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James Brown (BMX rider)

Canadian BMX rider

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ23664069 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Brown (born 26 June 1989) is a Canadian male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed in the time trial event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships.

Editorial summary

“James Brown (BMX rider)” enters the record as canadian BMX rider. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Brown and rider can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-06-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around James, Brown and rider.
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Why this record matters

“James Brown (BMX rider)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, James, Brown and rider provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23664069. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 2015.

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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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This entry incorporates text from “James Brown (BMX rider)” 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.