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Jim Munday

Australian rules footballer, born 1917

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ6197078 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Joseph Munday (1 November 1917 – 27 July 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL. Munday won the 1944 Carji Greeves Medal for Geelong's best and fairest player, in his debut season.

Editorial summary

“Jim Munday” enters the record as australian rules footballer, born 1917. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Munday, Australian and rules can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1971, 1944—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1917-11-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Munday, Australian and rules.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6197078. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1971 and 1944.

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.

How to read it

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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 “Jim Munday” 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.