Talk:Louis N. Scarcella

RS saying he's dead
We need sources. Non-RS say he killed himself. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:47, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

I changed "was" to "is". No RS saying he's dead. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:57, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * He was still alive for another 3 overturned convictions in July 2022, according to the NY Times. His NYPD brother killed himself in 2014, so maybe that's where the mistaken report came from. —173.68.139.31 (talk) 20:31, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Date of birth?
Date of birth is needed.--109.252.100.73 (talk) 04:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Several databases like MyLife.com say 1951, but we should wait for a better source. For now, I'll put 1951/1952, based on a newspaper publishing his age as 66 in May 2018 . —173.68.139.31 (talk) 12:09, 23 February 2022 (UTC)


 * The New York Times published his age as 72 in November 2023, so 1952 could not have been his birth year. From basic arithmetic, these two newspaper refs imply that his birthdate was in 1951, between May and November, consistent with the MyLife.com database. I just updated the article with an explanatory note. —173.56.111.206 (talk) 11:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

NYPost references seem OK
Since 2018, several of this article's references have been to the New York Post. According to WP:NYPOST and, Wikipedia now considers the newspaper "generally unreliable, especially with regard to politics". For this article, however, our NYPost refs are mostly for the nuts-and-bolts of Brooklyn court proceedings that are consistent with the other refs, and our particular NYPost refs show no sign of the pro-police slant for which the newspaper is often criticized. I think it helps the credibility of our article that it's sourced to all three of NYC's major dailies, not just the two "liberal" ones. NYPost.com also allows unlimited viewing of its ref links without registration, unlike NYTimes.com or NYDailyNews.com. For all these reasons, I hope it's OK to keep the NYPost refs unless there are specific challenges to their accuracy. —173.68.139.31 (talk) 18:17, 4 April 2022 (UTC)