Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force/Archives/2017/October

Request for comment: WP:NFOOTY guideline
A request for comment is open regarding a proposed change to the WP:NFOOTY guideline here: RfC: Proposal for WP:NFOOTY guideline. Input is welcome. Hmlarson (talk) 22:40, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

college team articles
I had some questions about categories and such with NCAA articles. There is a Category:College women's soccer teams in the United States, which lists some information about what things to put where, but I was still a bit confused. For example, Category:NCAA Division II women's soccer teams exists as a subcategory of this, but there wasn't a DI or DIII equivalent. I just made those categories now, but wanted to let someone know in case this was wrong so it could get reverted/handled. I only put pages in the division categories which were already directly in the big category.
 * This big category has many subcategories like Category:North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer. If classifying programs by division is appropriate, should those team-specific subcategories also go into division categories?

I also did some adding to the list at the NCAA Initiative page, making a category for pages which exist but need work (some decent ones that are 2+ seasons out of date, and some which would need a lot of work). Cleancutkid (talk) 21:46, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * If you find missing categories, it is not uncommon + good to create when able. Don't worry about being reverted. If any edit you make is reverted, you can engage in a discussion on the category talk page or bring it up here or any other relevant talk page for additional editors' input. See also: Be Bold and WP:EDITWAR guidelines that the editing community is expected to follow.
 * I typically check the men's equivalent category structure (if it exists) and traverse up the category tree to get a big picture understanding, then create the new category/ies by mirroring an existing structure. It looks like the parent category Category: NCAA Division I soccer is a good place to figure out how it's currently structured. I added the Category:NCAA Division I soccer to the new Category:NCAA Division I women's soccer teams category so this new category is included in the existing NCAA structure.


 * Keep in mind existing categorization structure isn't always perfect and sometimes needs tweaking. WP:CATEGORY has some additional information and editors active there might be able to provide additional insight. You could also look at how other NCAA sport category trees are structured if something doesn't make sense in the existing structure. Thanks for the good work you are doing, . Hmlarson (talk) 00:06, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I just spotted Category:NCAA Division I soccer by conference subcategories can also be incorporated. Hmlarson (talk) 00:11, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * - have you been working on this also? Any thoughts? Hmlarson (talk) 00:37, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, college women's soccer in the United States is probably what I most focus on in terms of Wikipedia editing. I just re-organized the NCAA Initiative page to try and emphasize creating team articles for programs more likely to have significant coverage (i.e. past major successes (College Cup) or recent minor successes (ranked in the top 25)). In terms of categorizing team articles I would agree with the suggestion to just look at the category structures for other American college sports and create the equivalent women's soccer categories that don't exist. Joeykai (talk) 00:51, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

September 2017 at Women in Red
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