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James Derbyshire

(1882-1945)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ98280554 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Edward Derbyshire (27 May 1882 – 1945) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “James Derbyshire” as (1882-1945). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 1945—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1882-05-27. The account is most persuasive where James, Derbyshire and 1882-1945 can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as (1882-1945). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Aug 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q98280554. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1882 and 1945.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Derbyshire” 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.