Talk:Charles Lee Bufford

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Requested move 11 May 2020[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus (non-admin closure) b uidhe 04:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Lee Bufford → Murder of William Roland Cooper, Jr. – Fails WP:BLP1E and WP:CRIME. This article's scope should be changed to the event. The event is not a "well-documented historic event" and a BLP is not necessary or prudent. The focus should be on the crime or event. This RM is proposed as WP:ATD. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 10:51, 11 May 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. b uidhe 04:07, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: The article does not seem to be primarily about the murder of Cooper, but about how Bufford's case was subsequently handled in the justice system and what happened after he was released. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:30, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Rape allegation[edit]

I looked for a source to confirm a statement in the article that Bufford moved to New England and was convicted of rape there. That was not stated in any of the three sources that are cited in the article. I could not find any sources that directly confirmed that allegation, so I removed it. I found a record of a Charles L. Bufford as a registered Level 3 sex offender in Lynn, Massachusetts, but I am not sure whether it is the same person. That person (also shown here), if their listed birth date of February 18, 1955, is correct, would have been 22 years old on April 30, 1977, the date of the death of Roland Cooper. However, our sources say that this article is about someone who was 23, not 22, at that time. The Massachusetts sex offender does bear some resemblance to the picture at the top of this page, showing the man who is the subject of this article, but there's about a 40-year age difference between the two pictures. —BarrelProof (talk) 00:44, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]