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Welcome to this WikiProject related to Football (soccer). 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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] News

News archive:

  • News archive

[edit] Participants

You can find a list of participants 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.

[edit] Article improvement drive

A weekly collaboration to improve a football-related article to featured article standard:

This week's football improvement drive article is Wembley Stadium

[edit] Assessment department

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

[edit] New articles

For a list of recently created football articles, see:

[edit] Featured and good articles

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" 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.

Article Status Peer Review FAC/FLC
Arsenal F.C. (November 7, 2005) Featured Article PR FAC
Chelsea F.C. Featured Article PR FAC
City of Manchester Stadium Featured Article PR FAC
Everton F.C. Featured Article PR FAC
FIFA World Cup (June 8, 2006) Featured Article PR FAC 1st, 2nd
Football (soccer) (November 20, 2006) Featured Article FAC
IFK Göteborg (September 20, 2005) Featured Article PR FAC
Denis Law Featured Article PR FAC 1st, 2nd
Manchester City F.C. (August 11, 2006) Featured Article PR FAC
Premier League (October 12, 2006) Featured Article FAC 1st, 2nd
Roy of the Rovers Featured Article PR FAC
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. (January 17, 2007) Featured Article PR FAC
Gilberto Silva Featured Article PR FAC
Ipswich Town F.C. Featured Article PR FAC
List of Arsenal F.C. players Featured List FLC
Danish football champions Featured List FLC
English football champions Featured List FLC
List of English Football League managers by date of appointment Featured List PR FLC
FIFA World Cup hat-tricks Featured List FLC
List of Liverpool F.C. players Featured List FLC
List of Manchester United F.C. players Featured List FLC
List of Sweden international footballers Featured List FLC
Swedish football champions Featured List FLC
List of top-division football clubs in CONMEBOL countries Featured List FLC
List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries Featured List FLC
2006 FIFA World Cup Failed FAC FAC
A.C. Milan Failed FAC FAC
FIFA World Rankings Failed FAC PR FAC
Thierry Henry Failed FAC FAC
Leicester City F.C. Failed FAC PR 1st, 2nd FAC
Linfield F.C. Failed FAC FAC
Liverpool F.C. Failed FAC PR FAC
Manchester United F.C. Failed FAC FAC 1st, 2nd
Preston North End F.C. Failed FAC FAC
UEFA Cup Failed FAC FAC
Arsenal Stadium Failed FAC, Good Article FAC
David Beckham Failed FAC, Good Article PR FAC
Dundee United F.C. Failed FAC, Good Article PR FAC
List of AS Roma players Failed FLC FLC
Liverpool F.C. seasons Failed FLC FLC
Central Coast Mariners FC Current FAC, Good Article PR FAC
Celtic F.C. Peer reviewed PR
U.S. Città di Palermo Peer reviewed PR
Feyenoord Rotterdam Peer reviewed PR
Garrincha Peer reviewed PR
Heysel Stadium disaster Peer reviewed PR
Leeds United A.F.C. Peer reviewed PR
Leigh Richmond Roose Peer reviewed PR
Lily Parr Current PR PR
Rangers F.C. Peer reviewed PR
F.C. United of Manchester Peer reviewed PR
West Bromwich Albion F.C. Peer reviewed PR
West Ham United F.C. Peer reviewed PR
FC Zwolle Peer reviewed PR
Hereford United F.C. Current PR PR
Persepolis FC Current PR PR
Norwich City F.C. Current PR PR
2006 FIFA World Cup controversies Good Article
David Beharall Good Article
Adam Boyd Good Article
Brøndby IF Good Article
Clayton Donaldson Good Article
FIFA World Cup Trophy Good Article
Shaun Goater Good Article
Pelé Good Article PR
Marc Pugh Good Article
Teamgeist Good Article
United Kingdom national football team Good Article

[edit] Nominations for deletion and page moves

Note: If you're thinking about nominating an article for deletion (only articles, not templates or categories), please consider the following two alternative options:

  • Does the article meet the criteria for speedy deletion? If so, just tag it with one of the speedy deletion tags and an administrator will delete it (as long as they agree).
  • Is the deletion likely to be uncontested? If so then add a proposed deletion tag to it instead; if uncontested after five days, the article will be automatically deleted.

Only if you think the deletion will be contested and debated is it necessary to go through AfD.

When listing a deletion or page move nomination here, please copy-paste the relevant notice to the deletion discussion:

  • *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football|WikiProject Football]]'s list of football (soccer) related deletions. ~~~~</small>
  • *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football|WikiProject Football]]'s list of football (soccer) related page moves. ~~~~</small>
Article/Category/Template Nomination Date
DPR K-League 2 AfD 2007-03-27
Yellow Subs AfD 2007-03-28
Flinders soccer club AfD 2007-03-28
Mohammad Simmons AfD 2007-03-29
Stuart Wall AfD 2007-03-29
Joel Allwright AfD 2007-03-29
Locomotiv FC AfD 2007-03-30
Template:PDL team TFD 2007-03-21
Category:Current Serie A players CfD 2007-03-27
MetroStars -> New York Red Bull#History Merge 2007-03-15
Yugoslav League Championship -> Yugoslav First League Merge 2007-03-25
Oxford University Association Football Club -> Oxford University A.F.C. Requested move 2007-03-28
Anthony Vassallo Deletion review 2007-03-30

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archive:

[edit] Requested articles

[edit] Articles that need watching

If you notice an article that regularly needs attention (eg it regularly gets vandalised, attracts a lot of attention from new users, has ongoing edit wars etc.), list it here. If you have time, please add these articles to your watchlist and help out when you notice vandalism/crappy edits etc.

Article Date added Reason
1966 FIFA World Cup Final 2006-11-26 Disagreement over the inclusion of controversy of the fourth England goal
Manchester United F.C. ? ?
Alex Ferguson ? ?
David Beckham ? ?
Liverpool F.C. ? ?
Chelsea F.C. ? ?
Hooligan firm ? ?
Steven Gerrard 11/12/06 Page is regularly vandalised
Juventus F.C. ? ?
Football (soccer) ? ?
FIFA World Rankings ? List of current rankings frequently vandalised
FC Barcelona ? ?
Real Madrid ? ?
Everton F.C. ? ?
Frank Lampard ? ?
Wayne Rooney ? See Cristiano Ronaldo (below)
Cristiano Ronaldo ? Slight vandalism; disagreement over the World Cup 06 Red Card Incident
Rangers F.C. ? Regular vandalism/bad edits from IP editors especially
A.F.C. Wimbledon 2006-11-14 Regular vandalism/bad edits from IP editors especially
Football hooliganism 2006-10-13 Edit wars/a lot of attention from new users/vandalism
Leeds United A.F.C. 2006-11-29 Vandalism from mainly IP editors, but also registered users who vandalise after requests not to.
Aston Villa 2006-12-13 The past few days have seen IP users removing whole swathes of text - including Greatest Players and History
Sunderland A.F.C. 2007-01-21 Vandalism - recently unprotected and has been targeted twice since
West Ham United F.C. 2007-03-14 Under attack by vandalism around 4-5 times a day.
Mia Hamm 2007-03-27 Very high amount of vandal / nonsense / test edits mostly by unregistered users. Could also do with being locked against such edits.


[edit] Watchlist

For participants to be able to follow changes to pages and sub-pages of the project, please add Category:WikiProject Football to any page of the project you create. To follow all changes to the pages, see the related changes of the above mentioned category. This will work as a sort of watchlist for pages related to the project.

[edit] Manual of style

Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

[edit] Articles

Manual of style for a few common types of article:

[edit] Categories

Info on in what category articles should be placed:

[edit] Templates

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

[edit] Notability

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

[edit] Useful links

A collection of useful external links:

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see:

[edit] Descendent WikiProjects