Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/English non-league task force



The primary goal of this project to improve the quality of articles related to English non-league football. This page and its sub-pages describe the goals and scope of the task force; list the members of the task force; collate the task force's assessment data; organise mini projects and to-do lists; and keep track of various useful online sources. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians interested in English non-league football. If you would like to help, have a look at the projects and tasks lower down the page, or inquire on the talk page.

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Soccer ball.svg Main goals

 * 1) To increase the standard of Wikipedia's coverage of non-league football
 * 2) To provide basic information on notable non-league clubs and competitions
 * 3) To provide an area where contributors interested in non-league football can identify each other and discuss any issues
 * 4) To organise a collaboration on non-league football, with a view to writing featured articles on the subject

Scope
This Task Force aims to improve all articles related to English non-league football. This includes the following:

[[Image:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|20px]] Participants
This is a list of active members. Members who have not edited non-league articles in over six months are considered dormant. Members will be removed if they have not edited non-league articles in over a year.

Members who have not been active on non-league football pages for over six months, but have edited them in the last year.

Featured Article Star.svg Showcase
Some of the articles supported by the English non-league task force 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.

Recent achievements
Successful FACs, FARs, GANs, GARs, or milestones in the last year:
 * List of F.C. United of Manchester seasons became a featured list on 20 April 2016
 * History of York City F.C. (1980–present) became a featured article on 11 March 2016
 * Adam Stansfield became a good article on 13 February 2016
 * Broadhurst Park became a good article on 2 January 2016
 * Bootham Crescent became a featured article on 7 October 2015
 * James Crumley (footballer) became a good article on 2 September 2015

For past achievements please see the archive.

Club articles
Improve your favourite club's article, and put them on the map! There are only eight current and former non-league clubs with Featured Articles, and ten current and former non-league clubs with Good Articles.

Nuvola apps korganizer.svg Projects
Please feel free to add any new projects you think the taskforce should focus on.
 * 1) Reduce number of clubs stubs: (see Category:English football club stubs) As of 14 May 2015 there are around 284 ( 414, 352 , 327 , 318 , 286 , 276 , 247 , 215 , 174 , 157 , 137 , 123 ) English non-league football club stubs (26 extant clubs). If all participants aimed to make one club article per day non-stub, then it would not take long (5 days to be precise!). Things a club page should have to be made non-stub:
 * 2) * Details of league played in, and rough geographic location (county/borough).
 * 3) * Completed infobox
 * 4) * Brief history, honours list and club records (Football Club History Database is useful here, but always cite your sources)
 * 5) * Link to club website
 * 6) * League template (where there is one – see here for current list)
 * See Lutterworth Athletic F.C. for an example of an article with the minimum for non-stub status.
 * Letter of month: B There are just two extant non-league club stubs starting with the letter B: Belper United F.C., Broadfields United F.C.
 * In the past the project has de-stubbed all of the extant clubs starting with E, J and R!
 * 1) * See Club stubs by league for a list of clubs by league.
 * 2) Expand league articles: Any league article should include:
 * 3) * Infobox football league
 * 4) * Geographic area covered
 * 5) * Current number of divisions / teams.
 * 6) * Recent champions, if not all.
 * 7) * League template (for all divisions), plus promotion/relegation info
 * 8) * External link
 * 9) * A list of stub league articles can be found at Category:English football competition stubs (as of 14 May 2015 there are 98)
 * 10) * Most of the articles for leagues at level 10 or below are so far only start class. Midland Football Alliance is an example of what to eventually aim for.
 * 11) Create all season articles for Step 3–4 (levels 7–8): 225/253 (89%)''' – as of 23 December 2013
 * 12) *Northern Premier League – 48/48 (100%) ✅
 * 13) *Southern Football League – 113/113 (100%) ✅
 * 14) *Isthmian League – 101/101 (100%) ✅
 * 15)  Add club badges for every team down to level 10: 611/611 (100%)''' – as of 2 December 2012
 * 16) *All step 9–10 leagues ✅
 * 17) *See the list of club articles needing badges for which articles need attention

Stub manutenzione.png Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Nuvola apps display.png Online resources
The following table shows useful, reliable sources that have been shared by our members to mutually improve the coverage of Non-League football. Websites listed here include primary, secondary and tertiary source material on football team statistics, attendances, kits and ground. Members may wish to refer to this section to gather material for developing pages. please feel free to add any new sources which you have found helpful.

Categories
Category:Football in England
 * Category:Football competitions in England
 * Levels 5–6
 * National League (English football)
 * Levels 7–8
 * Category:Isthmian League
 * Category:Northern Premier League
 * Category:Southern Football League
 * Levels 9–10
 * Category:Eastern Counties Football League
 * Category:Hellenic Football League
 * Category:Midland Football Alliance
 * Category:Northern Counties East Football League
 * Category:Northern Football League
 * Category:North West Counties Football League
 * Category:Southern Counties East Football League
 * Category:Spartan South Midlands Football League
 * Category:Sussex County Football League
 * Category:United Counties League
 * Category:Wessex Football League
 * Category:Western Football League
 * Category:West Midlands (Regional) League
 * Levels <10
 * See list at Category:Football leagues in England
 * Cup competitions
 * Category:County Cup competitions
 * Category:FA Cup
 * Category:FA Trophy
 * Category:FA Vase

Major articles on non-League football

 * Main Article
 * Non-League football
 * '''League System
 * English football league system
 * History of the English football league system
 * National League System
 * Level 5
 * Conference National
 * Level 6
 * Conference North
 * Conference South
 * '''Levels 7–8
 * Isthmian League
 * Northern Premier League
 * Southern League
 * Non-league Cup Competitions
 * FA Trophy
 * FA Vase
 * FA Inter-League Cup

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The parent project of this Task Force is WikiProject Football. It is also a descendant of the English football taskforce. No descendant Task Forces have been defined.

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