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Les Irving

Australian rules footballer (1904-1973)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ21070071 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leslie Whittle Irving (20 October 1904 – 27 September 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

“Les Irving” enters the record as australian rules footballer (1904-1973). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Irving, 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—1904, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-10-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Irving, Australian and rules.
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Why this record matters

“Les Irving” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Irving, 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 Q21070071. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1904 and 1973.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Les Irving” 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.