Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Ireland task force

Welcome to the WikiProject on Irish association football (including football in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). This page contains suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or include yourself as a participant below.

This descendant project's parent-project is the WikiProject Football.

Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organise standards for Irish football-related articles, resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and also making all articles related to Irish football easy to find. Also, the project plans improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish football, to form a co-operative effort of contributions amongst Irish football editors and aid the collaboration of editors with an interest in Irish football, as well as to provide an area where contributors interested in Irish football can identify each other and discuss any issues relevant to their area of interest or where they want to direct their activities.

Goals
Write and maintain articles:


 * 1) on an overview of football in Ireland, including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
 * 2) on youth national teams in both countries.
 * 3) on women's national teams in both countries.
 * 4) on all notable football clubs in Ireland.
 * 5) on all notable football players in Ireland.
 * 6) on all notable football stadiums in Ireland.
 * 7) on all notable football competitions in Ireland.
 * 8) on all past seasons in the League of Ireland and the Irish League.
 * 9) on all notable matches and derbies in Irish football.

Improve articles:


 * 1) to make them comply with standards set up here and on the parent-project.
 * 2) to develop them into featured articles eventually.

Categorise articles:


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

Participants
This is a list of Irish football task force participants. New participants can join by editing this page and adding their details 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.

Featured articles
One of the articles supported by the Irish football task force has reached featured article status (FA), meaning it is amongst the very best content in Wikipedia.

Article improvement drive
A fortnightly collaboration to improve an Irish football-related article to featured article standard.

Immediate tasks

 * 1) Ensure that the 2013 League of Ireland article is kept up to date.
 * 2) Ensure that the Setanta Sports Cup 2012–13 article is kept up to date.
 * 3) Create an article on every League of Ireland player.
 * 4) Ensure that League of Ireland club articles are kept up to date.

New articles
Add newly-created articles relating to Irish football below:


 * Tom Coughlan (football): (created November 3, 2009)
 * League of Ireland Premier Division Manager of the Year: (created November 3, 2009)
 * Goal of the Season (Ireland): (created November 3, 2009)
 * League of Ireland Premier Division Player of the Month: (created November 3, 2009)
 * Bohemians vs Shamrock Rovers: (created November 4, 2009)
 * League of Ireland Premier Division Manager of the Month: (created November 4, 2009)
 * Derbies in the League of Ireland: (created November 4, 2008)
 * Republic of Ireland football league system: (created November 4, 2009)
 * Template:FAI Cup Final venues: (created November 7, 2009)
 * All-Ireland Football League: (created November 14, 2009)
 * 2009 FAI Cup Final: (created November 22, 2009)
 * Fingal Sports Complex: (created November 28, 2009)
 * Eircom Park: (created February 15, 2010)

Requested articles
Add articles that you would like to create or see created in the future below:
 * Fan culture in Irish football
 * Irish clubs in Europe
 * League of Ireland Premier Division records
 * Goal of the Month (Ireland)
 * List of football players with a League of Ireland winner's medal (see Premier League)
 * Article on all past seasons of the League of Ireland (see Template:League of Ireland seasons)
 * Articles on all past FAI Cup, and League Cup Finals.

Articles in need of improvement
Add articles you feel are in need of serious and immediate improvement below:


 * Ulster Senior League
 * Leinster Senior League
 * Munster Senior League
 * Cork AUL
 * Galway & District League
 * Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team
 * Women's Football Association of Ireland
 * Westport United
 * All–Ireland League
 * Tom Coughlan (football)

Categories
Add important categories relating to the project below:
 * Category:Irish football songs
 * Category:League of Ireland
 * Category:League of Ireland seasons
 * Category:Football League of Ireland players
 * Category:Football League of Ireland managers
 * Category:Football venues in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Football venues in the Republic of Ireland
 * Category:Northern Irish football clubs
 * Category:Northern Ireland national football team
 * Category:Republic of Ireland football clubs
 * Category:Republic of Ireland national football team
 * Category:Republic of Ireland national football team results

Important articles on Irish football
General:
 * Football in Northern Ireland
 * Football in the Republic of Ireland
 * List of football clubs in Ireland

Associations:
 * Football Association of Ireland
 * Irish Football Association

National teams:
 * Ireland national football team (IFA)
 * Northern Ireland national football team
 * Republic of Ireland national football team

Competitions:
 * League of Ireland
 * League of Ireland Premier Division
 * League of Ireland First Division


 * FAI Cup
 * League of Ireland Cup
 * IFA Premiership
 * IFA Championship
 * Irish Cup
 * Irish League Cup
 * Setanta Sports Cup

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
 * Match manual of style
 * Player manual of style
 * Stadium manual of style

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

The following templates shall be used specifically for this project:

Notability
How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:


 * Notability criteria

Useful links
A collection of useful external links:


 * Link collection

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