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Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils

Australian rugby league club, based in Lake Macquarie, NSW

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7910918 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils are a junior rugby league club based in Lake Macquarie, NSW. They were formed in 1970, and have become a feeder club for Lakes United in the Newcastle Rugby League and the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils” is australian rugby league club, based in Lake Macquarie, NSW. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Valentine-Eleebana, Devils and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-01-01. For this dossier, Valentine-Eleebana, Devils and Australian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “australian rugby league club, based in Lake Macquarie, NSW” 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

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7910918. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils primary sources, Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils archive and Valentine-Eleebana 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 “Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils” 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.