User:ABBrooks10/Pete Frates (new article)/Bibliography

Statement of Notability
Peter Frates easily fulfills the Wikipedia notability requirements. After doing just a few hours of research for this project, I was able to compile 26 sources in my annotated bibliography related to Pete Frates, ALS, and the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Wikipedia’s Notability page for people states that “people are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.”  There are countless such sources on the internet for Pete Frates, but just in my bibliography alone there is one article from the Boston Herald, one from NPR, and several from the Boston Globe that all focus on Pete Frates, his activist work, and his legacy.

In addition to there being numerous independent, reliable secondary sources about Frates, he has received several awards and honors (which Wikipedia considers as additional criteria for notability). First, former Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker signed a bill into law making the first week of August “Ice Bucket Challenge Week” in honor of Frates (which is detailed in a boston.com article in my bibliography). Also, Pete Frates has his own section in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and there is an article about him and his work on the hall of fame’s website (which is also linked in my bibliography). Additionally, Frates has been the recipient of various awards, including the Stephen Heywood Patients Today Leadership Award and the Sports Illustrated Inspiration of the Year award. Due to all this (and more), Pete Frates is a notable figure deserving of his own Wikipedia page.