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Broken Strings

Topics referred to by the same term

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2017
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Broken Strings may mean:"Broken Strings" (song) by James Morrison featuring Nelly Furtado

Broken Strings (film), a 1940 film

strings (music), strings used in musical instruments

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Broken Strings” as topics referred to by the same term. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Broken, Strings and Topics can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as topics referred to by the same term. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Oct 3, 2017. The first chronological checks are 1940.

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.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Broken Strings” 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.