Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Ireland task force
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Welcome to the WikiProject on Irish association football (including football in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). This page contains suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or include yourself as a participant below.
This descendant project's parent-project is the WikiProject Football.
Scope
[edit]This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organise standards for Irish football-related articles, resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and also making all articles related to Irish football easy to find. Also, the project plans improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish football, to form a co-operative effort of contributions amongst Irish football editors and aid the collaboration of editors with an interest in Irish football, as well as to provide an area where contributors interested in Irish football can identify each other and discuss any issues relevant to their area of interest or where they want to direct their activities.
Goals
[edit]Write and maintain articles:
- on an overview of football in Ireland, including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
- on youth national teams in both countries.
- on women's national teams in both countries.
- on all notable football clubs in Ireland.
- on all notable football players in Ireland.
- on all notable football stadiums in Ireland.
- on all notable football competitions in Ireland.
- on all past seasons in the League of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Football League.
- on all notable matches and derbies in Irish football.
Improve articles:
- to make them comply with standards set up here and on the parent-project.
- to develop them into featured articles eventually.
Categorise articles:
- to make it easy to find what you want to find.
Participants
[edit]This is a list of Irish football task force participants. New participants can join by editing this page and adding their details to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.
Featured articles
[edit]The below articles demonstrate the standards that this task force strives to achieve. They are considered our showcase articles, the "best-in-class" items that fall under our remit to support.
Derry City F.C. (peer review and featured article candidacy), an article supported by the Irish football task force, once reached featured article (FA) status.
| Featured and Good content | |||
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| Article | Type | Peer Review | FAC / FLC |
 List of international goals scored by David Healy
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Featured List | FLC | |
 Derry City F.C.
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Former Featured Article | Peer reviewed | FAC 1st, 2nd, FAR |
 Linfield F.C.
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Good Article | FAC 1st | |
| Shamrock Rovers F.C.
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Good Article | ||
| Dundalk F.C.
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Good Article | ||
| Sunday football in Northern Ireland
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Good Article | ||
| The Oval (Belfast)
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Good Article | ||
| Michael Ingham (footballer)
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Good Article | ||
| Shay Given
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Good Article | ||
| Jack Charlton
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Good Article | ||
| Liam Miller
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Good Article | ||
Guidelines
[edit]Welcome! Below are some of the actions you can take to help the taskforce achieve the aforementioned goals.
Tagging and assessment
[edit]Any articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with {{WikiProject Football|Irish=yes}} in their Talk page. This will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories.
Note: Ireland=yes is technically valid but is a non-standard input.
Article rating
[edit]The WikiProject Football's assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's football related articles. Below is a table of Irish football articles listed by quality and importance:
| Football in Ireland articles by quality and importance | ||||||
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| High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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1 | 1 | ||||
| FL
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4 | 4 | ||||
 GA
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1 | 16 | 7 | 24 | ||
| B | 7 | 21 | 26 | 54 | ||
| C | 11 | 105 | 188 | 304 | ||
| Start | 9 | 308 | 1,310 | 1,627 | ||
| Stub | 1 | 75 | 1,536 | 66 | 1,678 | |
| List | 11 | 68 | 79 | |||
| Category | 2,189 | 2,189 | ||||
| Disambig | 1 | 1 | ||||
| File | 22 | 22 | ||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Project | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Redirect | 44 | 44 | ||||
| Template | 193 | 193 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Assessed | 29 | 536 | 3,141 | 2,456 | 66 | 6,228 |
| Total | 29 | 536 | 3,141 | 2,456 | 66 | 6,228 |
The following is a set of rough guidelines for assessing importance to articles within the scope of the taskforce:
- Top - Vital to an understanding of Irish football.
- High - Significant events in Irish football history, vital contributions to Irish football, Irish international record holders, world renowned Irish players or managers, current international team stadia, top level leagues.
- Mid - Considerable contributions to Irish football, Irish club record holders, Irish international footballers, Irish professional clubs, previous international team stadia.
- Low - Notable events in Irish football history, minor contributions to Irish football, Irish professional footballers, Irish non-league or amateur clubs that have played at a national level.
The proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner is:
100% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)
The proportion of all articles with known importance is:
98.9% known importance (Note that articles inherit importance from the main football project by default, though this can be changed to a task force-specific rating)
Category Trees
[edit]Below is a list of articles currently assigned to the taskforce:
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Article improvement drive
[edit]A fortnightly collaboration to improve an Irish football-related article to featured article standard.
Immediate tasks
[edit]As of January 2025,
- Ensure that the 2025 League of Ireland Premier Division article is kept up to date.
- Create an article on every League of Ireland player.
- Ensure that League of Ireland club articles are kept up to date.
New articles
[edit]Add newly-created articles relating to Irish football below:
- Fairview Rangers A.F.C. (created September 17, 2025)
- Tom Coughlan (football chairman) (created November 3, 2009)
- League of Ireland Premier Division Manager of the Year (created November 3, 2009)
- Goal of the Season (Ireland) (created November 3, 2009)
- League of Ireland Player of the Month (created November 3, 2009)
- Bohemians–Shamrock Rovers rivalry (created November 4, 2009)
- League of Ireland Premier Division Manager of the Month (created November 4, 2009)
- Derbies in the League of Ireland (created November 4, 2009)
- Republic of Ireland football league system (created November 4, 2009)
- All-Ireland League (association football) (created November 14, 2009)
- Fingal Sports Complex (created November 28, 2009)
- Eircom Park (created February 15, 2010)
Requested articles
[edit]Add articles that you would like to create or see created in the future below:
- Fan culture in Irish football
- Irish clubs in Europe
- League of Ireland Premier Division records
- List of FAI Cup finals
- Goal of the Month (Ireland)
- List of football players with a League of Ireland winner's medal
- Article on all past seasons of the League of Ireland (see Template:League of Ireland Premier Division)
- Articles on all past FAI Cup and League of Ireland Cup finals/seasons
Articles in need of improvement
[edit]Add articles you feel are in need of serious and immediate improvement below:
- 2009 FAI Cup final (created November 22, 2009)
- Ireland national cerebral palsy football team {also needs to be moved to 'ROI national CP football team'} (created 25 August 2016)
- Northern Ireland national cerebral palsy football team(created 25 August 2016)
- Ulster Senior League (association football)
- Leinster Senior League (association football)
- Munster Senior League (association football)
- Cork Athletic Union League
- Galway & District League
- Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team
- Football Association of Ireland, Women's
- Westport United F.C.
- All-Ireland League (association football)
- Tom Coughlan (football chairman)
Categories
[edit]Add important categories relating to the project below:
- Category:Association football music in the Republic of Ireland
- Category:League of Ireland
- Category:League of Ireland seasons
- Category:League of Ireland players
- Category:League of Ireland managers
- Category:Association football venues in Northern Ireland
- Category:Association football venues in the Republic of Ireland
- Category:Association football clubs in Northern Ireland
- Category:Association football clubs in the Republic of Ireland
- Category:Northern Ireland national football team
- Category:Republic of Ireland national football team
- Category:Northern Ireland national football team results
- Category:Republic of Ireland national football team results
Important articles on Irish football
[edit]General:
- Association football in Northern Ireland
- Association football in the Republic of Ireland
- List of association football clubs in the Republic of Ireland
Associations:
National teams:
- Ireland national football team (1882–1950)
- Northern Ireland national football team
- Republic of Ireland national football team
Competitions:
Manual of Style (conventions)
[edit]Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions:
Articles
[edit]Manual of style for a few common types of article:
- Club manual of style
- National team manual of style
- National association manual of style
- Competition manual of style
- Match manual of style
- Player manual of style
- Stadium manual of style
General manuals of style:
Categories
[edit]Info on in what category articles should be placed:
Templates
[edit]Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:
The following templates shall be used specifically for this project:
| Banner to be added to talk pages relevant to the project: {{Football|Irish=yes}} |
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| Userbox: {{User WikiProject Irish Football}} |
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Notability
[edit]How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:
Useful links
[edit]A collection of useful external links:
Assessment department
[edit]The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's football related articles.
Popular pages
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| Women's | ||
| Other | ||
