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John Valentine

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 revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ11784334 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Valentine may refer to:

John Valentine (composer) (1730–1791), English composer, father of composer Ann Valentine

John Valentine (cricketer) (born 1954), Canadian cricketer

John Valentine (baseball) (1855–1903), American baseball player and umpire

John J. Valentine, Sr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “John Valentine” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around John, Valentine and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1730, 1791, 1954, 1855—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with John, Valentine and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “John Valentine”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11784334. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1730, 1791, 1954 and 1855.

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

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “John Valentine” 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.