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Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)

Scooby-Doo character

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Fred Herman Jones is a fictional cartoon character in the American animated series Scooby-Doo, leader of a quartet of teenage mystery solvers and their Great Dane companion, Scooby-Doo. Fred has been primarily voiced by Frank Welker since the character's inception in 1969.

Editorial summary

“Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)” enters the record as scooby-Doo character. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fred, Jones and Scooby-Doo can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fred, Jones and Scooby-Doo.
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Why this record matters

“Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fred, Jones and Scooby-Doo provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1969.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)” 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.