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Willie Jensen

American baseball player (1889-1917)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ8021600 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Christian Jensen (November 17, 1889 – March 27, 1917) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in the majors, 1912 for the Detroit Tigers and 1914 for the Philadelphia Athletics.

Editorial summary

“Willie Jensen” enters the record as american baseball player (1889-1917). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Willie, Jensen and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 1917, 1912, 1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1889-11-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Willie, Jensen and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Willie Jensen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Willie, Jensen and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Q8021600. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889, 1917, 1912 and 1914.

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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Willie Jensen” 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.