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Mark Mom

Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ6768914 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mark Mom is a Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer who represented Papua New Guinea in the 2000 World Cup.

Playing career

Mom attended St John's College, Woodlawn in Australia and played for the Australian Schoolboys' side.

In 1994 he played for the Papua New Guinea side at the 1994 World Sevens.

Between 1996 and 2001 he played eight test matches for the Kumuls, including four at the 2000 World Cup.

Editorial summary

“Mark Mom” enters the record as papua New Guinean rugby league footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mark, Papua and Guinean 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—2000, 1994, 1996, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mark, Papua and Guinean.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Mark Mom” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mark, Papua and Guinean 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 May 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6768914. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1994, 1996 and 2001.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Mom” 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.