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Damian Kitschke

Australian footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5212278 ↗
Source-derived summary

Damian Kitschke (born 13 May 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Kitschke, a ruckman and forward, started his career at Sturt, in 1986. He was selected by St Kilda with pick 57 in the 1987 National Draft and played 29 games for the club over the course of two seasons.

Editorial summary

“Damian Kitschke” enters the record as australian footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Damian, Kitschke and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1986, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-05-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Damian, Kitschke and Australian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5212278. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1986 and 1987.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Damian Kitschke”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Damian Kitschke primary sources, Damian Kitschke archive and Damian 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

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Damian Kitschke” 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.