Talk:Athletic nickname
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[edit] athletic nickname versus athletic moniker
When proposing this article, there was discussion whether the widely-accepted term for this concept was "athletic nickname" or "athletic moniker". It was decided that while both were in wide use, athletic nickname appears to be somewhat more popular. For example, perform your own investigation in Google searching first for the term "athletic nickname" then in a separate search "athletic moniker". To reflect this popular preference but also this wide usage of two different terms, athletic nickname is the title of this article with athletic moniker both redirecting to this article as well as appearing periodically in this article's text as an interchangable term. —Optikos 13:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Examples
When authoring the initial version of this article, I intentionally did not provide a single real-world example, because once one example appears, then I suspect that every alumnus of every school will want to see their school's athletic moniker appear as well, especially among arch-rivals. If we want to have a separate article that serves as a compendium list of all athletic nicknames, then a separate article such as "List of athletic nicknames" is my recommendation, rather than polluting this explanatory article with large amounts of listed data. —Optikos 13:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] United States of America
Can the phrase:
- ...of a university or college within the United States of America...
be modified to show that it is not used on the USA alone? --Howard the Duck 13:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
