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Eddie Stokes

New Zealand rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ19577984 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edward James Taite Stokes (born 26 June 1950) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A centre, Stokes represented Bay of Plenty at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on the 1976 tour of South America. He participated in five matches during the tour, one of which was against Uruguay; however, international caps were not awarded for that game.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Eddie Stokes” as new Zealand rugby union player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eddie, Stokes and Zealand.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-06-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eddie, Stokes and Zealand providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19577984. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eddie Stokes” 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.