Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of North American football nicknames


 * 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.  

The result of the debate was keep. Johnleemk | Talk 15:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

List of North American football nicknames
Unencyclopedic, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. JoaoRicardotalk 04:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Good list, no different than List of U.S. Presidential nicknames. -- JJay 06:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep It is not indiscriminate. It is an almanac style list and they are allowed. ReeseM 06:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as unencyclopedic. This information properly belongs on the individual team articles. Atrian 06:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep this is useful and even fun to browse. -Jcbarr 06:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per JJay --Jaranda wat's sup 06:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's unsourced, unverifiable and has no established standard for inclusion.  We do not need yet another unmaintainable list of every pun, insult and piece of literary wordplay that some random sports journalist invents.  Rossami (talk) 08:54, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Larry Sanger has set up a new project for people who think they are above this sort of fun. Adding citations to every item on a list would be like a parody of academic excess. Choalbaton 09:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep we already have many similar lists, such as List of hockey nicknames. They are not indiscriminate. Mushintalk 18:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Very useful, specially to non-aficionado's of American Football, who could source which team people are talking about from this list. Thor Malmjursson 18:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC) Your two cents
 * Comment: Can these be referenced to avoid any suspicion that they might be neologisms? I also think the team should come before the nickname. -- Krash 19:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * extreme delete, totally POV. Somebody's attempt at being funny and failing miserably.  No citations.  User:Zoe|(talk) 23:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't see the POV. These are (mostly) very commonly used phrases by football fans.  Providing a list, while it does have editorial decisions in it, doesn't condone the nicknames or suggest they are correct, which I would think would be a necessary component of POV.  Anyone can add any nickname they've heard of here.  Notability should probably be a consideration, but I promise you, most of these are well known. -Jcbarr 02:49, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep Many of these nicknames can be verified with a little bit of searching. Zagalejo 23:42, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Indeed, I can start providing citations if that is absolutely necessary. Zagalejo 23:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per Rossami -- Krash 00:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep; seems as legitimate as similar lists, and the citations seem to be coming along nicely. --Maxamegalon2000 03:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unencyclopedic triva Incognito 00:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.