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Frank Tinitelia

New Zealand rugby league footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ29169204 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frank Tinitelia is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand.

Playing career

A prop forward, Tinitelia played for the Otahuhu Leopards in the Auckland Rugby League competition.

He represented Auckland and in 1983 was called up to play for the New Zealand national rugby league team. He played in one test match against Papua New Guinea, becoming Kiwi number 577.

Editorial summary

“Frank Tinitelia” enters the record as new Zealand rugby league footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frank, Tinitelia and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Frank, Tinitelia and Zealand.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Frank Tinitelia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Frank, Tinitelia and Zealand provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 May 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q29169204. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Tinitelia” 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.