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Andre Wasserfall

South African cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ103898936 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andre Wasserfall (born 13 November 1955) is a South African cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for Boland in 1980/81.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Andre Wasserfall” is south African cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Andre, Wasserfall and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-11-13. For this dossier, Andre, Wasserfall and South is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “south African cricketer” 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 Jan 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q103898936. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andre Wasserfall” 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.