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Eric Walker (footballer)

Footballer (born 1933)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ5387694 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eric Walker (born 5 October 1933) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a winger.

Career

Walker played for Alloa before joining Dundee United in 1959. After two years at Tannadice, Walker moved to Brechin City, making thirteen league appearances in his solitary season at Glebe Park.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Eric Walker (footballer)” as footballer (born 1933). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eric, Walker and footballer.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-10-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eric, Walker and footballer providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Eric Walker (footballer)”, the useful work is to connect “footballer (born 1933)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Nov 16, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5387694. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1933 and 1959.

Critical limits

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

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This entry incorporates text from “Eric Walker (footballer)” 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.