Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-league football

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The primary goal of this project to improve the qualiity of articles related to Non-league football. 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, have a look at the projects and tasks loewr down the page, or inquire on the talk page.

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1 Title
2 Main goals
3 Related WikiProjects
- 3.1 Sister Project Searches
4 Participants
5 Projects
6 Tasks
7 Adopt an article
8 Templates
9 Categories
10 Major articles on Non-league football

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Non-league football

[edit] Main goals

To increase the standard of Wikipedia's coverage of non-league football.
To provide basic information on non-league clubs and competitions
To provide an area where contributors interested in non-league football can identify each other and discuss any issues.
To organise a collaboration on non-league football, with a view to writing featured articles on the subject.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

The parent project of this WikiProject is WikiProject Football. No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Sister Project Searches

[edit] Participants

User	Non-league club(s) supported	Relevant stuff you'd like to work on
Cantthinkofagoodname	F.C. United of Manchester	Conference clubs, English leagues, AFC Wimbledon, NWCFL and its clubs
Goonerz	Walton & Hersham F.C.	Maintaining Sites
tompw	Chippenham Town F.C.	Leagues and stub club articles
Aabha R	-	Club articles
Rje	Nuneaton Borough F.C.	Midlands clubs in the upper-reaches of non-league football
Dtfcdev	Dorchester Town F.C.	Conference South Clubs and Conference North Clubs
Dave Hatton	Gloucester City	Gloucester City and other Southern League clubs
Dancarney	AFC Sudbury	Eastern Counties League
ChrisTheDude	none, just general interest	I'm currently working to de-stub all articles in the Conference South and the leagues working down from it.....
Rakuten06	Gloucester City A.F.C.	Just the clubs articles that have stubs on it
Kingfisherswift	Hendon F.C.	Conference south and Ryman League clubs, plus anything else I can help with.
cfcrule1	Aldershot Town F.C.	Pretty much everything down to level 23
Govvy	Potters Bar Town F.C.	Like to help on teams in Hertfordshire.
Rowan	Exeter City F.C.	Anything.
Balerion	none	Miscellaneous, not an expert in any one area
Mattythewhite	York City F.C.	Conference and York City.
Stevefarrell	Vauxhall Motors F.C.	Conference North and feeders, particularly North West Counties League clubs progressing to higher levels.
MLD	AFC Wimbledon, formerly Wimbledon F.C.	AFC Wimbledon / Wimbledon; Ryman / Isthmian League and supporter-owned clubs and supporters' trusts.
gasheadsteve	Mangotsfield United F.C.	Anything
Vicard	Carshalton Athletic F.C.	Mainly Isthmian and a little bit of Conf South but also youth / reserves setups
Aheyfromhome	Mossley A.F.C.	Local boy. Improving the Mossley page tinkering with other Tameside teams
Harrias	Truro City F.C.	Non-league football in the Midlands and Cornwall.
Beaver Patrol	Hampton & Richmond Borough	Maintaining the HRBFC page, and editing other Ryman Premier pages.
WikiGull	Just general, but the way it's going, Torquay United.	Anything.
Soopahoops77	Stevenage Borough	Stevenage Borough, work on the Conference (Nat, N and S), football leagues in the South and Hertfordshire.
Che84	Oxford United	Conference National, Oxford, Americans in Europe
SwedishGreen	Bromsgrove Rovers	Worcestershire football, or anything.
Tangerines	General	Non-league clubs on the Fylde Coast, also NWCL, Unibond League, West Lancashire League etc

[edit] Projects

Reduce number of clubs stubs (see Category:English football club stubs) There are currently around 650-700. If all participants aimed to make one club article per day non-stub, then it would not take long. Things a club page should have to be made non-stub:
- Details of league played in, and rough geographic location (county / borough).
- Completed infobox
- Brief history and club records (Football Club History Database is useful here, but always cite your sources)
- Link to club website
- League template (where there is one - see User:tompw/leaguetemplates for current list
See Chippenham Town F.C. for an example of a article with the minimum for non-stub statusTompw (talk) 13:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Letter of month: K There are just seven club stubs starting with the letter K: Kelvedon Hatch F.C. - Keynsham Town F.C. - Kidsgrove Athletic F.C. - Kimberley Town F.C. - Kirby Muxloe SC - Kirkley F.C. - Kiveton Park F.C.
Expand league articles. Most of the articles for leagues at at level 10 or below are little more than stubs. Any league article should include:
- {{Infobox football league}}
- Geographic area covered
- Current number of divisions / teams.
- Recent champions, if not all.
- League template (for all divisions), plus promotion/relegation info
- External link
Tompw (talk) 13:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Example article: User:Example
Clayton Donaldson - Mattythewhite

[edit] Templates

For talk pages of relevant articles, use Template:Non-League Football

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League Templates

see User:Tompw/leaguetemplates

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[edit] Categories

Category:Football in England

Category:English football competitions

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