Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people by nickname


 * 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 was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 17:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

List of people by nickname

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All are nicknames with 'the'. No way all nicknames are included.  Kayau  Don't be too CNN  I'LL DO MY JOB   uprising! uprising! 08:54, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 14:32, 15 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete on the basis of UTTER IMPRACTICALLY. This list could potentially contain the nicknames of everyone who appears on Wikipedia and could be hundreds of pages long.  The only possible justification for this is grounded in the idea of "cross indexing" as was done in print publications.  "Search" functions make this way of thinking obsolete. --Griseum (talk) 15:37, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmanageable list with ill-defined parameters. (A list of people with a frog and a Hutt on it?) As noted above, completeness is also unlikely to be achieved. —C.Fred (talk) 15:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Impractical and non-encyclopedic, and the article never determines what defines a nickname. (Is "Pliny the Elder" really a nickname?). Warrah (talk) 18:14, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Definite delete - At its best it would be an index of the entire BLP class of articles. That obviously won't happen, or even be advisable. Another example of what everyone above is saying. Completely unmanageable list for the sake of being a list. Shadowjams (talk) 18:27, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Impractical and ill-defined parameters &mdash; this list could go on forever (um, they left out Joe the Plumber). Also violation of Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. I suggest merging the monarchs into List of monarchs by nickname, as proposed on the article tag, and deleting the rest. Yoninah (talk) 21:10, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Violates WP:NOT. However, a merger with a couple other lists is somewhat feasible. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 22:49, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete aside from general silliness (Jabba the Hutt isn't a person and neither is that a nickname), this clearly falls afoul of Wikipedia NOT being a collection of random information. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  03:16, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Wp:Bollocks EeepEeep (talk) 08:29, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:53, 18 February 2010 (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.