Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian rules football

Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organise standards for Australian rules football-related articles resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and to gather a community of Australian rules football fans to further the development of information of the sport on Wikipedia. Articles include details on the game itself, as well as notable competitions, players, coaches, commentators and administrators.

The national Australian Football League is the largest and most notable Australian rules football competition in Australia. However, details related to the various state and overseas leagues as well as historical competitions, are also within the scope of this Project.

What is Australian rules football?
See the Australian rules football for more details.

What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia, that ANYONE (yes, even you) can edit. If you know anything about Australian rules football, feel free to add it to this site.

List of participants
Join WikiProject Australian rules football by adding your name to the following list. Joining doesn't really do anything, non-members can still edit all articles, but joining simply lets the other members know who's interested in the great Aussie game.

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(Members: 236 as of 11:32, 23 September 2017 (UTC))

Tasks to be completed
The WikiProject Australian rules football to do list contains information on players, coaches, clubs, commentators and anything else that is relevant within the scope of this WikiProject.

There is an automated WikiProject cleanup list bot that creates cleanup lists for the project, either as project's one big table, separated by categories or manually archived in projectspace.

Stats bot
A stats bot that scrapes afltables.com weekly during the season for any stat changes for players, automatically applying these stats in the info box as well as the detailed stats at the bottom of each page (where applicable)

Email correspondence below as a reply to my inquiry to the steward of afltables.com:

On 8/04/2024 11:03 am, Electrmicmaster wrote: Hi! I’ve been meaning for a while to create a bot that automatically synchronises player stats with their respective Wikipedia page. This would probably require weekly site syncs. In case you didn’t know, someone of the players are a year or two out of date; having an automatic sync would be a huge help. What do you think? Is this something that is viable with your site? I’ve seen other codes that do it.

Cheers!

Electrmicmaster, I have thought about producing, along with the regular HTML, a text file containing the wiki markup for each player. Never came to anything, and probably won't. This means I'm down with the idea, but don't want do to the work :P

So if you want to do all the heavy lifting, I can give you the historical data up to the end of 2023, then the weekly updated stat file can be parsed to append 2024.

Good Article targets
Prioritise focus on completing the Good Article project tables for the following categories:

Grand Finals in the VFL/AFL since 1898
Numbers of articles that reached at least GA-status: 1

Legend Inductees in the Australian Football Hall of Fame
Numbers of articles that reached at least GA-status: 1

Clubs in the AFL
Numbers of articles that reached at least GA-status: 2

Australian Football Hall of Fame category addition in external links
Talk:Australian_Football_Hall_of_Fame

Assessment progress
Of the articles overseen by WikiProject Australian rules football:

Useful links

 * See New Australian rules football articles
 * Recent changes to Australian rules football related articles
 * Recent changes to currently listed AFL player articles

Lists

 * List of overseas-born AFL players
 * List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
 * Category:Lists of players of Australian rules football
 * List of Australian rules football leagues in Australia
 * List of Australian rules football leagues outside Australia
 * List of Australian rules football umpires
 * List of AFL players to have played more than 300 games

Notability requirements
As part of Wikipedia, our project is required to abide by the notability guideline that apply to all articles. This section does not overrule that notion.

The basic tenet is:

In regards to the notability of people there is an additional criteria (WP:ATHLETE) that states that "people who have competed at the fully professional level of a sport" are "generally notable". However, failure to meet this additional criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included; conversely, meeting one or more does not guarantee that a subject should be included. Should a person fail to meet this additional criteria, they may still be notable under Notability.

Australian rules football quiz
Test your footy knowledge at the WikiProject Australian rules football/Quiz

VFL/AFL

 * All-time Player stats
 * All-time Player Lists
 * Football Record 1912–

WAFL

 * WAFL history
 * WAFL players list
 * WAFL Footy Facts

News archive
This section was formerly used for announcements related to WikiProject Australian rules football. The project talk page is now the usual place for these. For old news, see the news archive.

WikiProject Australian rules football style guide
WikiProject Australian rules football participants have agreed to the following standards of editorial style to maintain a consistent look and feel to Australian rules football and Australian Football League articles. The guidelines are in sympathy with the origins of the game and with encyclopaedic standards. Editors are encouraged to follow these guidelines wherever possible.

When editing, this guide can be cited in the edit summary as "per Australian rules football style guide".


 * 1) Article club names: club article names and subsequent links to those articles should use official club titles as in Collingwood Football Club.  Piped links can use Collingwood where applicable.  Avoid using Collingwood Magpies as an article title.
 * 2) Category club names: category names should similarly use official club titles as in Category:Collingwood Football Club coaches.
 * 3) Unlinked references within articles can either use official club names, shortnames or club nicknames (eg. Magpies) according to the editors preference.
 * 4) When referring to a player from an earlier era, the club name used should be the name applicable for that player at that time. For example Ted Whitten played for the Footscray Football Club (never the Western Bulldogs).  Use of redirects or piped links ( Footscray Football Club ) to the current club name is acceptable.
 * 5) The main article for the sport is Australian rules football. Articles should not use the capitalisation Australian Rules Football.
 * 6) In tables or ladders, use of shortnames or nicknames or combinations of both are acceptable as follows:

Infoboxes

 * Template:Infobox AFL biography is the current accepted version for use on all player and coach articles.
 * Template:Infobox australian football club is for use on club articles
 * Template:Infobox AFL season is for use on season articles (e.g. 2009 AFL season)