Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of football (soccer) players by nickname
About this type of "nickname list" article in general (see this AfD's talk page):  1) There are so many fake entries in them generally that it is unbelievable (even if that is not the case with ''this'' list right now, it will be eventually, since no one can |own an article, and it will inevitably be edited by people with silly (or worse) notions. 2) Practically nothing is sourced in them. 3) All of the arguments the nominator summarizes are accurate, as are those of many other commentators here (unencyclopedic, trivia, etc.). 4) Many (most?) of the "nicknames" in these lists are not nicknames at all (i.e. monickers used by the person or ''commonly'' applied to the person), but rather are random journalists' one-off turns of phrase that an editor here or and editor there personally decided was a "nickname" (). 5. '''Nothing valid and of encyclopedic value will be lost''', since the ''verifiable'' nicknames can/should be added to the infoboxes (or elsewhere, if no infobox) of the articles to whom they apply; and if the person is not notable enough for an article they aren't really notable enough to be in a list article either. If someone out there on the Net wants to find out the real name of "Slasher" Cockburn, some minor-league sports figure that would fail  (or vice versa, looking for so-and-so's nick), that is what Google is for.  OT|Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. 6. Articles like this are ''absolute magnets'' for subtle (and sometimes blatant) vandalism. I know this from direct experience with List of snooker player nicknames. It's hard enough to police the infoboxes of notable players, but keeping clever |personal attacks on |living subjects out of a list like this is simply impossible
— User:SMcCandlish, 13:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:OWN||WP:OR||WP:N||WP:NOT||WP:ATT||WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Ownership of content)