The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Clarification: another, important, point is that these lists (such as
List of sportspeople by nickname) will never be extensive. It's not the same as, say, a list of players who have scored 50+ goals in the Premier League. If we were to assume that only 1% of players on Wikipedia have nicknames, we are still dealing with thousands on people. It would be impossible to have a full comprehensive list.
Nehme1499 (
talk)
17:24, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete – Trivia, quite likely OR, possibly incomplete and would probably prove dificult to maintain accurately and with verification.
Eagleash (
talk)
15:21, 22 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's silly to only delete the footballers, and nicknames in sport are a notable topic. Manageability is still a concern.
pburka (
talk)
04:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep The nomination is not policy-based. It's mostly
WP:NOTNEEDED and
WP:ITSCRUFT which are arguments to avoid. The reference to
WP:OR is a
WP:VAGUEWAVE without any specifics or evidence. The page in question, on the other hand, has 248 citations and the sources demonstrate that the topic passes
WP:LISTN. And it is easy to find more quality sources which support the topic, such as Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space and The Linguistics of Football which demonstrate that the topic is not just notable in popular works but is also the subject of academic study. So, the page is high quality while the nomination is not.
Andrew🐉(
talk)
19:28, 22 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep per Andrew. Additional comment: the nominator and creator (and almost sole contributor, to a page that clearly took a bit of time to put together) appear to be the same person? Maybe I've missed something?
Crowsus (
talk)
08:29, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete as per nom's rationale. Does not appear to meet
WP:LISTN. And
Joseph2302 also appears to be correct, on the surface this could simply have been G7'd. However, since it appears that the content was split from another article, an AfD might be more appropriate.
Onel5969TT me13:01, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
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edit conflict) (Pburka has basically said the same above just before I added this) Comment: what makes this article different from the one it was split from,
List of sportspeople by nickname? Since the issue is the merit of the topic rather than the quality of the content, surely the same decision should apply to both? And in that vein, there may be more interested editors who would contribute to a deletion discussion on that Sportspeople article?
Crowsus (
talk)
13:27, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
I would delete
List of sportspeople by nickname, for the same reasoning. Also, these lists will never be extensive. It's not like, say, a list of players who have scored 30+ goals for X team. There are possibly hundreds of thousands footballers on Wikipedia. If even only 1% of those have some sort of a nickname, we would have a list of thousands players.
Nehme1499 (
talk)
13:39, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
That's a good point, for example it seems to be a bit Italy-centric having just glanced over it, so many more that theoretically could be added. We might have to put in a minimum requirement, "must have been capped at full international level to get a nickname shout". Or "nickname has not been used in a fully professional league".
Crowsus (
talk)
16:42, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
KEEP There are references for all of the information provided. The news media does comment on this information, and I'm sure if its not obvious, they explain how they got that nickname.
DreamFocus17:21, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Clarification: another, important, point is that these lists (such as
List of sportspeople by nickname) will never be extensive. It's not the same as, say, a list of players who have scored 50+ goals in the Premier League. If we were to assume that only 1% of players on Wikipedia have nicknames, we are still dealing with thousands on people. It would be impossible to have a full comprehensive list.
Nehme1499 (
talk)
17:24, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete – Trivia, quite likely OR, possibly incomplete and would probably prove dificult to maintain accurately and with verification.
Eagleash (
talk)
15:21, 22 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's silly to only delete the footballers, and nicknames in sport are a notable topic. Manageability is still a concern.
pburka (
talk)
04:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep The nomination is not policy-based. It's mostly
WP:NOTNEEDED and
WP:ITSCRUFT which are arguments to avoid. The reference to
WP:OR is a
WP:VAGUEWAVE without any specifics or evidence. The page in question, on the other hand, has 248 citations and the sources demonstrate that the topic passes
WP:LISTN. And it is easy to find more quality sources which support the topic, such as Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space and The Linguistics of Football which demonstrate that the topic is not just notable in popular works but is also the subject of academic study. So, the page is high quality while the nomination is not.
Andrew🐉(
talk)
19:28, 22 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep per Andrew. Additional comment: the nominator and creator (and almost sole contributor, to a page that clearly took a bit of time to put together) appear to be the same person? Maybe I've missed something?
Crowsus (
talk)
08:29, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete as per nom's rationale. Does not appear to meet
WP:LISTN. And
Joseph2302 also appears to be correct, on the surface this could simply have been G7'd. However, since it appears that the content was split from another article, an AfD might be more appropriate.
Onel5969TT me13:01, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
(
edit conflict) (Pburka has basically said the same above just before I added this) Comment: what makes this article different from the one it was split from,
List of sportspeople by nickname? Since the issue is the merit of the topic rather than the quality of the content, surely the same decision should apply to both? And in that vein, there may be more interested editors who would contribute to a deletion discussion on that Sportspeople article?
Crowsus (
talk)
13:27, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
I would delete
List of sportspeople by nickname, for the same reasoning. Also, these lists will never be extensive. It's not like, say, a list of players who have scored 30+ goals for X team. There are possibly hundreds of thousands footballers on Wikipedia. If even only 1% of those have some sort of a nickname, we would have a list of thousands players.
Nehme1499 (
talk)
13:39, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
That's a good point, for example it seems to be a bit Italy-centric having just glanced over it, so many more that theoretically could be added. We might have to put in a minimum requirement, "must have been capped at full international level to get a nickname shout". Or "nickname has not been used in a fully professional league".
Crowsus (
talk)
16:42, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
KEEP There are references for all of the information provided. The news media does comment on this information, and I'm sure if its not obvious, they explain how they got that nickname.
DreamFocus17:21, 23 August 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.