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Jim Munday Sr.

Australian rules footballer (1887-1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ21079010 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Joseph Munday Sr. (7 July 1887 – 27 May 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Jim Munday Sr.'s playing statistics from AFL Tables

Jim Munday Sr.

Editorial summary

“Jim Munday Sr.” enters the record as australian rules footballer (1887-1955). 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—1887, 1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1887-07-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Munday, Australian and rules.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jim Munday Sr.” 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 Q21079010. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887 and 1955.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Jim Munday Sr.” 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.