Talk:Bill Allen (businessman)

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"Bill Allen was born in New Mexico and at the age of 16 left for the oil fields of Alaska to become a welder to help support his family."

Information is scarce, but best indications are that Allen was born in 1937. By 1953 or 1954, there was active oil exploration occurring on both the North Slope and the Kenai Peninsula, but no real "oil industry" to speak of. Most of the real action at that time centered among speculation on oil leases amongst members of the Anchorage business community. This statement may need to be confirmed through reliable sources. RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 01:01, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

While we're at it: I realize that this article was constructed mainly as a coatrack to the Alaska political corruption probe article. However, I came across this and this. Are we to go along with the prevailing attitude and treat that information as totally unrelated and irrelevant to this article? RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 19:18, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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I do not believe this article paints Allen in a negative light. It doesn't even mention his pedophilia accusations, which are well documented elsewhere. I've removed one statement but it just seems that this whole article is biased towards Allen. ~ AlaskaGal~ ^_^ 20:22, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Let me reword the beginning, I believe the article paints him in too positive a light. AlaskaGal~ ^_^ 20:26, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

His pedophilia allegations are mentioned in the first paragraph. 173.73.194.43 (talk) 14:37, 20 December 2023 (UTC)