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Brian Thomas

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2024
Entity authorityQ11782755 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brian Thomas may refer to:

Brian Thomas (church artist) (1912–1989), British mural artist

Brian Thomas (politician) (born 1939), American politician in Washington state

Brian Thomas (rugby union) (1940–2012), Wales international rugby union player

Brian Thomas Jr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Brian Thomas” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1989, 1939, 1940—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Brian, Thomas and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q11782755. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1989, 1939 and 1940.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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  2. Expand the search: follow Brian Thomas primary sources, Brian Thomas archive and Brian 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

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Brian Thomas” 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.