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Ray Veall

footballer (born 1943)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ7298231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raymond Joseph "Ray" Veall (born 16 March 1943) is an English former professional footballer who played as a left winger for Doncaster Rovers, Everton, Preston North End and Huddersfield Town in the Football League during the 1960s. He also played for the Los Angeles Wolves in the North American Soccer League.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ray Veall” as footballer (born 1943). 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—1943—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1943-03-16. The account is most persuasive where Veall, footballer and born can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as footballer (born 1943). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7298231. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ray Veall”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ray Veall primary sources, Ray Veall archive and Veall 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 “Ray Veall”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ray Veall” 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.