Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

Welcome to this WikiProject related to association football. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or write yourself up below. The significant milestones and achievements of the project can be found at the Milestones subpage.

Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organize standards for football related articles resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and possibly also in featured articles, and also making all articles related to football easy to find.

Goals
Write articles:


 * 1) on an overview of football in every country.
 * 2) on women's national teams in every country.
 * 3) on all notable football clubs in every country.
 * 4) on all notable football players in every country.
 * 5) on all notable football stadiums in every country.
 * 6) on all notable football competitions in every country.

Improve articles:


 * 1) to make them comply with standards set up here.
 * 2) to make them featured articles eventually.

Categorize articles:


 * 1) to make it easy to find what you want to find.

Obtain non-copyrighted images to improve the quality of our articles

Members
You can find a list of all Members here. Joining WikiProject Football is easy – just add your username to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.

Manual of style
Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles
Manual of style for a few common types of article:


 * Club manual of style
 * National team manual of style
 * National association manual of style
 * Competition manual of style
 * League season manual of style
 * Club season manual of style
 * Country season manual of style
 * Match manual of style
 * Player manual of style
 * Stadium manual of style

For player naming conventions and disambiguation, please see the association football section at Wikipedia:Naming conventions.

Categories
Info on in what category articles should be placed:


 * Category structure

Templates
Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:


 * Template list

Notability
How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:
 * WP:GNG Wikipedia's general notability guideline
 * Notability guideline for players sport-specific guideline
 * Leagues that are fully professional to confer player and coach notability
 * Notability guidelines for clubs (WikiProject guideline)
 * Notability guidelines for leagues (WikiProject guideline)

Assessment department
The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Association football related articles.

The proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner is:

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:



New articles
For a list of recently created football articles, see:
 * New articles

Requested articles

 * Follow this link to go to the specific section of Requested articles that lists the requested articles for football.

Articles currently under a review
This section lists those articles that are currently undergoing Peer review or are currently featured content candidates. Current good article candidates can be found on the good article nominations page under the Sports subheading.

Recognised content
Some of the articles supported by WikiProject Football have reached featured article or featured list status (FA and FL, respectively), meaning they are amongst the very best content in Wikipedia. They are listed below; a bold title indicates the article was "today's featured article" or "today's featured list" for the date listed. Also included here are articles that are featured article candidates (FAC) that failed, those that have undergone peer review (PR) as part of an effort to get them to FA status, and those that have achieved good article (GA) status, the next-highest level of quality.

Previously reviewed articles
This section lists articles that have gone through an external peer review. This includes articles that have been through a peer review, or a featured article or featured list nomination but were deemed to have failed to meet the criteria at the time. It also lists those articles were previously featured but subsequently de-listed due to a featured article review.

Vital articles
Some of the articles supported by WikiProject Football have been selected as Wikipedia's "vital articles". They are listed here.

Similar WikiProjects
For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see:
 * WikiProject Australian Football League (Australian rules football)
 * WikiProject American football (American football)
 * WikiProject College football (American college football)
 * WikiProject National Football League (gridiron football)
 * WikiProject Rugby (rugby football)
 * WikiProject Rugby league (rugby league)
 * WikiProject Rugby union (rugby union)