This is a personal project on improving Monterey Bay FC related articles. It can be used as a reference for other folks wanting to improve articles in the same scope.

Monterey Bay FC - Main project goals

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  • Expand and improve the main Monterey Bay FC article to B quality
    • Add "Records" section after 3rd season?
    • Add "supporters and culture" section, talk about supporters groups, growing rivalries with Oakland and Sacramento?
    • Continue to expand MBFC2 section (until worthy of own article)
      • Mention MBFC2's jersey sponsor(s)
      • Mention result of 2nd season, player getting young player of the year
  • Expand and improve player articles (Create articles if needed)
  • Long term goal: Get a related article to B-class quality

Areas of Focus

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Top priority

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  • Improve Frank Yallop to B class quality [1] [2]
    • Coaching career
      • Canada
      • Galaxy [2006-07]
        • 2006
        • 2007
      • Quakes pt 2 [2008-13]
        • 2011
        • 2012
        • 2013
      • Chicago [2014-15]
        • Expand summary
          • See if any more notable info is out there
        • 2014
        • 2015
      • Arizona/Phoenix
        • Expand summary
        • 2016
        • 2017
      • Fresno
        • Expand summary
        • 2018
        • 2019
          • Mention working til club folding
      • Monterey Bay
        • 2021-2024
          • Mention recruiting players from previous coaching & management stints (Quakes pt 2, AZ/PHX, Fresno, Vegas)
          • Outline 2022 season
          • Outline 2023 season
            • Mention win over Earthquakes in US Open Cup
          • Outline 2024 season
    • Add to coaching record infobox for Las Vegas, MBFC
    • Add player stats section for career
      • International stats section? Intl appearances? Intl goals?
    • Request an assessment for B-class when I feel ready, build from the input
      • First review it yourself with the relevant checklist
        • 1. The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations
          • In progress, (currently) only have a few "citation needed" templates
        • 2. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies.
          • In progress, see above section.
        • 3. The article has a defined structure.
          • Should pass, structure is well organized
        • 4. The article is reasonably well-written.
          • In progress, probably will need the most scrutiny
        • 5. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate.
          • In progress. Could use some more statsboxes & updates to current ones
        • 6. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way.
          • Should pass? Don't think it uses insider terms.
    • Future to do:
      • Ipswich
        • Expand summary?
      • Blackpool - find specific loan timing
      • International playing career - expand slightly
  • Season articles
    • Keep 2024 season article up to date
      • Update USOC section
    • Improve/Complete 2023 season article
      • Add info to top infobox (highest attendance, season finish, etc.)
      • Add infobox with player season stats
        • After added with all players from season, edit the season roster to final roster? (so - transfers)?
      • Eventually add stats section, differentiate between final roster and full season's roster
      • Eventually add summary/review section, expand it and background section
    • Improve 2022 season article
      • Add more stats to top infobox
      • Expand background section (like 2009 Seattle Sounders FC season)
        • Mention renovation of Cardinale Stadium requiring team on road for first several matches
      • Add infobox with season player stats
        • After added with all players from season, edit the season roster to final roster (so - transfers)?
      • Eventually add summary/review section, expand it and background section

Mid priority

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  • Improve Walmer Martinez to C quality
    • Add pro career statsbox
    • Find more early life info, see if youth academy citations exist from the time he was in academy [look at current citations]
    • Flesh out career section to create Hartford + MB separate sections
      • Hartford - see what more can be added, mention being sold to MB?
      • MB
        • 2022 - First signing, playing in home area and at his university, scored first goal in home stadium's history
        • 2023 -
        • 2024 - Add suspension mention
    • International
      • Make international appearances box?
      • Add more info on Gold Cup and other runs of matches? [Add context for how El Salvador did while he was playing]
    • Other sources [3][4]
  • Improve Jerry Ayon draft for mainspace (and then page)
    • Create statsbox
    • Find secondary sources
      • MBFC, Quakes 2, Quakes academy, Morelia, Alisal. US (& Mexico?) YNT
        • Find source on US U16
      • Sources: [5][6][7][8]
  • Add stat boxes to current MB players
    • Start with players w/ less pro years, move up from there
      • i.e. Rebollar, Maldonado, Glasser, Martinez
    • Start stat boxes in veteran players pages w/ MB and work your way back
  • Expand Cardinale Stadium article
    • Fort Ord era
    • CSUMB era (pre renovation)
    • MBFC era
      • Include info on hosting recent college woso tournament
      • Mention top attendance, first time MLS played there (preseason), first USOC match
  • Create Anthony Orendain draft (and then page)
    • College, Bay Cities, MBFC2, MBFC
  • Improve 2024 captain Kai Greene article to C quality
  • Improve Ramiro Corrales to B quality
    • 50 best Quakes list
  • Improve Simon Dawkins to B quality
    • 50 best quakes list
    • Mention result of match he coached as interim
    • [9]
  • Improve Jordan Stewart to B class quality
    • Add coaching section with MBFC to infobox
  • Improve Joe Cannon article to B quality
  • Improve Rafael Baca article to B quality
  • C level candidates (in order of nearness to class C)
    • Morey Doner, Adrian Rebollar, Diego Gutierrez
  • Prioritize local players/staff from club history: Ramiro Corrales, Walmer Martinez, Adrian Rebollar
  • Improve Max Glasser draft article
    • Goal is to get it into main-space
  • Improve Antony Siaha page
  • Improve Carlos Herrera article

Low Priority

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  • Add stat boxes to all active player pages
    • Begin with less tenured players and then move back to veteran players
  • Keep foreign NT MB players up to date on List of foreign USL Championship players
  • Improve Ousseni Bouda article to B quality
    • Early life
    • Add citations for honors
    • International career
      • Find citation/source for specific U20 international appearance(s) in 2019
      • International appearances chart? See Ramiro Corrales
  • Improve former captain Hugh Roberts' article to C quality
    • College
    • Baltimore Bohemians 12-13
    • Richmond Kickers 14-16
    • Bethlehem Steel 17
    • Pittsburgh Riverhounds 18
    • Charlotte Independence 19-21
    • Monterey Bay 22-23
    • Charlotte 24-
    • Add Personal Life section (advocacy and other endeavors)
  • Articles that could be improved to C: Seku Conneh, Chris Cortez, Rafael Diaz, Dallas Jaye, Christian Volesky, Arun Basuljevic, James Murphy, 2022 MBFC season
    • Robbie Crawford page
      • Mention trade to be closer to family
    • Seku Conneh
      • Leading scorer for Bethlehem in 2017
    • Jesús Enríquez (talk about reuniting with former teammates who recommended him)

Other Monterey Bay Area tasks

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MBFC Articles by quality

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  •   Max Glasser, Jerry Ayon, Anthony Orendain, Pierce Gallaway, Ryan Dieter, Miguel Guerrero, Michael Gonzalez
  • Template: MBFC, MBFC roster, MBFC managers

Bold articles are current focuses, italicized articles are not actively connected to club and thus lower priority.

Achieved goals

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  • Create this page
  • Create season articles: 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Update all players to be current MBFC players, have team template (before summer 2022 transfers)
  • Created player bios: Antony Siaha, Carlos Herrera
  • Create 2024 season article
  • Created MBFC navbox/template

Future goals

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  • Elevate an article to B status
  • Improve all related articles to C quality
    • Biographies, club, stadium, seasons