Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian football

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This project page is within the scope of WikiProject Canadian football, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Canadian football and the Canadian Football League on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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[edit] It begins

this is the begining of a great wikiproject that will improve everything pertaining to the cfl Burnqq 04:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Would anyone like to assist the CFL in a league sanctioned project? Contact me...csonnemann@cfl.ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by Csonnemann (talk • contribs) 20:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed football player biography work group

There is now a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#North American football players for a group which would work specifically on articles relating to biographies of individual players, coaches, and other related individuals. Any parties interested in working with such a group are encouraged to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start the group in earnest. Thank you. John Carter 13:29, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Category:Canadian Football League templates should prove quite useful to this project. heqs ·:. 16:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CFD notice

See related discussion on categories here and here. heqs ·:. 17:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template and List rankings for articles

I have categorized all of the previously unranked Canadian football articles as of 23 November 2007, but some of them are lists and templates. While the WPCFL template recognizes them as proper rankings, the existing categories containing the articles do not and thus keep all articles ranked Template or List in Category:Unassessed Canadian football articles. I think we could benefit greatly from two new categories, Category:Template-class Canadian football articles and Category:List-class Canadian football articles. I would be more than willing to create them myself if someone could teach me how to do it. TFCforever (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gretzky?

How does Wayne Gretzky fit into this project? -Royalguard11(T·R!) 19:26, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Former owner of Toronto Argonauts. DoubleBlue (Talk) 19:39, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
I guess you learn something new everyday on Wikipedia. -Royalguard11(T·R!) 19:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Community ownership

I don't understand the Esk's "community ownership"! What does it mean? I'm in the community? Do I own them? Kevlar67 (talk) 19:34, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Answered by own question. See the new Ownership section on Edmonton Eskimos.Kevlar67 (talk) 22:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Player pages format

I have developed a suggested WikiProject Canadian football/Player pages format page to help improve and standardise player articles. It is drawn largely from WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format, Template:Biography, and some of the recognised good Canadian football, American football, and sport biography articles.

Comments, suggestions, and editing welcome. Once agreed on, we can suggest following it on the WikiProject Canadian football page. Cheers! DoubleBlue (Talk) 17:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] move Safety (American football) → Safety (football position)

[edit] Wayne Gretzky Featured Article Review

Hello, this article, which falls under the scoope of your project, is currently listed as a Featured Article. I felt that there is sufficient reason to revisit this assessment, so I have listed it for a Featured Article Review. My preference is to see the concerns addressed and have the article remain at its current level, but some work its needed. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Wayne Gretzky. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CFL (disambiguation)

CFL currently redirects to Canadian Football League. There is a proposal to change CFL into a dab page. Please discuss at Talk:CFL (disambiguation) . DoubleBlue (Talk) 03:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Season pages; formatting, content, length

Hi there. Newest project member here, with a few questions and comments (and don't be surprised if I have many more!), specifically about the CFL club season pages. I've been working sporadically on 2007 Calgary Stampeders season, and was hoping to get some feedback.

I haven't been able to find an agreed-to base format for season pages (as this is to player pages), therefore I decided to be bold and made it up as I went along. I copied a great deal of the formatting from 2007 Toronto Argonauts season, and tried to expand upon it as much as I could, including the subsections for each game, complete with a boxscore (I haven't added a detailed written account of each game yet). After having taken a peek at 2007 Washington Redskins season for inspiration, I also added a complete schedule of the regular season, and other relevant information to each game's subsection (up to now including attendance, kickoff time and televisers; the Redskins article also includes weather information and the television announcers, if known). So far so good, in my opinion.

I've also been trying to source everything, to the point I think I went a little overboard.

I've also added a statistics section, not unlike 2007 Washington Redskins season, with a few tweaks to make the underlying table comply with Canadian football (adding columns for singles on kicking plays, for example), and generally trying to make it follow the format of the CFL's own statistics where allowed (I haven't for example added a detailed breakdown of stats per game per player, but if one wanted to they could, as the CFL keeps a lot of stats). I still haven't added defensive statistics.

Now, after adding this content, the page is closing in on 40 kb. It's enormous! And it's not even close to being 'done'. What content do you believe is and is not appropriate for the article? Should I just keep plugging away? I feel it's getting a little cumbersome to read.

Any comments are appreciated. --93JC (talk) 04:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice work! I would certainly not criticise your referencing. It is what all our articles should look like. As you mentioned, it is definitely in need of some prose and critically lacking an introduction. There is, of course, a duplication of the information in the season schedule table and in the weekly recaps. Perhaps the schedule table is unnecessary? I recognise that it is an at-a-glance review of the results, however.
I would also appreciate any comments you have on the player pages format page. Cheers! DoubleBlue (Talk) 05:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)