Talk:John O'Neal (Medal of Honor)

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Moved, 12 January 2020, from [nil John O'Neal] to [[John O'Neal (Medal of Honor)]], see discussion.

Requested move 12 January 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: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 17:08, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

– Although there is only one other Wikipedia article delineating a bearer of this exact name (the dab page also lists two related names), a two-sentence stub about a historical personality so little known that even his death year has been lost to history, does not embody the expectation of a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 08:26, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support the politician gets 28 views compared to this one's 34, the DAB also gets 34 views. Johnny O'Neal gets 349 and John H. O'Neall gets 67 [[1]], clearly no primary topic. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:18, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support In general John O'Neal is a very common name. Without (Medal of Honor) after his name no one would know who you were talking about. By the way I found an article on the NY Times covering the event here Death by drowning of six memeber of the Nicaragua canal surveying. I don't have an online subscription so I can't read it but if someone does maybe there is more information in the article. Although not likley. Boston1775 (talk) 10:17, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Although the event is described, there is no mention in the article of anyone named John O'Neal nor of a specific heroic act. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 10:41, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bummer. I tried the National Archives and Library of Congress. Does the Navy not have a weblsite like the Army's "Center of Military History" that would have information? If he was awarded the medal of honor the citation must be somewhere. Boston1775 (talk) 10:51, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and Crouch, Swale's stats on primary topic applicability or lack thereof in this case. Plus, and any time a nom proposes to remove (disambiguation) from a dab page name, they have my support. Doug Mehus T·C 18:05, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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