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1994 World Fencing Championships

international fencing competition

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ1399732 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1994 World Fencing Championships were held from 3 July to 8 July 1994 in Athens, Greece.

Editorial summary

“1994 World Fencing Championships” enters the record as international fencing competition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Fencing and Championships can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Fencing and Championships.
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Why this record matters

“1994 World Fencing Championships” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, Fencing and Championships provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1399732. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “1994 World Fencing Championships” 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.