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Hawke

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 8, 2022
Entity authorityQ387408
Source-derived summary

Hawke may refer to:

Hawke (surname)

In fiction

Hawke (film), a 2010 Australian television film about Bob Hawke

Hawke (novel), a 2003 novel by Ted Bell

Hawke (Advance Wars), a fictional commander first introduced in Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

Hawke (Dragon Age), a prominent character from the Dragon Age video game series

Hawke, a fictional character in the video game Romancing SaGa

Cannon Hawke, comic book character

Connor Hawke, comic book character

Jeff Hawke, a science fiction comic strip

Elizabeth Hawke, protagonist/antagonist in the Australian series Wicked Science

Places

Hawke Bay, a bay on the North Island of New Zealand

Hawke's Bay, the area surrounding Hawke Bay, New Zealand

Hawke's Bay (Karachi), a beach and neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan

Hawke's Bay Province, a historical province of New Zealand

Hawke (New Zealand electorate), a historical parliamentary electorate of New Zealand

Mount Hawke, village in Cornwall, England, U.K.

Hawke (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon

Division of Hawke, Australian electoral division

Hawkesdale, Victoria, Australia

Hawksdale, a location in Cumbria, England, sometimes called "Hawkesdale"

Ships

HMS Hawke, the name of various British Royal Navy ships

Organisations

Hawke Sea Scouts, a Scouting unit in Auckland, New Zealand.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hawke” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hawke, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2010, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hawke, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” 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

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 8, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q387408. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 2003.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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 Hawke” 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.