Draft talk:Francesco Ferramosca

Offline sources

Acferrad, unfortunately I'm not sure I see material in the provided offline sources that would clearly establish notability. It's possible that I missed something due to the extremely cramped text in some of the provided scans, so I'm going to provide my assessments of these sources, and you can let me know if you think I missed something:

• March 31st 1917 Stage and Cinema [1] – I see that this page has a photo of the subject that is captioned "The Well-Known Violinist", but I don't see any other information about Ferramosca on the page.
• 1912 Leven Advertiser [2] – There appears to be a brief mention of "Signor Ferramosca's Orchestra" in a section about a wedding, but no significant coverage of Ferramosca (or his orchestra, for that matter). Wedding reports are an example of routine coverage, so even if this section did have more coverage of Ferramosca, it likely would not contribute much towards meeting WP:GNG.
• May 12, 1917 Stage and Cinema [3] – This appears to be a promotional photo of Ferramosca and fellow musicians, which is captioned with an announcement of an upcoming concert. This is not independent or significant coverage.
• June 21, 1924 South African Pictorial [4], there is a picture of Ferramosca, captioned with an announcement for an upcoming concert, but I don't see any significant coverage. Moreover, I don't see anything in this citation that would support the claim that it's attached to in the article, that The orchestra also played frequently at The Lounge, Madeleine's and Gloria. By 1920 Francesco was recognized as the finest violinist in the country.

All told, I think that these sources suffer from similar issues to the sources that I was able to access: they establish that the subject existed, but they don't have any significant secondary coverage as far as I can tell. As such, using these sources to attempt to write an article would be a form of original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Examples of significant coverage that would contribute toward notability would be reviews of Ferramosca's concerts by professional critics, or independent biographical accounts written in classical music publications. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Rosguill I have only sent you the references I mentioned in the Wikipedia Page, which shows his fame as a leader of a popular orchestra (most popular in early Johannesburg). Johannesburg was discovered on gold in 1886, and became a boom town. Music was part of this growth from a mining town to the most prosperous city in Africa, and Francesco Ferramosca one of the most famous music leaders during this time. You have no way of knowing this, but I have provided some documented proof, which I had hoped would be sufficient. Note that there were not many recorders of information in South Africa at this time, not like in the US or UK. But I have countless other articles and references if you would like to view, but I did not think to add too much into the Wikipedia summary. But if this is what you want to view to allay your skepticism, I will be happy to provide. Acferrad (talk) 22:53, 12 May 2020 (UTC)