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Matt Shearer

lacrosse player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ6789322 ↗
Source-derived summary

Matt Shearer (born October 19, 1973, in Whitby, Ontario) is a retired lacrosse player. Shearer retired after the 2007 NLL season following a ten-year career in the National Lacrosse League.

Statistics

NLL

Reference:

GP–Games played; G–Goals; A–Assists; Pts–Points; LB–Loose balls; PIM–Penalty minutes; Pts/GP–Points per games played; LB/GP–Loose balls per games played; PIM/GP–Penalty minutes per games played.

College

Shearer played one season at Loyola College where he scored 30 goals and had 15 assists in 1997.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Matt Shearer” as lacrosse player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2007, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-10-19. The account is most persuasive where Matt, Shearer and lacrosse can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as lacrosse player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Apr 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6789322. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 2007 and 1997.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Matt Shearer”?
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This entry incorporates text from “Matt Shearer” 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.