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Keith McPhee

Australian rules footballer (1914-1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ20679313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keith Ross McPhee (10 July 1914 – 5 May 1995) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

McPhee enlisted and served in the Australian Army during World War II, seeing service in Port Moresby and Borneo.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Keith McPhee” is australian rules footballer (1914-1995). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Keith, McPhee and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-07-10. For this dossier, Keith, McPhee and Australian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “australian rules footballer (1914-1995)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q20679313. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914 and 1995.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Keith McPhee”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Keith McPhee primary sources, Keith McPhee archive and Keith 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

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Keith McPhee”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Keith McPhee” 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.