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Welcome to the American football WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving the coverage of topics related to American football on Wikipedia. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the members.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

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[edit] Project description

Goals

  • To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of American Football.
  • To improve Wikipedia's coverage of American Football by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
  • To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to American Football in Wikipedia.
  • Clean-up, merge, wikify, create images for, expand, merge and otherwise improve the individual articles dealing with the subjects above
  • Create and use good graphics for display within articles.
    • Acceptable images include originally drawn graphics and public-domain photos.

Side Goals

  • creating user boxes for project members
  • creating a stub template
  • getting more editors involved in the project
  • submitting project for review process

Focus points

  • plays
  • formations
  • schemes
  • philosophies
  • positions
  • other general strategy points

[edit] Scope

[edit] Guidelines

Guidelines for style, format and organization of the articles to be included in this project have yet to be decided. Please see the talk page to join the discussion on this. Once a general consensus is reached there, those guidelines should be moved here.

[edit] Open tasks

  • The primary task now is to decide the direction for this project, and establish a set of guidelines as to WHAT this project will work on and HOW we will format articles, categories, etc. This discussion is happening on the talk page. Once a consensus is reached there, a to-do list can be developed.
  • Diagrams (in .PNG format) are currently being uploaded for formations, plays, and positions. Check out: Formation (American football) for examples. Please make comments on the talk page.
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject American football: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Requests:
    • coach (American football) similar to coach (baseball) or coach (basketball)
    • Could someone please clarify the Onside kick section? It is very difficult to understand. How does an onside kick differ from a regular kick off? Why doesn't the receiving team simply decline to touch the ball and take possesion wherever the ball comes to rest?

[edit] Members

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 * ~~~

  • Jayron32 -- founded the project, will help where I can.
  • Cruisin' -- especially familiar w/ Steelers and Lions.
  • Jcam -- seeing the need for help on many "generic" American football articles(those which may be applicable to pro, college, high school and/or other levels of football, I gladly join this project.
  • IAMTHEEGGMAN -- Ill help
  • Blackwatch21 -- I love college and NFL football.
  • Giantsrule -- Hey, I can try to help, I am already making good stubs of all players in the league, I have started with the San Francisco 49ers
  • Daniel11 -- started the page on American football strategy a while ago, was hoping to see a project like this arrive.
  • Megamanic -- I'll do what I can, when I can
  • Teh tennisman--Why not; I know some about NFL.
  • BigDT -- more geared towards college, but I can help elsewhere
  • Emazwmenos 10:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  • JohnnyRush10 -- I can help out with a few college profiles and some NFL
  • Breno - Working on Australian gridiron coverage
  • Desert sapper -- I am already working on some college football projects, specifically OU Sooner stuff.
  • Wikizilla (Talk)signme!
  • Slysplace - had been slowly working on cleaning up the NFL Draft pages on and off line. I Believe this series is almost complete.
  • EscapingLife - Big NFL follower, try to update on NFL draft/clean pages
  • Life, Liberty, Property - Big fan of football in general.
  • Pupster21 12:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)-- All football.
  • Intrepidsfsu -- Working on western mid-major and small college schools, but would like to see strategy expanded
  • Wlmaltby3 (talk · contribs)
  • John 23:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Elkman8102 -- I have been working on pages for awhile and have extensive knowledge.
  • Jmfangio 07:30, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Lothar the Terrible -- Texas High School football, particularly small town (2A and 1A) and six man.
  • Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 03:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC) by the way, people keep in mind American Football has a bigger scope than National Football League
  • Ivey (talk)
  • Mickeyp2814 - I enjoy the history of the game and will make contributions in that area. I will also contribute to anything Texans. Looking forward to working with you all! --Mickeyp2814 (talk) 18:48, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Shootmaster 44 - I will contribute anything 49ers, as well as minor pro leagues like the AAFL, XFL and WLAF.
  • AMRDeuce (talk) - I contribute to all the AAFL articles.
  • B e t t i a ♦ t a k i l - currently working on BAFL related articles.
  • B.Wind (talk) - focusing on at least four American Football Leagues (pre-AAFC) and more significant pre-1946 leagues such as the Pacific Coast Professional Football League (and the 1944 AFL that competed with the PCPFL one year before merging with it), which was integrated before the AAFC.
  • JamesCollins (talk) 02:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC) - working on some BAFA articles and any general football articles I spot that I know something about.

[edit] Articles

A cursory glance at the American football category and subcategories reveals the following articles are probably within the scope of this project. Feel free to create, remove, move, merge, improve, or do anything else to these or any other articles you feel will fit the scope of the project. Please make any notes on the talk page of this project AND of the pages in question when dealing with these articles.

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new American football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment
  • Hampshire Thrashers - I've just given this page a total revamp and I'd appreciate a rating and some suggestions on any possible improvements. Ta very much. B e t t i a ♦ t a k i l 16:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Edinburgh Wolves - Would be apprecative of anything else anyone can think of to improve this. Working on getting more refs at the mo.

[edit] Templates

  • {{User WP American football}}: This is the Userbox Template for members of this project. Feel free to add it to your User Page.
  • {{WikiProject American football}}: This is the page template for articles that we are working on. Please add it to the TALK page of any article we are working on.

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[edit] Resources

[edit] Related projects

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports#American football for an up-to-date list
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