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Wayne Stewart (rugby league)

rugby league footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ116503273 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wayne Stewart (born 2 June 1951) is an Australian former rugby league player.

An ex-Marist College Ashgrove pupil, Stewart was a winger and occasional fullback, often utilised as a goal-kicker during his first-grade career with Wests, where he won back to back premierships in 1975 and 1976.

Stewart was a Queensland interstate representative player in the early 1970s and made one Test match appearance for Australia, kicking five goals in a win over New Zealand at Lang Park in 1972.

Retiring as Wests top all-time points-scorer, Stewart was named on the wing in the club's Team of Century in 2015.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wayne Stewart (rugby league)” as rugby league footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1951, 1975, 1976, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-06-02. The account is most persuasive where Wayne, Stewart and rugby can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as rugby league footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q116503273. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1975, 1976 and 1972.

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 “Wayne Stewart (rugby league)” 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.