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Bill de Freitas

Guyanese cricketer (1923-1978)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ102144530 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bill de Freitas (19 September 1923 – 11 May 1978) was a Guyanese cricketer. He played in one first-class match for British Guiana in 1943/44.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bill de Freitas” as guyanese cricketer (1923-1978). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1978, 1943—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-09-19. The account is most persuasive where Bill, Freitas and Guyanese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as guyanese cricketer (1923-1978). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q102144530. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923, 1978 and 1943.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill de Freitas” 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.