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Ray Anderson

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ7297135 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ray orRaymond Anderson may refer to:

Ray Anderson (athletic director), athletic director at Arizona State University

Ray Anderson (boxer) (born 1944), light heavyweight boxer

Ray Anderson (journalist), The New York Times reporter

Ray Anderson (musician) (born 1952), jazz trombonist

Ray Anderson (entrepreneur) (1934–2011), founder and chairman of Interface Inc.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ray Anderson” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anderson, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 1952, 1934, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Anderson, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7297135. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1952, 1934 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ray Anderson” 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.