Talk:James Dale Ritchie

A fact from James Dale Ritchie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 May 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James Dale Ritchie was not suspected to be the Anchorage Serial Killer until after he had been shot dead while attacking a police officer?

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I've already expressed my feelings elsewhere, but since this has been such a blatant POV-pushing exercise (e.g. "THE Anchorage Serial Killer"? Forgot about Joshua Wade so soon, huh?), I really don't want to go near it. However, I did upload a photo of Valley of the Moon Park a little while ago, which could be useful. The photo isn't the greatest quality, but I don't see any of you going out and taking photos like this; our coverage of Anchorage on Commons is dominated by tourist photos of Fourth Avenue and propaganda from JBER. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 07:48, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. That's passive aggressiveness if ever I've read it. DARTHBOTTO_talk•cont 23:20, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I found the file, so we can try that. But, jeez, you can lay off being so harsh? I've cooperated with you in all our discussions, without incident. I have a Samsung Galaxy S5, so I could take some pictures. DARTHBOTTO_talk•cont 23:32, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The article says he is also known as the "Midnight Sun Killer". I've just removed a section about a youtube video that did call him that. I've poked around in the sources and so far have not seen that name anywhere. If it was just this one youtube video I don't think it belongs in the article at all, thought I'd bring it here first in case anyone was aware of an actual reliable source using it. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:56, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Beeblebrox: It's a terrific docu-feature, but it's literally the only reference I could find calling him that. Even though "Anchorage Serial Killer" had a little traction, it wasn't nearly enough to mention in the article, so I removed that, as well. DÅRTHBØTTØ_(T•C) 22:48, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]