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Desmond Spackman

Australian field hockey player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ67888359 ↗
Source-derived summary

Desmond William Joseph Spackman (born 4 January 1929) is an Australian field hockey player. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Desmond Spackman” enters the record as australian field hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Desmond, Spackman 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—1929, 1956, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-01-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Desmond, Spackman and Australian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q67888359. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1956 and 1960.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Desmond Spackman”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Desmond Spackman primary sources, Desmond Spackman archive and Desmond 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 “Desmond Spackman”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Desmond Spackman” 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.