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Mike Addy

English footballer (born 1943)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16106161 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michael Addy (born 20 February 1943) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a wing half.

References

General

Mike Addy at the English National Football Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 31 October 2013.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mike Addy” as english footballer (born 1943). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1943-02-20. The account is most persuasive where Mike, Addy and English can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as english footballer (born 1943). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16106161. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1943 and 2013.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mike Addy”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mike Addy primary sources, Mike Addy archive and Mike research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mike Addy”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mike Addy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.