Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American Football League

Trade deadline
I've converted Trade deadline from a redirect page to an article stub. I was really, really surprised that there was no article about this significant sports terminology. (The term had redirected to a disambiguation page concerning its purely commercial/financial sense.) However, knowing next to nothing about AFL I'm hoping others can help in expanding the article as regards trade deadlines in AFL, and also correct any errors I may have made in the term's definition etc.. Cheers, A bit iffy 15:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

AFL Project
I would be glad to help in any way possible in this project. I have original clippings, photos, etc. of American Football League games. I have a private website at http://www.remembertheafl.com/AFL.htm which contains or links to biographies and photos of hundreds of American Football League players. I have a database of American football League players showing every man who played in the American Football League. I created and am continually addng names to List of American Football League players, and creating or updating pages for those players. I am in e-mail contact with over 300 former American Football League players, as well as with several authors of books about the American Football League, and can ask them for clarification or confirmation of their own or teammates' and opponents' performances.

Suggestions

 * Wikipedia templates like "NFL player", "NFL player retired" and "NFL PlayerCoach" are generally incorrect when the player served in a league other than the NFL. Many American Football League players never played in the NFL: many NFL players also played in other leagues, including the American Football League. I created templates "Infobox Pro Football player" and "Infobox Pro Football player retired", which permit correct display of a player's American Football League draft information, and his American Football League All-Star Game appearances, which were NOT "pro bowl" appearances.  That appellation is a convenience by the NFL and writers/webmasters not wanting to take the trouble to identify the American Football League's All-Star games.  "Infobox Pro Football player" and "Infobox Pro Football player retired" also differentiate between the player's service for American Football League teams and NFL teams. Joe Namath, for example, played for the American Football League Jets from 1965 through 1969, and the NFL Jets from 1970 through 1976.  The template "NFL PlayerCoach" is an incorrect reference, for example, for Tom Flores and Art Shell, and should be changed to "Pro Football PlayerCoach".  Wikipedia's "NFL Player" and other "NFL Project" templates also incorrectly show draft information: they show only NFL draft data, and they cite the non-existent 1967, 1968, and 1969 "NFL drafts".  The draft in those years was a Common Draft held by the American Football League and the NFL after the NFL agreed, after the 1966 season, to merge with the American Football League.  The actual merger took place in 1970, but the Common Draft began in 1967, and was not called the "NFL draft".
 * I would be glad to discuss this with you through e-mail. My address is RemembertheAFL@aol.com.   Read my bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Felice_Coniglio SugnuSicilianu 16:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Does the project cover one AFL, 3 of them... or 4?
Is this project limited to the AFL that existed between 1960 and 1969, or will it expand to cover the 1926, 1936, and 1940 editions that had some claim to major league status? Should it also include the 1938 version that made no such claim (or the American Professional Football Association of that same time period)? Of course, there could be a Wikiproject covering all the defunct professional leagues... but then it would include the fourth (fifth?) AFL which is the focus of this Wikiproject. 147.70.242.40 (talk) 19:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Players Height & Weight
Can I ask why there are no player's heights and weight on individual players? Its a surprising ommission given these stats are so often quoted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yozick72 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Oakland Raiders GAR warning
Oakland Raiders has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreation
As you may know, we currently have 400 good article nominations, with a large number of them being in the sports and recreation section. As such, the waiting time for this is especially long, much longer than it should be. As a result of this, I am asking each sports-related WikiProject to review two or three of these nominations. If this is abided by, then the backlog should be cleared quite quickly. Some projects nominate a lot but don't review, or vice-versa, and following this should help to provide a balance and make the waiting time much smaller so that our articles can actually get reviewed! Wizardman 23:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Sports Notability
There is discussion ongoing at Wikipedia_talk:BIO debating possible changes to the WP:ATHLETE notability guideline. As a result, some have suggested using WP:NSPORT as an eventual replacement for WP:ATHLETE. Editing has begun at WP:NSPORT, please participate to help refine the notability guideline for the sports covered by this wikiproject. —Joshua Scott (LiberalFascist) 03:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Created separate assessment categories for this project
For whatever reason this project's project banner was tagging its articles with"National Football League" assessment categories, rather than "American Football League" categories. This was causing confusion when articles were tagged with different assessments for the two projects; when this occurred, the article was appearing in two different NFL assessment categories. I've corrected this and created a new set of assessment categories specifically for this project. &mdash; DeeJayK (talk) 18:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Aaron_Rodgers/GA2
Hi fellows! A user became in active and then this was started. This page was nominated by them and there is no one to fix the issues. I tried but I know nothing about the game and I m having trouble in dealing with it. I will not be able to do any more to it so can anyone from you please try to fix the problems. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!  →TSU tp* 14:29, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople
An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:44, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

File:AFL Football.png is missing evidence of permission
File:AFL Football.png, which is used in Template:User WikiProject American Football League, is missing evidence of permission, and may be deleted after 1 March 2013, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion, unless evidence can be provided that the creator of the image has agreed to release the image under the GFDL or another free license. —Bkell (talk) 03:36, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration
This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  18:40, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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AfD: 1967 American Football League draft
I've nominated the 1967 American Football League draft article for deletion. This and the subsequent two years the NFL and AFL participated in a Common draft. As such, this topic is covered in more detail in the 1967 NFL draft article. If you'd like to share your opinion on the topic, please do so on the AfD discussion page or on the article talk page. &mdash; DeeJayK (talk) 16:53, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The discussion on this topic has expanded to how to deal with the entire series of articles that cover the NFL/AFL common draft era. We'd love to get more input from NFL and football editors at the AfD discussion page. &mdash; DeeJayK (talk) 15:21, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

RFC on sports notability
An RFC has recently been started regarding a potential change to the notability guidelines for sportspeople. Please join in the conversation. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 23:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Cannabis and sports
New stub: Cannabis and sports. Any project members care to help expand the American football section? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:55, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

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Requested move at Talk:National Football League
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:National Football League that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 18:47, 29 March 2024 (UTC)