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Jim MacBeth

Australian rules footballer (1914-1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ20679308 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jim MacBeth (7 April 1914 – 6 July 1997) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

“Jim MacBeth” enters the record as australian rules footballer (1914-1997). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what MacBeth, Australian and rules can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-04-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around MacBeth, Australian and rules.
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Why this record matters

“Jim MacBeth” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, MacBeth, Australian and rules provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q20679308. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914 and 1997.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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 “Jim MacBeth” 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.