Talk:Michael Malloy

message: Is it Malloy or Molloy?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike The Durable (talk • contribs) 23:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Well, I don't have a subscription so I can't read the whole article but the New Your Times archive 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)
replies: text: Christ, there's books, programs and plays based on it, I think we can presume it's true. <B>Troubleshooter</B> 21:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 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)
thread_title:  Scientific discussion of this? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Credibility 

message: "plotted to deploy a ploy to destroy the unemployed Malloy"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:248:4200:E340:B435:5DB8:D6:6415 (talk) 07:22, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seemingly intentional poetry 

message: The temperature of -14 F seems dubious to me. According to this source listing the coldest days in NYC history, which quotes an AccuWeather spokesman, there were only two days past negative 10: one in 1917, and one in 1943. But none in 1933; the only low recorded in 1933 was negative 6, and that was at the end of the year, while this article claims that the attempts on Malloy's life began in January 1933 and culminated on February 23, 1933. I also checked annual data from the National Climatic Data Center for two of their weather stations in 1933, and both reported their extreme minimum temperature on December 30: negative 6 in Central Park (corroborating the other source), and negative 8 in Flushing, not anywhere close to negative 14, and not in January either. If there truly were such low temperatures in early 1933, it would definitely have been reported in the news of the time, so maybe someone could dig up that info. Opencooper (talk) 06:17, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temperature 

message: Given the determination for a certain person (who is not hesitant to use multiple accounts/ips) to add a mildly amusing joke to this article, maybe it's time to introduce some sort of protection here? -R. fiend (talk) 03:31, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection  

message: I think it is inappropriate to place a photo of the victim during the autopsy in the article. I also do not see any relevant information that this photo contains.
Are there any objections to removing this photo from the article? Malanoqa (talk) 09:20, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The photo provides some context for the damages done to Malloy, and removing it only provides less information.  Wikipedia is not censored.  (I will point out, however, the image might not be long for the Wikimedia Commons: Mike Malloy's body, during autopsy.jpg is currently tagged there as possibly tagged with the improper copyright claim.)  —  Fourthords | =Λ= | 13:48, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for the information about the copyright problem of the photo. What is the concrete benefit of this photo for this article? The presentation of a photo that humiliates a victim should in my opinion only be done if there are good reasons to show it.   Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information Malanoqa (talk) 20:10, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  If it , then I can see its value.  I don't understand how a post-mortem photograph is "humiliating", nor how one even humiliates a man who is some 88.68 years dead.  —  Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:02, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove picture of victim on autopsy table

message: In the death certificate it reads age = 40 years. This is not consistent with 1873 as year of birth, but more consistent with 1893. Is there a reference for 1873 as birth year? Best, --Thomas Dresler (talk) 10:03, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: See my reply below.  The death certificate was deliberately falsified. Esq263 (talk) 01:54, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age, Date of Birth 

message: In the summary at the beginning of the article, the date of death is February 22, but in the text it is mentioned that the murder finally took place on February 23. Small detail, but a contradiction. 24.201.200.61 (talk) 10:54, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death's date 

message: The picture of the death certificate is for a Michael or Nicholas Mallory, born in the U.S. and died at age 40. Clearly not Malloy, as he was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and supposedly died in his 60's. 2603:6081:3209:BC00:955F:1D5D:96CB:4154 (talk) 10:53, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This was the correct death certificate.  Having insured Malloy under the name "Nicholas Mallory", the conspirators caused a death certificate to be issued under that name, which included the falsified data regarding his age and birthplace.  One of their number pretended to be his brother in order to collect the insurance payments. Esq263 (talk) 01:52, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Death Certificate