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Ken Austin

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ6387260 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ken Austin may refer to:

Ken Austin (cricketer) (1908–2004), Rhodesian cricketer

Ken Austin (inventor) (born 1957), chairman of Inview Technology Ltd

Ken Austin (basketball) (born 1961), American basketball player

Ken Austin (politician) (1915–1986), Australian politician

Kenneth Darrell Austin (born 1951), former professional American football offensive lineman

See also

Kenneth Austen (born c.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ken Austin” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 2004, 1957, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Austin, Wikimedia and disambiguation 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 Mar 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6387260. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908, 2004, 1957 and 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ken Austin” 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.