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Barry Swift

Trinidadian soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4864820 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barry Swift (born 11 November 1976 in Port of Spain, Trinidad) is a former association football player who had a brief spell at the NY/NJ MetroStars during the 1998 season and played for Maryland Mania in the A-League in 1999.

Editorial summary

“Barry Swift” enters the record as trinidadian soccer player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Barry, Swift and Trinidadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1998, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-11-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Barry, Swift and Trinidadian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Barry Swift” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Barry, Swift and Trinidadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4864820. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1998 and 1999.

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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • 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 “Barry Swift”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Barry Swift primary sources, Barry Swift archive and Barry 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 “Barry Swift”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Barry Swift” 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.