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2012 Africa Cup of Nations article improvement drive[edit]

Copied from WT:FOOTBALL

There will be an article improvement drive to improve all national teams playing in the 2012 African Cup of Nations. The goal is to get all articles to C-class (except Ghana, which is at B-class). The drives ends on February 12. If you enjoy improving national football teams, then consider joining national teams task force. Below is a list of teams in the 2012 ACoN with class icons.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Ideally, I'm looking for four people or more to help (at least one person per group, I'll be the fourth if needed). Please add your name and your chosen group below, if participating. Change the class icons when appropriate, and strike finished teams. Happy editing, BCS (Talk) 19:55, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

African women's national football teams[edit]

Hi. I've been hard at work creating articles about the lesser well known, have played very few international women's teams in Africa and have nominated several for Good Article. If some one could review these articles at WP:GAN, that would be much appreciated. :) The articles have a problem of being a bit formulaic as they have a lot of similar development issues because well, the teams barely exist. Anyway, that would be appreciated. --LauraHale (talk) 08:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pacific Islands national teams[edit]

Hi, I have been working recently on trying to improve the football information of some nations like Palau and Kiribati as you will be able to see on my User page. I have done all I can but sadly do not know much information as my level of input on these nations can only stretch to a personal interest, and not a well-informed knowledge. If anyone knows any information about the national football teams of some island nations in the pacific i (and Wikipedia) would be greatful if you could add it.

Some example nations:

Thank you! - KHarber, July 25th 2012

Great job with Kiribati! Remember to use plenty of references, FIFA.com is your friend. Talk to me on my talk page if you need help. -- BCS (t · c · !) 16:57, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

U-14 national teams[edit]

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#U-14_national_teams. Sven Manguard Wha? 06:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment[edit]

Due to no consensus on a previous discussion re: article naming, there is a second discussion open about moving Australia national association football team to Australia men's national association football team. We are seeking outside input and saw your name listed on the Feedback request service. Contributions to the discussion is much appreciated. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 01:43, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Opening paragraph leads FAs[edit]

I am looking at the Scotland national football team and Peru national football team leads, both FAs. If I interpret the MOS:LEAD correctly for the opening paragraph, I would think that:

being part of FIFA, CONMEBOL is something for later in the lead, not first paragraph. This is about the squad not the governing body
the team's best results should be spelled out
text like twice should not be used to link to article pages about the squad's performances, don't need links for those, as the rest of the lead can give more details
an indication of how good they currently are
the stadium where they mostly play is something for later in the lead, not the first paragraph
the infobox image is of a current/recent squad, not the symbol for its association

May I suggest the Peruvian lead opens like this:

The Peru national football team has represented Peru in international football since 1927. Organised by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF),^[A] the team has won the Copa América twice and qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals four times. Its most successful periods are the 1930s and the 1970s, and as of October 2015 it ranks 50th on the FIFA World Rankings.

I'm currently looking at another team page, and would like to model it on an FA. Maybe all of this has already been discussed, in which case I don't want to make a fuss, but it seems we could do a better job for the reader by providing info they are more likely to need. Edwininlondon (talk) 20:37, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment of United Kingdom national football team[edit]

United Kingdom national football team, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:16, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New assessment for women's national teams[edit]

Considering that the Women's World Cup now attracts over a billion viewers worldwide and therefore is one of the most watched sporting events, I think it's time to re-evaluate the assessment criteria for the women's teams and move them up so they are on equal terms with the men's teams. There are still far fewer women's teams that have participated in the World Cup, so there will still be a great discrepancy in numbers of teams between men's and women's that qualifies for the top importance category. --Mango från yttre rymden (talk) 14:14, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

El Salvador national football team GA Reassessment[edit]

El Salvador national football team, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. --Whiteguru (talk) 06:43, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Local national team[edit]

"Local national team" is new to me today from reading 2021 FIFA Arab Cup where "Algeria[11][12][13] and Morocco[14][15] will take part in the tournament with their A' local teams."

1. Now I understand these A' or local teams, and primary men's teams (for lack of another name), to be variants of the senior men's national team from FIFA perspective. Their records are combined by FIFA. Perhaps that should be said in A' team article leads.

2. For Morocco A' national football team and Algeria A' national football team, only two, I extended the article leads by adding linked distinction from the "primary men's" national teams. Perhaps all A' articles should contain some such boilerplate.

3. The lead paragraph of primary team article Morocco national football team concludes thus:

It is controlled by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, also known as FRMF. The team's colours are red and green. The team is a member of both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

Perhaps such lead sections should contain something like this:

... FRMF is a member of both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF). [Beside women and youth teams?] It also controls the Morocco A' national football team, or local national team, which is limited to resident senior men and represents Morocco in some international tournaments.

--P64 (talk) 20:52, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@P64: Sorry, I don't exactly understand the issue. Do you want to change the wording in the lead for certain articles? Nehme₁₄₉₉ 21:02, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I suggest, but don't volunteer to improve it further myself. Did you visit the linked articles?

2. Evidently more important. The two A' team articles did not even mention the existence of primary national teams in contrast to A' teams. Now they do, with linked explanations. Probably other A' team articles are silent. (No idea here how many A'/local team articles there may be.)

3. The two primary team articles (lead sections) do not mention A'/local teams, which may be ok(?). I offer for consideration example wording that would mention this wrinkle --in lead section of one main national team article, Morocco.

I haven't revised any main national team article, as i recall. But my purpose is to inform or cajole you all, not ask permission to do it myself. These afternoon hours are an exception for me, essentially a pre-CoViD wikip-editor and not sure I will resume.

I see Talk pages aren't used much now. --spectre from the last decade :--) P64 (talk) 22:17, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@P64: I think the lead looks good now. For a list of all A' teams, see Category:National A' association football teams. I'm not sure that the main national teams need to mention the A' teams. By the way, WT:FOOTY is much more active than this specific task force, so you can directly open a topic there next time; someone is bound to answer ASAP :) Nehme₁₄₉₉ 01:38, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs[edit]

Hey all,

Are the national team articles that are listed as stubs still just stubs? I've added some text to each of their History sections, obviously there'll need to be some cleaning up and additional references but I was wondering whether they now qualify as Start? Or whether anyone can offer any help with the articles in question!

The articles that I've edited are as follows:

The ones that I have yet to edit are:

Thanks,

Felixsv7 (talk) 16:18, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GAR notices[edit]

Cambodia women's national football team has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

Madagascar women's national football team has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

Mauritius women's national football team has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 17:08, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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