Talk:Leo Seltzer

Another Leo Seltzer
There's another somewhat notable Leo Seltzer: Leo Seltzer (filmmaker), b. 1916 in Montreal, who was a member of The Workers Film and Photo League. I'm mentioning it here on this discussion page until an article exists about him, at which time we can provide a disambiguation link with Template:For at the top of this article. —mjb (talk) 07:22, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Source of the nickname "Bromo?"
I've read at least two books covering Leo Seltzer's creation of the sport and founding the Transcontinental Roller Derby. I have NEVER seen Leo called "Bromo" anywhere. I know what Bromo Seltzer is/was. This has always struck me as being somewhat odd.

I've asked Jerry Seltzer about it on Facebook (original research, to be sure) and he indicates that nobody called his father that. I wasn't attempting to make a case for its removal from here at the time, just trying probe and see if what already seemed to me to be a bit questionable had any historical basis as his nickname. Obviously ANYONE with the last name Seltzer gets called "Alka" (or in the past "Bromo") at some point in their life. However, for a nickname to appear on Wikipedia, some kind of citeworthy reference to it should be necessary.

After going through the section on the sport's earliest years in Keith Coppage's Roller Derby to RollerJam, I can find no mention of Leo Seltzer being known as "Bromo." Neither in the "Birth" section of Frank Deford's Five Strides on the Banked Track. A Google search on "Leo Bromo Seltzer" only brings up this article as well as several pages which quote the entire section it's used here in verbatim. In short, this article is the only source I can find for the nickname.

Hence I'm adding a citation needed tag there. If someone can find a reliable source for the nickname, kindly add a citation to the article.

TimBRoy (talk) 00:32, 28 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. The same Google search you did, with "Leo Bromo Seltzer" enclosed in quotes, with "-wikipedia" added, makes it much easier to find. It was in Time in 1936 and 1969. Since it doesn't seem to have been used elsewhere, and since Jerry says nobody used it, I've gone ahead and removed it from the article, but left the references in, for future reference. —mjb (talk) 05:22, 28 December 2010 (UTC)