Barnstar, clubyears, etc. 

Just following in your footsteps, haha.  Thanks for the barnstar, by the way!  And what resources are you using for the USL all-time rosters? - I'd be happy to help.

Here's a question: we previously discussed the "clubyears" infobox category for MLS players, and agreed that the clubyears listed should correspond with years played.  I'm going through various Chivas USA players right now, as you saw — finishing up the all-time roster for that club — and noticing how much confusion there has been on this issue over the years at Wikipedia.

I guess I'd propose a uniform standard, based on the way that MLSnet lists player stats (and based on the nature of the league): any season for which a player is rostered with a team is counted into the clubyears section.  For instance, if a guy plays for Colorado in the 2006 season and is traded to Columbus before the 2007 season begins, only 2006 is listed.  But if a guy plays for Colorado in the 2006 season and is traded to Columbus during the 2007 season (June, say), both 2006 and 2007 are listed as years for his Colorado tenure even if he didn't play a match for Colorado during 2007.  I think this is the best way to record years — and, happily, it conforms with the way the league's official site records stats.

I have been thinking that we US-soccer editors might want to have some sort of official "summit" (or meeting, or whatever) on the talk page of the US/Canada WP:FOOTY taskforce...we could nail down guidelines on a number of tricky issues which are particular to American soccer, or at least somewhat unusual...like the exact way to list colleges, the way to list years, when to use accents in names, how to properly disambiguate American players, all kinds of things.  Then we could write these guidelines out and put them up so that newer editors understand how to do things. ''' 《Defender of Open Editing》'''