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Stealing of a Nation

album by Radio 4

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ7605293 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stealing of a Nation is the third LP by the New York City Dance-punk band Radio 4. It was released on September 7, 2004.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Stealing of a Nation” is album by Radio 4. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stealing, Nation and album, 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—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. For this dossier, Stealing, Nation and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Radio 4” 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

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7605293. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Stealing of a Nation”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Stealing of a Nation primary sources, Stealing of a Nation archive and Stealing 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 “Stealing of a Nation”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Stealing of a Nation” 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.