Talk:Rossi Morreale

Notability

Most of the shows he's hosted were small-potatoes that had no real presence. A search for his name without Temptation turned up literally nothing of substance. Calling on TV experts @Sammi Brie:, @Cunard:, et al. to see if they can find something I missed. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:12, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi TenPoundHammer (talk · contribs). Here are some sources about Rossi Morreale:

1. Hoover, John E. (1998-10-16). "Hogs' Morreale is making impact". Tulsa World. Archived from the original on 2023-07-23. Retrieved 2023-07-23.

   The article notes: "He doesn't even have a scholarship, but Arkansas' Rossi Morreale is making contributions no one else has in recent years: he's catching punts and making an impact on the special teams. Morreale, a 5-11, 170-pound sophomore walk-on from Fort Smith (Southside), Ark., has emerged, almost by default, as a Razorback fan-favorite. He has the two things that make a special-teams player special: good hands and an irrepressible desire to play. ... Morreale had displayed an innate ability to catch the football since he arrived at Arkansas as a transfer from Carson Newman (Tenn.). He led the state in interceptions (nine) during his senior year at Southside, and he also caught 35 passes for 700 yards."

2. Grossman, Ben (2007-01-29). "Post-NATPE Moves: Twentieth taps host for Temptation". Broadcasting & Cable. Vol. 137, no. 5. p. 13. ProQuest 225323633.

   The article notes: "Twentieth Television has named Rossi Morreale to host Temptation, a syndicated game show that will roll out in the fall of 2007. Morreale's résumé includes hosting a weekend edition of entertainment newsmagazine Extra. A former football player for the University of Arkansas, he has also done hosting work for such networks as TBS, Spike TV, G4 and ESPN. With daytime a female-friendly world, the fact he was named to People magazine's 50 Sexiest Men Alive list will help. The title of the new show shouldn't be tough for Morreale to remember. In 2001, he was a cast member of the second season of Fox's reality series Temptation Island."

3. "Rossi Morreale". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2023-07-23. Retrieved 2023-07-23.

   The article notes: "Rossi Morreale worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Morreale worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Bring It On Again" (2004), "Instant Beauty Pageant" (Esquire Network, 2006-09) and "Next Action Star" (NBC, 2003-04)."

4. "Rossi Morreale". People. Vol. 60, no. 22. 2003-12-01. p. 151. EBSCOhost 11615481.

   The article notes: "Junkyard Mega Wars, TLC. ... Check out the show's exuberant host. To surround himself with girls at his Arkansas high school, "I was vice president of the Future Homemakers of America," declares Morreale, 26, who learned to sew and still does. ... He also beat out 60,000 contestants for a spot as a tempter on Temptation Island 2."

5. Rizzo, Monica (2010-08-09). "'Dating in the Dark' Host Gets Married: TV personality Rossi Morreale and country singer Kacey Coppola tie the knot in Antigua". People. Archived from the original on 2023-07-23. Retrieved 2023-07-23.

   The article notes: "Morreale married country singer Kacey Coppola Saturday on the island of Antigua in the Caribbean. ... The couple met in 2008 on the set of the Country Music Television show Can You Duet. Rossi hosted the show and Coppola and her sister, Kate, competed. ... Morreale’s show, Dating in the Dark, puts three guys and three women into a house together, but they don’t meet until they’re introduced in a pitch-dark room."

Cunard (talk) 00:40, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

@Donaldd23: you and I have crossed paths on TV articles before, so I'm curious as to what you think of Cunard's sources here. My analysis is:

1. Localized pre-fame coverage with no bearing on his notability.

2. About Temptation and not Morreale himself.

3. A directory listing from Rotten Tomatoes. While Rotten Tomatoes is considered reliable for its review aggregation, this is just a pre-generated template the likes of which they have for searching any actor by name.

4. A blurb about Junkyard Mega Wars which is not explicitly about Morreale himself (and this show's article is itself a redirect to another show)

5. This seems to be the only one with any real substance.

Among my own searching, I was notable to find much either:

• An encyclopedia entry on Temptation and a couple others like it
• A one-sentence mention in the context of Can You Duet (which I'm still not convinced is a notable show, either)

Beyond the first couple GBooks hits, everything else was a false positive. Likewise on GNews, which gave nothing after the People blurb about him marrying.

Among all the hits on Newspapers.com, all I could find were variants of "Rossi Morreale is hosting (name of show)", and even most of those are just re-re-re-re-reprints of a press release on Temptation. Most of his other hosting gigs don't have articles or were very short-lived shows. He has just enough on his filmography that I don't feel a redirect to Temptation is warranted, but I still remain unconvinced he's notable. What say you? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:35, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I would tend to agree that second, third, and fourth are not at all canidates for supporting notability. Nor are the 2 that you found in your search. The fifth one is definitly support for notability, and the first one, even though it is local coverage, is semi-supportive...which could help support notability if others agree. But it's a stretch for me. Not sure about a redirect...but it seems better than a deletion because if someone can find more to support notability then they could revert the redirect and add to the article. I did not find anything to support notability, albeit I did not do a lengthy BEFORE. Not sure any of this helps. DonaldD23 talk to me 20:10, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I personally think a redirect is WP:UNDUE given he's worked on multiple shows, minimally notable as they may be. I don't think there's a suitable WP:ATD solution here, as the subject is clearly not notable. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:47, 2 March 2024 (UTC)