Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football

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WP:CFL

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Canadian football and the Canadian Football League (CFL). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and check out the to-do list.

Title

Wikiproject on the Canadian Football League → renamed to WikiProject on Canadian football

To do list

Articles under discussion

Did you know

07 Nov 2024 – Tony Pajaczkowski (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion

Categories for discussion

07 Nov 2024 – Category:African-American coaches of Canadian football (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Crowsus (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

15 Nov 2024 – Thaddeus Coleman (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); start discussion
01 Nov 2024 – Cameron Echols-Luper (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); start discussion
31 Oct 2024 – Aston Whiteside (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); start discussion
14 Oct 2024 – Jarriel King (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

01 Nov 2024 – Steven Miller (gridiron football) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Steven Miller (gridiron football, born 1941) by Pppery (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

Scope

The aim of this WikiProject is to organize, standardize, and improve the quality of all article pertaining to the CFL/Canadian football. It includes all articles within the Category:Canadian football, with particular attention to Category:Canadian Football League.

A list of articles falling under the Canadian football category is listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football/Articles (caution: this list is 638 kb long). Check Recent changes to these articles.

Parent Projects

Similar WikiProjects

Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the top of the list with an asterisk and three tildes (~~~).

If you would like to add our category to your userbox to your userpage, insert {{Member WikiProject CFL}}

It will look like this:

This user participates in
WikiProject
Canadian football.

Active

Inactive

The following users had not made an edit for two years as of August 18, 2016.

Volunteer recognition

The Maple Leaf Award may be awarded to recognise those who have made a significant contribution toward Canadian football articles.

Goals

Improve all league and team pages
Improve and create pages for CFL Players
Standardize all CFL pages
Create a complete history of the league

Structure

Article formats

See the following sub pages for information on article structures. If you would like to comment on the recommended format for an article type, please do so on the talk page for that article type's subpage.

Team Pages (e.g., Toronto Argonauts)
Player Pages

and Naming conventions

Coach Pages
Season Pages (e.g., 2007 CFL season)
Team Season Pages (e.g., 2007 BC Lions season)
Championship Pages (e.g., Vanier Cup and 95th Grey Cup)
CFL Draft Pages (e.g., 2008 CFL Draft)

Category tree

Recognized content

Canadian football articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1			5			6
FL		2	1				3
GA	2	2	6	50		10	70
B	6	1	14	34		26	81
C	9	10	24	181		131	355
Start	14	32	219	1,721		1,344	3,330
Stub	7	14	107	1,767		2,244	4,139
List		4	15	52		103	174
Category					826		826
Disambig					6		6
File					372		372
Project					14		14
Template					499		499
NA				1	76		77
Other					6		6
Assessed	39	65	386	3,811	1,799	3,858	9,958
Unassessed						8	8
Total	39	65	386	3,811	1,799	3,866	9,966
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 43,287			Ω = 5.42

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Canadian football articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Templates

{{WikiProject Canadian football}} - to be added to the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project.
{{Infobox CFL biography}} - Infobox for biography article on players, coaches, or executives
{{Infobox league season}} - Infobox for league season articles
{{Infobox NFL season}} - Infobox for team season articles
{{Infobox Canadian football game}} - Infobox for game articles such as a Grey Cup or Vanier Cup
CFL coach templates, Canadian Football League navigational boxes, Canadian Football League roster templates
{{Canadian football invite}} - Invite for the project
{{Canadian football welcome}} - Welcome message for the project

Resources

O'Brien, Steve (2005), The Canadian Football League: The Phoenix of Professional Sports Leagues, Lulu Press, ISBN 1411658604
Wieting, Stephen G (2001). Sport and memory in North America. Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-8205-5.
Zawadzki, Edward (2004), The Ultimate Canadian Sports Trivia Book, Volume 2, Dundurn Group, ISBN 1550025295

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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