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You Were Meant for Me

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2012
Entity authorityQ8057586 ↗
Source-derived summary

You Were Meant for Me may refer to:

You Were Meant for Me (film), a 1948 musical starring Dan Dailey

"You Were Meant for Me" (1929 song), a pop standard written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown

"You Were Meant for Me" (Jewel song)

"You Were Meant for Me", a 1978 single by Donny Hathaway (not included in any studio albums), written by William James Peterkin.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “You Were Meant for Me” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1929, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Meant, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 3, 2012. The linked authority identifier is Q8057586. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948, 1929 and 1978.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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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  • Locating named sources
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  2. Expand the search: follow You Were Meant for Me primary sources, You Were Meant for Me archive and Meant 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.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “You Were Meant for Me” 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.