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Gareth Maule

Welsh rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ5522905 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gareth Maule (born in Pontypool, Wales on 4 December 1987) is a Welsh rugby union player currently playing at Centre. He attended New College School Cardiff and St Albans RC High School.

Maule has been capped for Wales at U16, U18, U19 and U20 over 20 times.

In May 2009, it was announced that Maule had signed for the Scarlets from Newport Gwent Dragons. Maule has previously played for Ebbw Vale RFC, Newport RFC, Cross Keys RFC and Bristol Rugby.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gareth Maule” is welsh rugby union player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gareth, Maule and Welsh, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1987, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-12-04. For this dossier, Gareth, Maule and Welsh is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “welsh rugby union player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5522905. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gareth Maule” 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.