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Agree, but how? I suggest the first thing to do is filter out some of the more trivial nicknames like "Boony", "Warney" etc etc. Perhaps a page policy of one nickname per person would help. In-line web references to media articles will suffice as references. Alternatively, player articles should
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Pleased to see someone citing references, but I feel this entry and a few others do not pass muster. One reference in one article doesn't a nickname make. Look at it this way - if you don't hear a keeper shouting something like "Come on Guy!" or "Come on Beefy", for Botham or "Come on Pigeon!" for
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African family nicknames should qualify here - Fanie, Boata and Hansie spring to mind, but I've left Fanie De Villiers in as a citation being needed, as I've heard 'Fast Fanie' suggested somewhere. I've removed Boata Dippenaar as I could find no source for those
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If you feel strongly enough to put a nickname in this list, then please add a reference point. Looking at the Ds, I found most of them in
Cricinfo pages, a couple of surpise omissions from the cricinfo article (Kapil Dev and Allan Donald) in one further search each. It's not hard.
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1. If you want to make an entry, cite an article that actually says that the player has gained the nickname of "X". 2. A solitary reference to a "name" by a newspaper ("Mo-Yo"; Mr "Infredible";etc) are not nicknames as no-one calls the person concerned by it to their face.
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This list is comprehensive now with hundreds of players listed with nicknames. Nevertheless, it seems to trivial to currently be in an encyclopedia. I think it is time to provide an explanation from how the various nicknames originated from.
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In that case, you might want to strike Zin Harris (i.e., Peter Zinzan Harris) from the list. I wasn't too sure about those - I tossed up whether Fanie de
Villiers (Stephanus, IIRC) and Hansie Cronje should be there for the same reason.
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Did anybody catch any nicknames (especially if you are an Aussie) of the recent twenty20 (if you saw the match on TV or at the Gabba). The only one not already on the list that I managed to get was James Hopes' catfish.
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