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Wikipedia:WikiProject College football

Wikipedia:WikiProject College football

Welcome to WikiProject College football! Our mission is to continually expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of college football. This page and its subpages contain a forum for coordinating editors' efforts and building and maintaining quality and coherent style across all college football articles. If you would like to help, sign your name on the project participants list, visit our project's talk page, and check out the lists of requested tasks and articles in need of attention to see how you can help. Or give one of the participants listed below a shout if you have a question or need some direction.

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Scope

As stated above, this project covers all aspects of college football including articles about college football history, the programs and traditions of individual schools, college football rivalries, notable games, awards, rankings and championship systems, and overviews of seasons on a national, conference, and individual team basis. Articles regarding the stadiums and venues, mascots, fight songs, and other pageantry that support college football teams or events are also included in the project. Biography articles for college football coaches, players, and other notable contributors such as journalists and sportscasters fall within the scope of this project. In many cases, such biography articles will also fall under the scope of WikiProject National Football League or other sports-related projects. In addition, articles that cover American football concepts and strategies that underwent significant development within the crucible of college football, such as touchdown, two-point conversion, or option offense, also fall under the purview of this project.

This project is limited to college football in the United States under the umbrella of the NCAA and the NAIA. At present, college football in Canada is organized under Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football—however, there are some colleges that participate in both Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and NAIA football. No other organized effort exists for non-American college football. If a need develops, a task force for British college football may be created. This project also does not cover junior college football, sprint football, or club teams. See WP:CFBTEAMS for more detail.

At present, effort is concentrated in the following areas (examples in parentheses):

Goals

  • Organizational
  1. Create a set of standardized templates and article formats for coaches, teams, etc.
  2. Tag all college football articles, images, and other elements by placing the WikiProject College football template at the top of their talk pages.
  3. Categorize all college football articles into subcategories.
  4. Create subcategories for stubs and reclassify stubs into those subcategories.
  5. Find all college football stubs and label them.
  • Content
  1. Make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on college football.
  2. Bring College football to featured article status.
  3. Keep 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season and related articles up to date, and maintain them as a reliable resource for enthusiasts during the season.
  4. Increase number of good articles and featured articles within the project.
  • Portal
  1. Maintain Portal:College football and bring it to featured portal status.

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Guides and resources

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

  • Style guide: overview of style of common types of articles in the project
  • Naming conventions: addresses some article naming conventions, with discussion leading to it on talk page
  • Templates: commonly used templates for college football articles
  • Images: sets guidelines and offers suggestions for images (photos, maps, logos, etc.) related to college football
  • Notability: a comprehensive essay covering notability of organizations, teams, coaches, players, events, and other subjects related to the project
  • Game summaries: Tips and guidelines for writing game summaries either as stand-alone articles or integrated into season or other articles.
  • Reliable sources: guidelines about what does and does not constitute a reliable source in the world of college football teams and related topics
  • Vacated victories: guidelines on reporting vacated victories

Structure and format

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.

Article formats

List formats

Alerts, new articles, open issues

Alerts

Today's featured article requests

Did you know

Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

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Good article reassessments

  • 24 Mar 2024 – Patrick Omameh (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Teratix (t · c); see discussion
  • 21 Apr 2024 – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football (talk · edit · hist) nominated for GA reassessment by Onegreatjoke (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requested moves

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Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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New college football articles

Please feel free to list your new college football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). By listing them here, we invite other editors to help expand and improve these new articles. New articles that have an interesting or unusual fact can also be nominated (within 7 days of creation/heavy expansion) for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. Please remember to add {{WikiProject College football}} to the talk page of the article.

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Articles in need of attention

Please feel free to ask for help from your fellow college football fans here (newer articles at the top, please).

  • Malone Stadium - This article need to be updates, there is not much information about this article. The stadium at UL-Monroe has lots of history and a new scoreboard was installed. The stadium also plans to get a new athletic complex built. Much more information would be great! WillAndersULM (talk) 01:06, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Dynasty (sports) College football sections need a lot of cleanup and citations (note that in the context of this article that means citation not of championships or stats, but that a team has been called a dynasty by a reliable source). Also probably needs some correction; are Yale's 1874 to 1909 "championships" considered D-I FBS (or even NCAA?). Ideally this would be rewritten into prose (rather than list) discussion of college football dynasties.
  • Blue-Gray Football Classic- Needs some dressing up, and I don't think it's templated/categorized properly for this project. I'm on a small wikibreak, but I keep hearing this game referenced on sportstalk radio lately ('tis the season), so punting to here... Cake (talk) 20:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Open deletion discussions

Deletion review history

Articles and pages requested to be moved

Open

Requests

See also: Category:Needed-Class college football articles

General

Games

Teams

For the master list, see Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Master team table.

Players and coaches

Historically significant teams without articles

Project editors have established and maintained articles for all 131 current NCAA Division I FBS football programs. However, many lower division and defunct college football programs remain without standalone articles. For example, the following schools made important contributions to the sport, but do not currently have football articles:

World War II-era military service training programs

College football content

As of August 2016, over 38,000 articles and lists and more than 18,000 images, categories, templates and other support elements have been identified within the scope of WikiProject College football; see here. As such, there are too many college football articles on Wikipedia to list them all here. Below are categories that contain college football-related articles:

Category trees

College football
WikiProject College football

The College football Wikiproject currently maintains Portal:College football and assists on an as-needed basis in the maintenance of Portal:American football. Editors are encouraged to submit and nominate content on both portals. Portal:College football/Selected Content/Nominations provides an overview of scheduled content and examples of what qualifies to be featured content. In addition, important college football events should be added to the College Football News section of the portal, which is also maintained by project members.

Recognized content

Featured article candidates

Good articles

Former good articles

Good article nominees

Did you know? articles

Participants

Here is a list of College Football Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Participant List, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.


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