Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Zullo
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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 06:40, 3 March 2013 (UTC).
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Frank Zullo[edit]
- ... that at 33, Frank Zullo was the youngest person to be elected mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut?
Created by Gregbard (talk). Self nominated at 02:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC).
Length, date, and hook check out. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 05:15, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Right now, the sources cited in the article don't even suffice to show the subject's notability. None of them appear to be independent of the article's subject.--Carabinieri (talk) 22:12, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
- You don't think being elected mayor of a city of over 70,000 people alone qualifies as notable, much less being the youngest ever to do so? The lawyers and avvo websites are, in fact, independent. Seeing the website of the Water District with his biography because he is a board member as not independent at least a little questionable. I will look for other sources, but I think these should suffice. Greg Bard (talk) 22:22, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
- Articles should be based primarily on independent sources. Someone's employee website is not an independent source. It's unclear who posted the information on the lawyers and avvo websites. I assumed the law firm did.--Carabinieri (talk) 22:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
- I have added a reference to the Norwalk Hour, the local newspaper which states in the first sentence that he was the youngest mayor. [1] Greg Bard (talk) 00:35, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Somebody who has been elected mayor of a city of 70,000 does most certainly meet notability criteria merely by having been elected. That's not to say that the sources shouldn't be better, but I'm merely commenting on the notability aspect queried above. Schwede66 07:02, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- I added a couple more refs just in case. Greg Bard (talk) 07:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- What I was trying to say wasn't that I doubt the guy's notability. I do, however, think that articles should be primarily based on independent sources. On WT:DYK someone recently said that sources affiliated with the subject "can be used to provide the drywall, but the frame of an article has to come from unaffiliated/secondary sources". I thought that was very well-put. In that respect, I still think this article is iffy, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and reinstate the original .--Carabinieri (talk) 04:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- What I was trying to say wasn't that I doubt the guy's notability. I do, however, think that articles should be primarily based on independent sources. On WT:DYK someone recently said that sources affiliated with the subject "can be used to provide the drywall, but the frame of an article has to come from unaffiliated/secondary sources". I thought that was very well-put. In that respect, I still think this article is iffy, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and reinstate the original
- I added a couple more refs just in case. Greg Bard (talk) 07:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Somebody who has been elected mayor of a city of 70,000 does most certainly meet notability criteria merely by having been elected. That's not to say that the sources shouldn't be better, but I'm merely commenting on the notability aspect queried above. Schwede66 07:02, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- I have added a reference to the Norwalk Hour, the local newspaper which states in the first sentence that he was the youngest mayor. [1] Greg Bard (talk) 00:35, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Articles should be based primarily on independent sources. Someone's employee website is not an independent source. It's unclear who posted the information on the lawyers and avvo websites. I assumed the law firm did.--Carabinieri (talk) 22:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
- You don't think being elected mayor of a city of over 70,000 people alone qualifies as notable, much less being the youngest ever to do so? The lawyers and avvo websites are, in fact, independent. Seeing the website of the Water District with his biography because he is a board member as not independent at least a little questionable. I will look for other sources, but I think these should suffice. Greg Bard (talk) 22:22, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
