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Behold My Wife

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2016
Entity authorityQ20996873 ↗
Source-derived summary

Behold My Wife may refer to:

Behold My Wife! (1920 film), American silent film based on Gilbert Parker's novel The Translation of a Savage; directed by George Melford

Behold My Wife!

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Behold My Wife” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Behold, Wife and Wikimedia.

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—1920—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Behold, Wife and Wikimedia 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 “Behold My Wife”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2016. The linked authority identifier is Q20996873. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Behold My Wife” 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.