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Bob Linklater

Australian rugby league player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ4933174 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Linklater (1893–1953) was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League.

Linklater, a fullback, played first grade with Eastern Suburbs in the 1915 season, and lower grades until 1919. He also played with South Sydney in 1923.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bob Linklater” as australian rugby league player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Linklater, Australian and rugby.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1953, 1915, 1919—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Linklater, Australian and rugby providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bob Linklater”, the useful work is to connect “australian rugby league player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4933174. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1953, 1915 and 1919.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bob Linklater” 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.