Talk:soccer player

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)

football player (barring sense 3)
SoP. ·~  dictátor · mundꟾ  17:02, 13 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep per WT:TENNIS, which was created specifically for terms like this. Binarystep (talk) 06:56, 14 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep per WT:TENNIS, also there should really be a translation target somewhere for “American football player”. AG202 (talk) 15:29, 14 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep, synonym of in both cases. DonnanZ (talk) 19:55, 16 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Kept both Dunderdool (talk) 08:34, 31 July 2022 (UTC)