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Walter Lamont

association football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ20641106 ↗
Source-derived summary

Walter Lamont was a Scottish footballer who played as a right winger.

Career

Lamont played club football for Apsley, Pilgrims and Corinthians, and made one appearance for Scotland in 1885.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Walter Lamont” is association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Walter, Lamont and association, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Walter, Lamont and association is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “association football player” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q20641106. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1885.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Walter Lamont” 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.