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James Lang

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2021
Entity authorityQ3806634 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Lang may refer to:

Sportsmen

James Lang (basketball) (born 1983), American basketball player

Jimmy Lang (1851–?), Scottish footballer

James Lang (cricketer) (1900–1973), English cricketer

Jim Lang (rugby union) (1909–1991), Welsh international rugby union player

James Lang (rugby union) (born 1995), Scottish international rugby union player

Others

Chris Lang (politician) (James Christian Lang, 1910–2002), Australian politician

Clubber Lang, James "Clubber" Lang, fictional boxer in Rocky III portrayed by Mr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “James Lang” as wikimedia disambiguation page. 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—1983, 1851, 1900, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where James, Lang and Wikimedia 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 wikimedia disambiguation page. 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 Nov 3, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q3806634. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983, 1851, 1900 and 1973.

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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 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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “James Lang” 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.