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Mike Ramsay

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ6848500 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mike Ramsay may refer to:

Mike Ramsay, candidate of the Liberal Party in the 2003 Ontario, Canada provincial election

Mike Ramsay, co-creator of TiVo and co-founder of the company, TiVo Inc.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mike Ramsay” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mike, Ramsay and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mike, Ramsay and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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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 Jan 8, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6848500. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Ramsay” 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.