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Brett Alderman

Australian volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ9179226
Source-derived summary

Brett Norman Wells Alderman (born 12 December 1977) is a former Australian male volleyball player. He was part of the Australia men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He played with TSV Unterhaching in 2004.

Editorial summary

“Brett Alderman” enters the record as australian volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brett, Alderman and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1977, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-02-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brett, Alderman and Australian.
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Why this record matters

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

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 Aug 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9179226. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Brett Alderman” 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.