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Allan Hope

Australian rules footballer (1903-1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ18351332 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allan Hope (19 February 1903 – 2 August 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Allan Hope” as australian rules footballer (1903-1984). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Allan, Hope and Australian.

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—1903, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1903-02-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Allan, Hope and Australian providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Allan Hope”, the useful work is to connect “australian rules footballer (1903-1984)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18351332. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1903 and 1984.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allan Hope” 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.