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Whyalla Playford, South Australia

suburb of Whyalla, South Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ31440697 ↗
Source-derived summary

Whyalla Playford is a suburb of Whyalla in South Australia. It is bounded on the east and south by the Lincoln Highway and on the north by the BHP Whyalla Tramway. It was gazetted in 1967 with the boundaries adjusted in 1975 and 2000.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Whyalla Playford, South Australia” is suburb of Whyalla, South Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Whyalla, Playford and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1975, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Whyalla, Playford and South is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “suburb of Whyalla, South Australia” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q31440697. Authority coordinates are -33.030, 137.570. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1975 and 2000.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Whyalla Playford, South Australia”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Whyalla Playford, South Australia primary sources, Whyalla Playford, South Australia archive and Whyalla 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 “Whyalla Playford, South Australia”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Whyalla Playford, South Australia” 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.