During my years coordinating sports statistics for a data-gathering company, I sometimes had to correct data that coaches and their scorekeepers entered. Once, I noticed that whoever entered a football team's roster had put in nicknames instead of real first names for certain players. I tracked down the real first names and deleted the nicknames. This may have disappointed some of the players, but it would have looked downright silly to have statistics appearing online and in newspapers under the names "Flash," "Shazam," and "Sugar Bear."
I think I made the right call.
