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Hi and thank you for your welcome.It has taken me a while to get the hang of using these pages - the laptop version is very user-unfriendly. Before I leave you again I just wanted to express my surprise that an original enlistment form or an original census return do not constitute a good source. Contemporary newspaper articles are also usually acceptable sources. Anyway, I made my case and if none of the above are good enough to raise doubts as to the parentage of Myles Moylan or to warrant publication in the reference section on his page then I guess there is nothing further that I have to offer. I am writing an article about him for a historical publication - The Journal of the Old Tuam Society - so at least his profile will be raised in his hometown of Tuam.

Thanks again. BuffyO'B (talk) 07:44, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

April 2021

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Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did with this edit to Myles Moylan. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 18:06, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Myles Moylan, you may be blocked from editing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:14, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

@ScottishFinnishRadish: I think this user meant to put references, but had trouble. He also asked at the teahouse for adding references. Severestorm28 (talk) 19:41, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Michael Titus Moylan has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Michael Titus Moylan. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 18:55, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Michael Titus Moylan (November 27)

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Thank you for your feedback. I find it difficult to understand why the Necrology (Life Story)of Bro M.T. Moylan which was compiled by the Christian Brothers is not an acceptable source. The Moylans of Tuam which was published last week in the Journal of the Old Tuam Society #18 features Bro Michael Titus and his uncle Major Myles Moylan. If you check the Superior Generals of the Christian Brothers on the following Wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_of_Christian_Brothers you will see that Michael Titus is number five on the list. If you open the page for James Aloysius Hoare, you will see that his entry is supported by a Findagrave reference. BuffyO'B (talk) 20:28, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Michael Titus Moylan (February 17)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

It is not even clear on what basis notability is claimed. And in any case, notability requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources, which has not been shown. The sourcing also largely fails, as most of the citations point to the root of a domain, rather than to specific articles or other publications supporting the contents.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Michael Titus Moylan (March 12)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Devonian Wombat was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Devonian Wombat (talk) 10:31, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing my submission. I'm afraid that an article in an historical journal (Journal of the Old Tuam Society) is the best that I can find by way of a published, reliable, secondary source that is independent of the subject. The newspaper articles that I previously cited, were also discredited.

Thanks for your time. BuffyO'B (talk) 19:51, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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Mirrors

Thanks for contributing to the article Myles Moylan. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 16:40, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

As before, the 'kiddle' source acquires information from here and very clearly identifies this. Do not use it as a source. Please slow down and carefully evaluate your sources.Sam Kuru (talk) 02:14, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for that information and patience. As a matter of interest, if you look at the citation, the only citation, that supports Myles Moylans birthplace as being Amesbury, Massachusetts, you will see that, when you scroll down, the archivist for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society has conceded that Major Moylan was born in Ireland but they use Amesbury as it was the place of birth he gave when he started the enlistment for which he earned the Medal of Honor. https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/myles-moylan

I know Wikipedia doesn't entertain primary sources but the Congressional Medal of Honor Society does. I furnished them with a number of documents that supports Major Moylan's birthplace as being, at least, Ireland. I attached them to family members on his Findagrave site. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5929202/myles-moylan.

From a Wikipedia point of view, I don't understand why an article that appeared in the Tuam Herald (County Galway newspaper) a few weeks after the Battle of the Little Bighorn that connects him firmly to his family in Tuam is not an acceptable source (attached to his brother John on Findagrave). BuffyO'B (talk) 11:06, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi Kuru, I have been trying for five years to get Major Moylan recognised as, at least, an Irishman. Currently, there is only one citation to support Amesbury as Moylan's place of birth on his Wiki page - the Congressional Medal of Honor Society - https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/myles-moylan. However, if you scroll down to the bottom of his CMOHS page, you'll see a note from the archivist to say that the Society uses Amesbury as his birthplace as that was the place of birth he used when he started the enlistment for which he earned the Medal of Honor, but they agree that he was, indeed, born in Ireland. For all intents and purposes, there is no longer supporting evidence to back his Amesbury birthplace. Is it possible to delete Amesbury altogether? In the American Civil War section, there is a sentence "He then enlisted under the assumed name of Charles Thomas into the 4th Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Regiment on December 2, 1863". Is it possible to add from Amesbury after Charles E. Thomas and something to the effect that it was at this stage that the confusion about his birthplace started. I believe Myles was trying to avoid the prevalent anti-Irish prejudice by shedding his Irish identity.

On another point, I submitted a July 1876 newspaper report from the Tuam Herald (local Galway newspaper) titled "Custer's Army - a Tuam man". It heralded "townsman's" Moylan's "providential escape" at Little Bighorn a few weeks previously and clearly connects Moylan to his late brother and nephews who were still living in Tuam at that time. Apparently, it wasn't acceptable as proof that he was a Tuam man. His parents were married in Tuam and are buried out in Claretuam, not far from Tuam. I attached documents supporting his Tuam birth to the profiles of his family members on Findagrave so that other researchers will find them and figure out for themselves where he was born - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5929202/myles-moylan. If you have any suggestions that might help me, I'd appreciate them. BuffyO'B (talk) 13:17, 8 June 2026 (UTC)