Talk:Lepke Buchalter

message: I reverted the article because, on 8 February, the bulk of the article was replaced by the text:
Note: The previous article posted on this site was copied directly from the book "Murder, Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate" by Burton Turkus and Sid Feder. The book does not give an accurate portrayal of the life of Louis Buchalter and was written and published merely to bolster the political career of Thomas Dewey. In reality, Dewey was the person willing to grant clemency to Buchlater if Buchalter were willing to implicate other high ranking members of the national crime syndicate. Buchalter refused and was executed. If Buchalter were the head of the National Crime Syndicate, as Dewey (and Turkus and Feder) claimed, why did it continue to operate uninterrupted after Buchalter's execution?
A more even-handed and objective biography is forthcoming...
Regardless of whether the above claims of both a copyright violation or non-NPOV are true or not, I believe the above text belongs on this talk page rather than as a replacement for the article itself. Robert Mercer 20:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim of NPOV 

message: Bookhouse was his name at birth? He was a member of the Amboy Dukes I don't think either is correct. What is the source of all this? Does anyone know?--Mantanmoreland 23:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bookhouse? Amboy Dukes

message: No sources whatsoever, dubious statements. It may be 100% factual but it really needs some sources cited in the article. I was going to drop a line to whoever is the principal author of this article to bring this to his or her attention, but that person seems to be lost in the mists of time. --Mantanmoreland 23:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is a mess 

message: I am pretty sure that Bookhouse was his parents last name and when they came to America people at Ellis Island changed it.
Im dont think Buchalter was his real last name becuase it doesn't sound like a jewish name—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.224.192.143 (talk) 02:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bookhouse 

message: Born in 1897 to Eastern European immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Buchalter took the nickname "Lepke" at an early age. The name was an abridgement of the diminutive "Lepkeleh" ("Little Louis" in Yiddish) his mother had called him when he was a boy. After his father dies his mothers health began to fail, the doctors recommended she move to a Arizona to live with relatives to improved her health, Lepke was left as his sisters responsibility.
If you don't know what country his parents immigrated from, it doesn't make sense to say they were from Eastern Europe. There'd no citation that they were immigrants either. There is also no citation that he born in the Lower East Side. The first part of the sentence After his father dies his mothers health began to fail also has a couple incorrect spellings. TomNyj0127 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 03:07, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No source and lack of credibility in these statements 

message: it says that he controlled the streets of NY as a child... did somebody perhaps change a statement that might have said he "ran" the streets, which would have been an alternate meaning, as in running wild as a child? it's actually kind of interesting how my mind came up with that explanation, but anyway... 68.175.101.2 (talk) 19:16, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  run the streets of NY or control the streets of NY? 

message: This explanation seems a bit odd, wouldn't little Louis in Yiddish be something like Bisloy, and isn't Lepke a Yiddish / Eastern European word for butterfly ? Unibond (talk) 20:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lepke name