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Jack Doherty (footballer, born 1915)

Australian rules footballer, born 1915

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ18641457 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jack Doherty (5 August 1915 – 22 October 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jack Doherty (footballer, born 1915)” as australian rules footballer, born 1915. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jack, Doherty 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—1915, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1915-08-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jack, Doherty and footballer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jack Doherty (footballer, born 1915)”, the useful work is to connect “australian rules footballer, born 1915” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18641457. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1915 and 1990.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Jack Doherty (footballer, born 1915)” 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.