Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American Football League

Trade deadline

I've converted Trade deadline from a redirect page to an article stub. I was really, really surprised that there was no article about this significant sports terminology. (The term had redirected to a disambiguation page concerning its purely commercial/financial sense.) However, knowing next to nothing about AFL I'm hoping others can help in expanding the article as regards trade deadlines in AFL, and also correct any errors I may have made in the term's definition etc.. Cheers, A bit iffy 15:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

AFL Project

I would be glad to help in any way possible in this project. I have original clippings, photos, etc. of American Football League games. I have a private website at http://www.remembertheafl.com/AFL.htm which contains or links to biographies and photos of hundreds of American Football League players. I have a database of American football League players showing every man who played in the American Football League. I created and am continually addng names to List of American Football League players, and creating or updating pages for those players. I am in e-mail contact with over 300 former American Football League players, as well as with several authors of books about the American Football League, and can ask them for clarification or confirmation of their own or teammates' and opponents' performances.

Suggestions

• Wikipedia templates like "NFL player", "NFL player retired" and "NFL PlayerCoach" are generally incorrect when the player served in a league other than the NFL. Many American Football League players never played in the NFL: many NFL players also played in other leagues, including the American Football League. I created templates "Infobox Pro Football player" and "Infobox Pro Football player retired", which permit correct display of a player's American Football League draft information, and his American Football League All-Star Game appearances, which were NOT "pro bowl" appearances. That appellation is a convenience by the NFL and writers/webmasters not wanting to take the trouble to identify the American Football League's All-Star games. "Infobox Pro Football player" and "Infobox Pro Football player retired" also differentiate between the player's service for American Football League teams and NFL teams. Joe Namath, for example, played for the American Football League Jets from 1965 through 1969, and the NFL Jets from 1970 through 1976. The template "NFL PlayerCoach" is an incorrect reference, for example, for Tom Flores and Art Shell, and should be changed to "Pro Football PlayerCoach". Wikipedia's "NFL Player" and other "NFL Project" templates also incorrectly show draft information: they show only NFL draft data, and they cite the non-existent 1967, 1968, and 1969 "NFL drafts". The draft in those years was a Common Draft held by the American Football League and the NFL after the NFL agreed, after the 1966 season, to merge with the American Football League. The actual merger took place in 1970, but the Common Draft began in 1967, and was not called the "NFL draft".
• I would be glad to discuss this with you through e-mail. My address is RemembertheAFL@aol.com. Read my bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Felice_Coniglio SugnuSicilianu 16:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Players Height & Weight

Can I ask why there are no player's heights and weight on individual players? Its a surprising ommission given these stats are so often quoted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yozick72 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreation

As you may know, we currently have 400 good article nominations, with a large number of them being in the sports and recreation section. As such, the waiting time for this is especially long, much longer than it should be. As a result of this, I am asking each sports-related WikiProject to review two or three of these nominations. If this is abided by, then the backlog should be cleared quite quickly. Some projects nominate a lot but don't review, or vice-versa, and following this should help to provide a balance and make the waiting time much smaller so that our articles can actually get reviewed! Wizardman 23:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Created separate assessment categories for this project

For whatever reason this project's project banner was tagging its articles with"National Football League" assessment categories, rather than "American Football League" categories. This was causing confusion when articles were tagged with different assessments for the two projects; when this occurred, the article was appearing in two different NFL assessment categories. I've corrected this and created a new set of assessment categories specifically for this project. — DeeJayK (talk) 18:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople

An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:44, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

File:AFL Football.png is missing evidence of permission

File:AFL Football.png, which is used in Template:User WikiProject American Football League, is missing evidence of permission, and may be deleted after 1 March 2013, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion, unless evidence can be provided that the creator of the image has agreed to release the image under the GFDL or another free license. —Bkell (talk) 03:36, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

AfD: 1967 American Football League draft

I've nominated the 1967 American Football League draft article for deletion. This and the subsequent two years the NFL and AFL participated in a Common draft. As such, this topic is covered in more detail in the 1967 NFL draft article. If you'd like to share your opinion on the topic, please do so on the AfD discussion page or on the article talk page. — DeeJayK (talk) 16:53, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

The discussion on this topic has expanded to how to deal with the entire series of articles that cover the NFL/AFL common draft era. We'd love to get more input from NFL and football editors at the AfD discussion page. — DeeJayK (talk) 15:21, 28 October 2015 (UTC)