WikiProject on Football
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Welcome to this WikiProject related to Association football. 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. The significant milestones and achievements of the project can be found at the Milestones subpage.

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.

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.

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.

Manual of style

Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles

Manual of style for a few common types of article:

• Club manual of style
• National team manual of style
• National association manual of style
• Competition manual of style
• Match manual of style
• Player manual of style
• Stadium manual of style

Categories

Info on in what category articles should be placed:

• Category structure

Templates

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

• Template list

Notability

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

• Notability criteria
• Leagues that are fully professional to confer player notability

Sources

Members of the project have collected a list of sources and links that could be of help to editors wishing to expand articles. The links collection lists all the websites of governing bodies such as FIFA and UEFA. It also contains player databases for all levels of competition, from National level to club level. The booklist lists some of the books that project members own. These members can be contacted for help in sourcing if information from these books is needed.

• Link collection
• Booklist

Assessment department

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

Open tasks

New articles

For a list of recently created football articles, see:

• New articles

Requested articles

• Follow this link to go to the specific section of Wikipedia:Requested articles that lists the requested articles for football.

Articles currently under a review

This section lists those articles that are currently undergoing Peer review or are currently featured content candidates. Current good article candidates can be found on the good article candidates page under the Sports subheading.

Nominations for deletion and page moves

Important: 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#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football related deletions. ~~~~</small>
• *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football related page moves. ~~~~</small>

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See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football where deletion nominations are sometimes listed.

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

• This year's archive
• 2007
• 2006

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.

The table below lists articles that regularly need attention. This is usually because of higher rates of vandalism than other pages, it attracts a lot of attention from new users or if it is currently in the middle of an edit war. If you have time, please add these articles to your watchlist and help out when you notice vandalism/crappy edits etc.

There is currently a rough set of criteria for inclusion in this list. These are:

• three instances of vandalism/reverts in a week.
• Or, if the article is currently under some form of page protection, this can be extended to two weeks.

Longterm

Short term

Showcase

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.

Featured content

Featured articles
Article	Status	Peer Review	FAC
1923 FA Cup Final	Featured Article	PR	FAC
1956 FA Cup Final (November 26, 2008)	Featured Article	PR	FAC
2007 UEFA Champions League Final (January 13, 2008)	Featured Article	PR	FAC, FAR
Arsenal F.C. (November 7, 2005)	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Association football (November 20, 2006)	Featured Article		FAC, FAR ,
Aston Villa F.C.	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Steve Bruce	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Central Coast Mariners FC	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Chelsea F.C.	Featured Article	PR	FAC, FAR
City of Manchester Stadium (April 21, 2007)	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Derry City F.C.	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Dover Athletic F.C.	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Duncan Edwards	Featured Article	PR	FAC
England national football team managers	Featured Article	PR 1st, 2nd	FAC
Everton F.C.	Featured Article	PR	FAC, FAR
FIFA World Cup (June 8, 2006)	Featured Article	PR	FAC 1st, 2nd, FAR
German women's national football team	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Gillingham F.C.	Featured Article	PR	FAC
IFK Göteborg (September 20, 2005)	Featured Article	PR	FAC
Thierry Henry (April 23, 2008)	Featured Article	PR	FAC
History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966)	Featured Article	PR	FAC
History of Aston Villa F.C. (1961–present)	Featured Article		FAC: