Wikipedia:WikiProject American football

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.

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 · Updated 2023-05-26 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Citing sources : Find American football articles that need citations Collaborate : We need to collaborate to these things to make them better: Find potential Featured articles. Our goal is to get to 10 Featured articles. Help make unassessed assessed for both class and importance. Let's fix up this article, which is about the list of former NFL stadiums! Stubs : Destub the stubbed articles. Our goal is to make the stub-class articles down to only 500 stubbed articles! Other : Upload pictures for Category:Wikipedia requested images of American football Go to our talk page and talk about a possible new category. Bring people that are interested in American Football here. Visit other WikiProjects, we are not the only ones!

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

Article alerts

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 16 Mar 2026 – Lyle Hare Stadium (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by FantasticWikiUser (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 15 Mar 2026 – 2026 North Dakota State Bison football team (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 14 Mar 2026 – James Harris (defensive end) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 24 Feb 2026 – Joe Santone (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Let'srun (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 04 Mar 2026 – North Texas Knockouts (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Hog Farm (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 11 Mar 2026; see discussion (4 participants)
• 17 Feb 2026 – Realignment (sports) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c) was closed as keep by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 12 Mar 2026; see discussion (16 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 13 Mar 2026 – 2026 North Dakota State Bison football team (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c) was deproded by ~2026-60875 (t · c) on 15 Mar 2026

Categories for discussion

• 06 Mar 2026 – Category:Pacific Islander American players of American football (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 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

Articles to be merged

• 12 Jan 2026 – WVSSAC Super Six Football Championships (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to West Virginia High School Football State Championships and playoff history by Waxdingo (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 16 Nov 2023 – High school football (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by The ed17 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 Virginia Tech Hokies football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 Pittsburgh Panthers football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 North Carolina Tar Heels football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 NC State Wolfpack football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 Boston College Eagles football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 17 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 Syracuse Orange football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 16 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 West Virginia Mountaineers football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 16 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 UCF Knights football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (t · c)
• 16 Mar 2026 – Draft:2026 TCU Horned Frogs football team (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Weatherman4064 (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