Wikipedia:How many footballers

This essay, WP:How many footballers, refers to the number of articles about footballers in the English Wikipedia, which contains more than 0 footballer articles. More are added each day, where website Playerhistory.com has listed over 242,000 footballers, as an idea of how many articles there could be. The current count, here, can be estimated by counting the entries in each national category of association football players:


 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:English footballers}} =
 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:French footballers}} =
 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:German footballers}} =
 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:Australian footballers}} =
 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:Australian soccer players}} =
 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:American soccer players}} =

However, to use the number in a calculation, get "|R" format:
 * {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:English footballers|R}} =

For the total, add all the national categories together: The expression of the separate counts for each national category is the following set of added numbers:
 * Total of 104 nations: 0

}}
 * Expression of adding category counts: {#expr: NaN
 * Expression of adding category counts: {#expr: NaN
 * }

Adding the category counts together is an effective method for estimating the total of footballer articles.


 * [ This essay is a rough draft to be expanded later. ]