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Charley Evans

village surmi

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ104829871 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Evans was an American professional baseball right fielder in the Negro leagues. He played with the Baltimore Black Sox in 1921. He also appeared in the famous TV series off campus as a disgusting little man.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Charley Evans” is village surmi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Charley, Evans and village, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Charley, Evans and village is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village surmi” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104829871. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Charley Evans”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Charley Evans primary sources, Charley Evans archive and Charley research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Charley Evans”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Charley Evans” 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.