Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the National Football League. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject on the National Football League (NFL).

[edit] To Do List

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League: edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
  • Major cleanup of all team articles:
    • Split long history sections into separate articles.

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Featured articles

The following NFL-related articles are Featured articles; the ones in bold have appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on the date given alongside.

[edit] Featured lists

The following NFL-related lists are Featured lists:

[edit] Featured Article Candidates

None

[edit] Good Articles

The following NFL-related articles are Good articles; with some additional work they can be improved to Featured Article status.

[edit] DYK?

The following articles were featured as part of Wikipedia's Did you know? program.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to organize and standardize the efforts of those working on NFL related articles.

[edit] Parentage

[edit] Individual team projects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with an asterisk and three tildes (~~~).

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[edit] Naming conventions

  • For dates pertaining to the regular season and playoffs held prior to the AFL-NFL Merger, the year should be in which the majority of the season was held.
  • For playoffs after the AFL-NFL Merger, the year should be in the form 20xx-yy. This is a compromise between die hard and casual fans. Prior to the 1980s, most of the playoff games were in December. Currently, they are all in January and sometimes February. As a result, many die hard fans still consider the playoffs leading to Super Bowl XXXIX as the 2004 playoffs while many casual fans call it the 2005 playoffs.
  • For dates referring to Pro Bowl games, the year should be in which the game was held, not the year of the previous regular season.
  • For articles pertaining to specific events or games, whenever a team name is used, it should be the team name at the time of the event, but link to the current team page (unless there are pages for the team in earlier forms).
  • Following the NFL's naming conventions and official record book, the Baltimore Ravens are considered a 1996 expansion team while the Cleveland Browns are considered to have suspended operations from 1996-1998.

[edit] Structure

See the following sub pages for information on article structures. If you would like to comment on the recommended format for an article type, please do so on the talk page for that article type's subpage.

[edit] Article Formats

[edit] Categories

Related Categories:

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Goals

  1. Standardization and improvement of articles relating to the NFL.
  2. A complete history of the NFL.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

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[edit] Assessment

Article assessment functionality was added on 2007-03-23. Please tag and NFL related article with the project banner and assess the article. Check out the assessment script to help speed up the process.

National Football League
articles
Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 10 10
A
Good article GA 15 15
B 12 12
Start 16 16
Stub 114 114
Assessed 167 167
Unassessed 4650 4650
Total 4817 4817