Talk:Albert Johnson (criminal)

message: I was watching an interview of Sgt H.F. Hersey on the Biography Channel.
He was the person wounded by Albert Johnson during his last battle.
He was interviewed at age 98. 
He stated that Albert Johnson was carrying multiple firearms including a sawed-off shotgun and his total gear weighed close to 150lbs! This makes the story of his flight even more amazing.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.159.198.74 (talk) 21:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bio

message: The author makes the allegation twice that the search warrant for Johnson's cabin was illegal. Is there any evidence for this and if so what is it? It sounds like an opinion and not a fact. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by--64.233.226.119 19:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search Warrant 

message: I have assessed this as Start Class, as it contains more detail and organization than would be expected of a Stub, and of low importance as I do not feel that many people outside of Canada would be familiar with the subject of this article. Cheers, CP 15:53, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: See: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard for the mess created by User:The-G-Unit-Boss. Handicapper (talk) 14:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect games

message: My compliments to the several recent editors whose work has substantially expanded and improved this article.
However, in the process of so doing, a number of fundamental Wikipedia principles have been violated, especially WP:NPOV, WP:ADVERT, WP:OR, and various grammatical rules and stylistic conventions.
My edits to day are designed to accomplish the following:
a) Correct misused semicolons and replace contractions, which are not acceptable in formal or encyclopedic style.
b) Conflate the "Notes" section with "In Popular Culture" since they were covering the same ground. All entries in both sections have been included.
c) Break up the monolithic section "Manhunt" into logical and more readable paragraphs.
d) Make the article internally consistent. The end of "Manhunt" states that Johnson's identity is still debated - which it is - but the identity section starts with a flat statement that Dick North has established AJ's identity. I spent a good amount of time with North in Dawson City YT in the summers of 1991 and 1992 and I admire him and his work. Until there is a positive DNA identification of AJ's remains (which may have been done and certainly could be in the manner that Anna Andersen was proven not to be Princess Anastasia Romanov by comparing the DNA of her son [I believe] with that of the Duke of Edinburgh, a relative of the Romanovs - this before the conclusive evidence of finding Anastasia's remains), North's theory may well be the best.  But it is not the only credible one, as the two contributions following that paragraph indicate. Wiki policy is that when a controversy exists, all sides must be presented equally and dispassionately. Thus, while it may be appropriate to give North the lead here (and I point out that his The Mad Trapper of Rat River was published in 1972, 17 years before Trackdown),  he cannot be said to have definitely proven AJ's identity when there exist two sourced competing theories.
e) Give prorper credit and perspective to the project sponsored by The Discovery Channel but remove promotional material including all caps designation and blatant advertisement for an upcoming program Please see WP:ADVERT.
More to be done here, and I am certain that other editors have more to add - but the neutrality and integrity of the article must be preserved.  regards,  Sensei48 (talk) 18:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial Clean-Up, 4/10/09 

message: Wop May eventually became involved in the creation of Canadian Pacific Airlines, and has an entry already. Should be linked up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wop_May  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.109.109.244 (talk) 19:48, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wop May

message: I'm not comfortable with the one word disambiguation of Albert Johnson (criminal). While obviously shooting police officers is not legal, the use of the word implies that in life, crime was what Johnson did. We have no evidence that he was a criminal in any such sense. Indeed, his actions look more like those of a rather paranoid and antisocial survivalist. Albert Johnson (trapper) perhaps? 200.121.18.57 (talk) 15:16, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criminal 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: One part of this story that is missing & is important enough to be included, is the subsequent notoriety of this incident. People with sketchy backgrounds get in conflict with the law frequently enough that this would not meet WP's criteria for notability alone. But it's clear from all of the books listed -- which are not at all used in this article -- that Albert Johnson & his clash with the RCMP made the news of the time & provoked continued curiosity into his birth name & prior life. None of which are covered in this article; "Albert Johnson in Popular Culture" needs to be part of this article. -- llywrch (talk) 16:38, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism