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Marguerite

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 revisionJul 15, 2023
Entity authorityQ2776751
Source-derived summary

Marguerite may refer to:

People

Marguerite (given name), including a list of people with the name

Places

Marguerite, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community

Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

Marguerite Island, Adélie Land, Antarctica

Entertainment

Marguerite (musical), a 2008 West End musical by Michel Legrand

"Margueritte", a song by Oregon from the album Winter Light

Marguerite (2015 film), a French film

Marguerite (2017 film), a Canadian film

Ships

USS Marguerite (SP-193), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

USS Marguerite II (SP-892), another United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 and 1919; renamed SP-892 in 1918 to avoid confusion

HMAS Marguerite, a Royal Navy sloop transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1920

Marguerite (ship), a French cargo ship launched in 1912, sunk by a U-boat in 1917

SS Princess Marguerite, a series of 20th century Canadian coastal vessels.

Editorial summary

“Marguerite” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marguerite, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2015, 2017, 1917—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marguerite, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Marguerite” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Marguerite, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jul 15, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q2776751. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008, 2015, 2017 and 1917.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Marguerite primary sources, Marguerite archive and Marguerite research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Marguerite” 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.