Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Corrao


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete per WP:BLP. Besides David Dinkins, there are several other unsourced statements in this article about living people. If someone wants to source this article I will be glad to userfy or incubate it. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:28, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Joseph Corrao

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No sourcing whatsoever, and contains defamatory claims about living individuals and corporations. ScottyBerg (talk) 15:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - I believe that undoubtedly good sources do exist to corroborate this. This so-called "crime family" has been written on and reported on extensively, and in great depth. Also, almost all of the people who were directly associated with the Gambino's during the events leading up to John Gotti's arrest have their own pages.  And since this isn't a BLP, I think it should just be tagged for needing references...and perhaps trimmed down on some of the more critical aspects until the refs are provided.  This could be a really interesting and highly content-debated article. The Eskimo (talk) 15:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Not a BLP, but there are references to living people supposedly linked to him and to two cafes and a fuel company he supposedly part-owned, all with zero sourcing. ScottyBerg (talk) 23:32, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:58, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Fix it or delete it - One can say of a dead person that they exhumed the body of Chester A. Arthur and used it as a coffee table or collected the heads of housecats in pickle jars, but if one makes an assertion about a living person being a member of an organized crime family, one had damned well better have that documented. All potentially defamatory material about living people needs to be footnoted or removed pronto, or this article should be deleted. —Carrite, Sept. 29, 2010.
 * Keep Just which living people are they about whom negative information is given. Dinkins is mentioned, but not negatively, & there should be a newspaper source for his involvement in canceling the city contract with him  In any case, the basic material in the article is clearly about other deceased individuals, so if there is such material about living people and it cannot be sourced, it can be removed without needing to delete the article..    DGG ( talk ) 07:21, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:11, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete unless sourced by the end of this AfD, per WP:V. Unsourced contested articles must be deleted.  Sandstein   06:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.