Talk:D. C. Stephenson

message: Curtis fingered George V. "Cap" Coffin, and attorney Robert I. Marsh, charging them with conspiring to bribe former Governor Warren McCray. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.241.41.98 (talk) 22:35, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
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message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 06:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: Something needs to be included about his move to Indianapolis - Where D.C. Stephenson met the woman he murdered and locked her in his carriage home. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kcflood (talk • contribs) 
:Sure. —SlamDiego←T 08:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Indianapolis? 

message: The 'Stephenson Trial' link is dead. —Rosa Lichtenstein (talk) 16:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. —SlamDiego←T 17:44, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Link 

message: he was an idiot  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.252.59.198 (talk) 00:15, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  His life 

message: I added a section in the Ohio history about the Klan and Stephenson. However the history section in Ohio is white washed, they might remove it because they don't want the KKK in their history section in an attempt to make the article bias. 
--Margrave1206 (talk) 23:57, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ohio history and the KKK 

message: So Stephenson said in a speech that "the President of the United States kept me unduly long counseling on matters of state."  Was there any truth to this?  Had he actually met with Harding?  Or was he just full of shit? john k (talk) 16:18, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The President of the United States kept me unduly long... 

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message: to call Stephenson a "politician?"  Given that he never, as far as I can tell, held public office.  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  IS it really accurate 

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message: Was he actually a socialist? There's nothing about that in the article, and the KKK has historically been unfriendly towards socialists and the labor movement.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.78.69.14 (talk) 21:22, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: There is plenty of sources for this, I'll add one. Carptrash (talk) 23:06, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Put another way if you are looking for consistent, or rational or logical thinking from the Klan and its adherents you are likely to be frequently disappointed. Carptrash (talk) 23:14, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Socialist? 

message: I notice that in July 2016 I posted that calling him a "politician" is odd because he never seems to have held elected office. There has been some back-and-forthing about this section, I must admit that I rather like " visionary, respectable citizen and leader" since that gives us some insight into what particularly "respectable citizen and leader" means in America.  However that was not my edit and I think that "businessman" "KKK leader" and "criminal" pretty much covers what got him into wikipedia. But let's discuss it here rather than doing a revert thing such as is happening. Carptrash (talk) 15:16, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The lede is still weak, and more than a little POV. "David Curtiss "Steve" Stephenson (August 21, 1891 – June 28, 1966) was a convicted murderer and rapist, who in 1923 was appointed Grand Dragon of the branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana and head of Klan recruiting for seven other states..." is not, strictly speaking, correct. I'm no fan of the Klan and have no sympathy for this individual, but he has a WP entry because he was Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan, not because he was a convicted criminal. The way the lede puts it now places illogical emphasis on the second point rather than the first; they should be reversed. Laodah 23:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I cut this (" convicted murderer and rapist,") out of the lede and put something else in.  Also that Populist Party stuff has to go since it disbanded when he was 5 or so, Carptrash (talk) 23:46, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I also cut this out (" and was active in the Populist Party") because the Populist Party folded when he was 5 and it is not mentioned in the source given.  Why do people put in stuff like that? Carptrash (talk) 23:49, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lede 

message: Hello, while trawling through, this article states that he had four spouses, however it seems to omit any details about end of his 4th. As well as any details on his first 2 aside from the fact he abandoned both. Any additional information would be nice to see, especially on their position and relation to him. As well as generally more in the 'Later Years' section. Apologies that I've not added anything myself. This subject is unfortunately(as perhaps my name suggests) not my forté.
 Regards 747-200B (talk) 19:50, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spouses