Wikipedia:WikiProject American football

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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).

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

Scope

• This project should deal primarily with strategic aspects of football; articles on specific leagues, players, teams, and games should be in the scope of other projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League and Wikipedia:WikiProject College football

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.

Disambiguation

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#Gridiron football

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.

Members

If you want to get involved in this project, please add your name to the list of members. There is a userbox available for members of this project. Please feel free to put this on your userpage by adding {{User WikiProject American football}}. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add [[Category:WikiProject American football members|{{PAGENAME}}]] to the end of your user page.

Articles

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject American football/Articles

Article alerts

Article alerts

Did you know

• 14 Jul 2026 – Jerry Kobasa (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 16 Jul 2026 – League Field (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Stormsnsnow (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)

Redirects for discussion

• 18 Jul 2026 – American football/to do (talk · edit · hist) →American football was RfDed by A1Cafel (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 09 May 2026 – Bob Barrabee (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JTtheOG (t · c); start discussion
• 25 Oct 2025 – Sneeze Achiu (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ThaesOfereode (t · c); start discussion
• 09 Sep 2025 – Melissa Gallegos (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JTtheOG (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 15 Jul 2026 – Adelaide Eagles (talk · edit · hist) move request to Adelaide University Eagles American Football Club by Rfwikip (t · c) was moved to Adelaide University Eagles American Football Club (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 24 Jul 2026; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 13 Jun 2026 – List of sports figures considered the greatest (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Zsteve21 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Nov 2023 – High school football (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by The ed17 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 22 Jul 2026 – Draft:Brent Lesniak (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
• 15 Jul 2026 – Draft:Ted Leland (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dougmcilhagga (t · c)
• 06 Jul 2026 – Draft:Kirkcaldy Bulls American Football Club (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Neilly87 (t · c)
• 06 Jul 2026 – Draft:Nebraska Siege (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AlexHammeke (t · c)
• 14 Jun 2026 – Draft:Turbo Richard (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jkitch503 (t · c)
• 29 May 2026 – Draft:Mason Parker (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CihiTrialshow (t · c)
• 28 May 2026 – Draft:Andru Pulu (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Smileyfaceman (t · c)
• 28 May 2026 – Draft:Jeremiah Bishop (wrestler) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
• 15 Apr 2026 – Draft:International Arena League (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TexasOutlawsSoccerFan (t · c)

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Templates

• {{User WikiProject 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.
• {{Americanfootball-stub}}: Stub

Categories

• Category:American football strategy

Resources

Related projects

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject American football/Projects and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports § American football

• Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League
• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gridiron in Australia (defunct)