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Bert Everett

Australian rules footballer (1904-1958)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionDec 29, 2024

Entity authorityQ15999110 ↗

Source-derived summary

Herbert Arthur Everett (27 November 1904 – 20 May 1958) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bert Everett” as australian rules footballer (1904-1958). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bert, Everett 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—1904, 1958—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-11-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bert, Everett 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 “Bert Everett”, the useful work is to connect “australian rules footballer (1904-1958)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15999110. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1904 and 1958.

Critical limits

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bert Everett” 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.