Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

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Welcome to this related to association football. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the or write yourself up below. The significant milestones and achievements of the project can be found at the Milestones subpage.

This aims primarily to establish and organize standards for football related articles resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and possibly also in featured articles, and also making all articles related to football easy to find.

Write articles:

Improve articles:

Categorize articles:

Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Manual of style for a few common types of article:

Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:

Members of the project have collected a list of sources and links that could be of help to editors wishing to expand articles. The links collection lists all the websites of governing bodies such as FIFA and UEFA. It also contains player databases for all levels of competition, from National level to club level. The booklist lists some of the books that project members own. These members can be contacted for help in sourcing if information from these books is needed.

The proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner is:

95.7% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

83.8% known importance (estimate: some more articles may still need a banner)

   

For a list of recently created football articles, see:

This section lists those articles that are currently undergoing Peer review or are currently featured content candidates. Current good article candidates can be found on the good article candidates page under the Sports subheading.

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