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Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League/Player pages format#Infobox

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This subpage details recommended article format and structure for NFL player pages. It generally reflects project consensus, which is subject to change.

Lead

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For current players, the lead should typically include:

Fictional example:

{{tq2|Robert Charles Smith (born January 18, 1982) is an American professional football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the third round of the 2004 NFL draft. Smith has also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, and Tennessee Titans.

Smith is a two-time Super Bowl champion, winning Super Bowl XLIII with the Steelers and Super Bowl XLV with the Packers, and was named Most Valuable Player of both games. He has been invited to ten Pro Bowls and is an eight-time first-team All-Pro selection. He was voted NFL Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press in 2007 and by Sporting News in 2009. Sports Illustrated named Smith its Sportsman of the Year in 2010. At Arizona State he was a consensus All-American in 2003, and he finished third in Heisman Trophy balloting.

Four weeks before the start of the 2006 NFL season, Smith underwent limb reattachment surgery after he lost his left arm in an automobile accident. He did not miss any playing time, and his quick recovery led sportswriter Wile E. Coyote of Acme Illustrated to christen him "Bionic Bob."[1] Outside of football, Smith operates the Bionic Burgers restaurant chain. He is the son of six-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter Archibald Smith.}}

Infobox

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{{t|Infobox NFL biography}} should be used for current and former NFL players. It should also be used for players who played in predecessor leagues such as the American Professional Football Association and the American Football League, and players in the Arena Football League and predecessors. If a player hasn't yet been drafted or never played in the NFL, generally the page should use {{t|infobox college football player}}.

=Highlights=

First of all, everything in the highlights section of the infobox should be cited somewhere in the body of the article. The infobox is not exempt from WP:CITE, WP:PROVEIT, WP:SOURCES, etc.

Awards and highlights should be listed in the following order:Template talk:Infobox NFL biography/Archive 17#Championships listed first

  1. Pro championships
  2. Pro championship MVPs
  3. League MVPs
  4. Other major individual awards (Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Rookie of the Year, etc.)
  5. First-team All-Pros
  6. Second-team All-Pros
  7. Pro Bowls
  8. Season statistical leaders (NFL passing yards leader, etc.)
  9. Pro career honors (retired number, etc.)
  10. College national championships
  11. College awards
  12. All-Americas
  13. Conference honors (SEC Defensive Player of the Year, etc.)
  14. All-Conferences (college only)
  15. College career honors

Highlights in the same category should be in chronological order. Order of highlights occurring in the same years and in the same category is up to discretion.

{{Infobox NFL biography

|name=Mister Accolade

|highlights=

; NFL records

  • Most career passing yards: 85,256
  • Most season passing yards: 6,032 (2007)
  • Most career passing touchdowns: 638
  • Most seasons passing touchdowns: 62 (2011)
  • Most passing touchdowns in a game: 8
  • Most consecutive games with a touchdown pass: 75

}}

==What to include==

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  • League championships (Super Bowl champion, NFL champion, AFL champion, AAFC champion, etc.)
  • Super Bowl MVPs
  • League MVPs from the following selectors: AP, NEA, PFWA, UPI, and the Joe. F. Carr Trophy

::List as NFL Most Valuable Player (year) when selected by one of the above.Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League/Archive 13#Do we need to standardize highlights?

::For college player of the year awards from AP, UPI, and Sporting News, list each award separately, as shown in example infobox.

==What to leave out==

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The following is generally considered too trivial or inappropriate for the infobox of an NFL player. As a rule of thumb, if an achievement doesn't have its own article it's probably too trivial.

==Miscellaneous notes==

  • "Champion" (as in Super Bowl champion) is not a proper noun, so should not be capitalized. "Championship" is typically capitalized if it is part of the name of the game, e.g. BCS National Championship.
  • Hall of fame inductions do not need to be stated in the "highlights" section if they're already displayed with banners, e.g. Pro Football Hall of Fame.
  • Wire services should not be italicized. Typically only magazines and newspapers are.

::Typical wire services (not italicized): Associated Press, United Press International, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association

::Typical magazines, newspapers, etc. (italicized): USA Today, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly

  • When listing All-American and All-Pro selections, there is no need to list the selector. If a player is selected to both the first and second team, whether by the same or different selectors, the player is listed as a first-team selection. List it as "First-team All-XXXX (19XX)".Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League/Archive_15#Le'Veon_Bell
    Note: first-team All-Pro selections listed at the top of player bios on Pro-Football-Reference can be misleading. The top only lists AP selections, as explained [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/about/allpro.htm here], and disregards all other selections. Scroll to the bottom of a player's bio to see all selections.

Body

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=General notes=

  • In most instances, and especially in prose, acronyms of football terms should be spelled out. E.g., do not shorten touchdown as TD, interception as INT, halfback as HB, quarterback as QB, etc. There is no reason to abbreviate these terms in the body (text) of the article. Spell out single-digit numbers (0–9) per MOS:SPELL09.

References

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Everything in an article of a living person must be cited to reliable sources. The most reputable sources one can reasonably expect to find for football players are the major U.S. newspapers: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, etc. The most commonly used reliable sources for current players include [http://www.espn.com/ ESPN], [http://www.nfl.com/ NFL.com], [http://www.foxsports.com/ Fox Sports], [http://www.nbcsports.com/ NBC Sports], and [http://www.cbssports.com/ CBS Sports]. Statistical reference sites are frequently used to track player stats, the most reputable of which include [http://www.espn.com/ ESPN], [http://www.nfl.com/ NFL.com], and [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/ Pro Football Reference].

Self-published sources such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or personal blogs should not be used in biographies of living persons unless published by that person.

External links

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Navboxes

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When grouping navboxes, use the default title of {{tl|Navboxes}}, "Links to related articles".Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_football/Archive_19#Navigation_boxes_in_coaching_articles_.28again.29

References (discussions)

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