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 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 in the scope of other projects, such as WikiProject National Football League and 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

 * Naming conventions (sportspeople)

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
If you want to get involved in this project, please add your name to the list of members. There is a userbox available for members of this project. Please feel free to put this on your userpage by adding User WikiProject American football. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add to the end of your user page.

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
 * Americanfootball-stub: Stub

Categories

 * Category:American football strategy

Related projects

 * WikiProject National Football League
 * WikiProject College football
 * WikiProject Gridiron in Australia
 * See WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports for an up-to-date list