Consider renaming repo to `us-nicknames` about nicknames

[NickCrews]

Sweet thanks! I vote no on creating a new repo, Google is smart and they'll figure it out that they are the same.

[carltonnorthern]

I think this sounds like a reasonable idea. Can anyone think of a reason not to rename it?

[NickCrews]

Tagging everyone who's contributed in the last 2 years, in case anyone wants to weigh in. Feel free to ignore, and sorry for the spam!

@kenlewis @f0rk @c0bra @gpilgrim2670 @cwag03 @CalvinWu4 @louking @danielleevandenbosch @ITernovtsiy @lockster99

[f0rk]

👍🏻 from me

[KenKodz]

I think "nicknames" would be better as it's not just US names. They are English-speaking country names.

My only concern about changing the name would be the Google search results for years of it being the current name. That's how I found this great repo. If you rename it, I suggest creating a new repo with the old name that just has a readme that points to the new one.

Just my two cents.

[mdahlman]

I'm with @kenlewis: be bold and go for "nicknames" with the idea that this covers all English language nicknames.

Conceivably at the data level one could add files like names-uk.csv someday if they ever wanted to differentiate nicknames that were only in common use somewhere else. But I speculate this would be more trouble than it's worth for most folks.

Likewise, keeping or re-creating "nickname-and-diminutive-names-lookup" just for search purposes is a great idea.

[louking]

Not a contributor, but here's a user's perspective. My use case is to find nicknames in a pool of people whose nationality isn't known. I think the database could potentially support non-English names/nicknames. So why limit it via the repo name?

I.e., I support use of 'nicknames' if that's not already used.

Uh, oops -- looks like 'us-nicknames' has already been published: https://pypi.org/project/us-nicknames/

[NickCrews]

OK, removing the us- prefix sounds fine to me. I was hesitant to claim the name of just nicknames on PyPI, that seemed like such a desirable and general name that I wanted to leave it available. Think I'm being silly there, should we just claim it?

Or should we be more precise, and mention that this is a hand-curated list? I think this might differentiate us from other projects. Could do

• nickname-list
• nickname-roundup
• nickname-compendium
• nickname-anthology

I think nicknames or nickname-roundup (🤠 lol) are my top choices.

Uh, oops -- looks like 'us-nicknames' has already been published: https://pypi.org/project/us-nicknames/

Not a big deal the PyPI package is published already, it's version 0.1.0 so we can remove it. Probably should do it pretty soon though.

[louking]

If I had a vote (I don't think I do), I would name it simply "nicknames" or "nickname-lookup". Sorry I don't like "-roundup" as I guess I don't know what it means in this context.

[carltonnorthern]

Sounds like everyone is good with nicknames. Sounds good to me. Should we go ahead and make the name change before we update the pipeline with Pypi API token @NickCrews ?

[carltonnorthern]

Ok, I made the change and it looks like the links automatically forward from the old repo to the new repo. Doing a search on Google for nicknames github and clicking on the old repo result automatically forwards to the new repo. If that's the case, I think creating a repo with the old name that points to the new repo may actually hurt us more than help us. Thoughts?