Wikipedia:WikiProject AFL

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organise standards for Australian Football League-related articles resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and to create a community of Australian rules football fans to further the development of information of the sport on Wikipedia.

[edit] What is AFL?

See the Portal:Australian rules football for more details.

[edit] What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia, that ANYONE (yes, even you) can edit. If you know anything about Australian rules football, feel free to add it to this site.

[edit] Latest news

[edit] Joel Selwood

The article is now our first FA! Aaroncrick (talk) 01:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] York Park

The article once again passed the Good Article Criteria. Aaroncrick (talk) 01:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] York Park

York Park has recently passed the Good Article Criteria. Aaroncrick (talk) 04:37, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mark of the Year

Hi everyone, Mark of the Year is currently a Featured-list candidate. Its taken a lot of work to get the article to this standard of quality, so any extra feedback would be invaluable. --Flewis^(talk) 07:14, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations to all who assisted in achieving the project's first Featured anything! The-Pope (talk) 13:12, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Australian Football League grounds

Hello everyone!

Just thought I'd let you all know that I will be editting the List of Australian Football League grounds over the next few days, as I am attempting to make it a featured list for the Wikipedia Featured Page Contest. I was wondering, once I have completed it and got it up to "featured list" standard, if I could have feedback about the list and also support once I nominate it for a featured list? - C4v3m4n (talk) 00:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

• Nice work. Reyk _YO! 02:55, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm going to make a few suggestions on how to improve the list on the article's talk page. Reyk _YO! 03:11, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New AFL location templates

Hey everyone!

If you wish to but the locations of current AFL or former VFL grounds, I have created two templates for everyone to use.

The current AFL stadiums template, can be used by writing {{AFL stadiums map}} into a wiki page. Click here to look at it.
The former VFL stadiums template, can be used by writing {{VFL stadiums map}} into a wiki page. Click here to look at it.

Any comments or feedback would be a great help too!

C4v3m4n (talk) 22:37, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

For old news, see the news archive.

[edit] Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 22 Nov 2009 – Adam Conkie (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

• 4 Nov 2009 – York Park (talk) is nominated by Aaroncrick.

Featured list candidates

• 21 Nov 2009 – List of Essendon Football Club honours (talk) is nominated by Dabomb87.

Good article nominations

• 24 Nov 2009 – Laurie Nash (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.

Did you know

• 24 Nov 2009 – A fact from Glenn James (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

• 23 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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[edit] List of participants

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(Members: 180 as of 11:05, 1 August 2009 (UTC))

[edit] Tasks to be completed

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject AFL:
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Ablett family, AFL Coaches Association, AFL Umpires Association, Australian Football Media Association, Kevin Ablett

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The WikiProject AFL To do list contains information on players, coaches, clubs, commentators and anything else that is relevant within the scope of this WikiProject.

122.109.210.216 (talk) 01:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of new articles

• See New WP:AFL articles

[edit] Lists

• List of nicknames used in Australian Rules
• List of overseas-born AFL players
• List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
• Category:Australian rules football player lists
• List of Australian rules football leagues in Australia
• List of Australian rules football leagues outside Australia
• List of Australian rules football umpires
• List of AFL players to have played more than 300 games
• List of Australian rules football incidents

[edit] Notability requirements

As part of Wikipedia, our project is required to abide by the notability guideline that apply to all articles. This section does not overrule or

The basic tenent is:

In a nutshell: If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article.

In regards to the notability of people there is an additional criteria (WP:ATHLETE) that states that "people who have competed at the fully professional level of a sport" are "generally notable". However, failure to meet this additional criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included; conversely, meeting one or more does not guarantee that a subject should be included. Should a person fail to meet this additional criteria, they may still be notable under Wikipedia:Notability.

[edit] AFL quiz

Test your footy knowledge at the Wikipedia:WikiProject AFL/Quiz

[edit] Resources

• All-time Player stats
• All-time Player Lists

[edit] Wikiproject AFL style guide

Wikiproject AFL participants have agreed to the following standards of editorial style to maintain a consistent look and feel to Australian rules football and Australian Football League articles. The guidelines are in sympathy with the origins of the game and with encyclopaedic standards. Editors are encouraged to follow these guidelines wherever possible.

When editing, this guide can be cited in the edit summary as "per AFL style guide".

1. Article club names: club article names and subsequent links to those articles should use official club titles as in Collingwood Football Club. Piped links can use Collingwood where applicable. Avoid using Collingwood Magpies as an article title.
2. Category club names: category names should similarly use official club titles as in Category:Collingwood Football Club coaches.
3. Unlinked references within articles can either use official club names, shortnames or club nicknames (eg. Magpies) according to the editors preference.
4. When referring to a player from an earlier era, the club name used should be the name applicable for that player at that time. For example Ted Whitten played for Footscray Football Club (never Western Bulldogs). Use of redirects or piped links ([[Western Bulldogs|Footscray Football Club]]) to the current club name is acceptable.
5. The main article for the sport is Australian rules football. Articles should not use the capitalisation Australian Rules Football.
6. In tables or ladders, use of shortnames or nicknames or combinations of both are acceptable as follows:

[edit] Infoboxes

• Template:Infobox afl player NEW is the current accepted version for use on all player and coach articles. It replaces the deprecated Template:Infobox afl player.
• Template:Infobox australian football club is for use on club articles
• Template:Infobox AFL season is for use on season articles (e.g. 2009 AFL season)