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Nick Walne

Welsh rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16215630 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nicholas John Walne (born 18 September 1975) is a former Wales international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1999 Rugby World Cup squad. Walne usually played on the wing but sometimes at centre. He played his club rugby for Cardiff. Walne was raised in the Monmouthshire village of Llangybi and educated at Caerleon Comprehensive School.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nick Walne” as welsh rugby union player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nick, Walne and Welsh.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-09-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nick, Walne and Welsh providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Nick Walne”, the useful work is to connect “welsh rugby union player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16215630. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1999.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nick Walne” 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.