball article, but this is because there is a high-quality featured article, History of American football, which covers the topic in a broader scope.
 * An etymology section (similar to the one in the association football article) that answers the age-old question most non-Americans ask - "why do you call it 'football' if you rarely kick the ball"? It also includes the major terms non-Americans refer to the sport as.
 * A teams and positions section, similar in scope to the rugby union article. Aside from establishing team sizes and noting the platoon system, this also covers all of the traditional, major positions on a football team and their unique roles.
 * A safety section, detailing the sport's use of protective equipment as well as common injuries.
 * A rules section, describing the rules of the sport. This covers all major rules, including scoring, advancing the ball, field dimensions (including metric conversions), timekeeping, as well as the officials.
 * A leagues and tournaments section describing the most popular domestic leagues. This also includes a section on international leagues and the (pipe dream) of getting football in an unmodified form in the Olympics.
 * And finally, a section on variants and related sports. This covers everything from the closely-related sport of Canadian football to more drastic modifications like arena football and touch football.
 * Withdrawing due to not meeting two week criteria.  Toa   Nidhiki05  18:24, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Closing comment -- Thank you for understanding, if a little belatedly, the FAC rules. If you do want to nominate this article in two weeks (as opposed to improving the recently archived 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game for instance), I'd suggest using the time to try another Peer Review for this one and asking a few sports-minded reviewers to take a look. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 10:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
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