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Paul Kennett

British rugby league player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ7151754 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul Kennett is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Swinton.

Playing career

Club career

Kennett was signed by Swinton from Welsh rugby union club Tondu RFC. He made his first team debut in 1991.

International honours

Kennett won one cap for Wales as a substitute in 1992 while at Swinton.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Paul Kennett” as british rugby league player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Paul, Kennett and British can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british rugby league player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Dec 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7151754. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1992.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Paul Kennett” 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.