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Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy

album by Echo Orbiter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ7103922 ↗
Source-derived summary

Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy is the seventh studio album by Echo Orbiter. It was released on Looking Glass Workshop in 2008.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy” is album by Echo Orbiter. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Orphan, Kids and Withdrawn, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. For this dossier, Orphan, Kids and Withdrawn is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Echo Orbiter” 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

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7103922. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy primary sources, Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy archive and Orphan 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 “Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out of This Comedy” 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.