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Mr. Wilson

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 revisionDec 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ18230417 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mr. Wilson may refer to:

Mr. Wilson, the cantankerous, middle-aged next-door neighbor from the comic strip Dennis the Menace

"Mr. Wilson," a song from John Cale's 1974 album Slow Dazzle

David Wilson, curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology the subject of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder.

See also

List of people with surname Wilson

Harold Wilson (1916–1995), British prime minister, referred to as "Mr.

Editorial summary

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

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—1974, 1916, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wilson, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18230417. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1916 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mr. Wilson” 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.