Wikipedia:WikiProject American football

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WP:AMFWP:AMF

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.

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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

Article alerts

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

27 May 2026 – Sid Edwards (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aneirinn (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
01 Jun 2026 – Quincy Skinner Jr. (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Porterjoh (t · c) was closed as delete by 78.26 (t · c) on 08 Jun 2026; see discussion (4 participants)
30 May 2026 – James Powell Calvin (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Chiserc (t · c) was closed as delete by ComplexRational (t · c) on 06 Jun 2026; see discussion (7 participants)

Templates for discussion

28 May 2026 – Template:NFL strength and conditioning coaches (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Dissident93 (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

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

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)
15 Apr 2026 – Draft:International Arena League (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TexasOutlawsSoccerFan (t · c)
07 Apr 2026 – Draft:Educational Basketball (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Uwhetu (t · c)
19 Mar 2026 – Draft:Armond De'andre Lloyd (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pictoframe (t · c)
15 Mar 2026 – Draft:Jomo Cousins (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mrmichael423 (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

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