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William Wightman (Canadian politician)

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

William Hannum Wightman was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1980 who represented the east Toronto riding of Scarborough West.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “William Wightman (Canadian politician)” as canadian politician. 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—1979, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where William, Wightman and Canadian 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 canadian politician. 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 Jul 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 1980.

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.

How to read it

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “William Wightman (Canadian politician)” 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.