Talk:Michael Malloy: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit Next edit →

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Inline

Revision as of 14:31, 1 September 2013

Biography Start‑class

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Crime and Criminal Biography Unassessed

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Crime and Criminal Biography articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Crime and Criminal BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyCrime-related articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Death Unassessed

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Death, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Death on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DeathWikipedia:WikiProject DeathTemplate:WikiProject DeathDeath articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

United States Unassessed

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

New York City Unassessed

	New York City portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York City, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New York City-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York CityWikipedia:WikiProject New York CityTemplate:WikiProject New York CityNew York City articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Popular Culture Unassessed (inactive)

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Popular Culture, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Popular CultureWikipedia:WikiProject Popular CultureTemplate:WikiProject Popular CulturePopular Culture articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Ireland Unassessed

	Ireland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ireland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ireland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IrelandWikipedia:WikiProject IrelandTemplate:WikiProject IrelandIreland articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Untitled

Well, I don't have a subscription so I can't read the whole article but the New Your Times archive[1] corroborates at least the core truth of the murder plot. As for the validity of such details as the various poisons, I'm sure the story has been embellished over time. And then there is the ridiculous addition at the end of an exhumed Malloy still being alive that is pure fantasy; even according to the listed source. Ridiculous.69.148.171.32 (talk) 22:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can't believe many of these stories are true... although they still might be worth documenting as stories. What are the sources?

Christ, there's books, programs and plays based on it, I think we can presume it's true. Troubleshooter 21:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So now anything anyone says is true, so long as other people agree? You don't happen to be religious, do you?Vegetable4 22:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The original writer of this article almost certainly got his/her information from one of the People's Almanac books written by David Wallenchinsky and co. The latest one, I think, was The People's Almanac Presents: The 20th Century and Malloy's story is found in the chapter on death under "Famous Non-Survivors." At least, *I've* never seen it mentioned in any other book, etc.--Massofspikes 19:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there a link to Rasputin? Other than the fact that he was, in theory, also very hard to kill off, they're entirely unrelated. What gives? 66.159.76.67 04:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because he was very hard to kill off, that is the whole reason, not many people could survive multiple murder attempts.Davie4264 20:22, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific discussion of this?

On reading the article, the whole story comes across sounding like an urban legend. Perhaps there could be a section on possible scientific causes of the phenomena he displayed, assuming of course that the story is true? That might lend the article a bit more credibility.FlamingSilmaril 13:20, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Credibility

Come on, this needs more sources for such surprising claims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.102.197 (talk) 22:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
 {{WikiProject New York City}} <!-- NYC death -->
 {{WikiProject Popular culture}}
+{{WPIRELAND}}
 }}