Talk:basketball player

Requests for deletion - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of August 2008. 06:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

soccer player, baseball player, basketball player, tennis player

SoP. If not, we would expect to have one of these entries for every sport, which is sheer insanity. P.S. I realise they may translate to single words in other languages, but that doesn't force the existence of English entries; the translations from those other languages need only be broken into multiple links. Equinox ◑ 22:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Basketball player and tennis player have previously passed RFD, on the basis that in common use they refer specifically to a professional player of the sport. The same reasoning would presumably apply to soccer player and baseball player. I am slightly less convinced of this reasoning than I was the last time around, but still don't see any pressing need to delete; the set of entries to which this argument applies is quite small. -- Visviva 04:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. As Visviva has noted, we've been through this discussion twice before (at least).  Without new reasoning or a change in policy, there is no need to go through this discussion again. --EncycloPetey 16:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per EP.—msh210 ℠  16:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per EP. Perhaps we could file a copy of the last discussion on the talk pages of the three or four most common entries? -- A LGRIF  talk  17:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Please do (or preferably a link, to avoid partial duplication), or else this will come up again and again. I had no idea that a person who plays basketball non-professionally wouldn't count as a basketball player (and I think that's ridiculous and wrong, but I will yield to consensus). Equinox ◑ 00:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep all. Master P plays basketball, but failed to become a basketball player. bd2412 T 20:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

All kept. 63.95.64.254 03:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Still think this should be deleted. The phrase "keen basketball player" (always an amateur) proves that a "basketball player" NEED NOT be a professional. Equinox ◑ 23:31, 24 October 2013 (UTC)