Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dominic Truscello


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The result was delete. Wizardman 02:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Dominic Truscello

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I deleted an earlier version of this per WP:BLP as an unsourced negative bio, but it's back with a pile of external links, so I'm bringing it here.

We seem to have a lot of these articles that amount to bios of extortioners and rackateers that are only notable because of the "mafia" connection. I'm not sure there are notable per WP:BIO

More worrying is the poor sourcing. Actually no individual allegation here is sourced - and they are certainly negative. External links are not sources, but even if we allow them, most of these boil down to research posted on the websites of one Jerry Capeci, now he may or may not be reliable - but should we reallty have bios with criminal allegations just because he chooses to? Docg 23:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Neutral 206 Yahoo hits ... but two of them were from the New Yorker and New York Times. I'll review them to see if there's enough to salvage this and change my !vote accordingly.  Blueboy96 01:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Neutral - I am unsure of the notability of the subject but, I think the article definitely needs to find its way to a more neutral stance. The author seems to make lots of contributions to the crime stuff and by default I'm inclined to believe that he knows alot more about the subject than I ever will. Not fully familiar with BLP but, if this article is an out and out violation of that policy than it needs to be deleted. Otherwise verification of notability and substantial rewriting is in order. Jasynnash2 (talk) 08:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable and a WP:BLP violation. The only one of the references in the article which looks like it could be promising is the reprint from the Village Voice, but that doesn't even mention Truscello by name. He gets six hits in Google News, including the New York Times and New Yorker articles mentioned above. The NYT article mentions him twice, but these are no more than name checks without even a whole sentence about the subject. I can't see the whole New Yorker article but he doesn't get a mention in the first 800 words. The other articles are also behind pay walls but the summaries displayed by Google clearly show that Truscello is not the main subject of any of them. Phil Bridger (talk) 08:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


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