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A Man of Passion

album by Dalvanius Prime

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ4658101 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Man of Passion is a greatest hits album released by New Zealand Māori singer Dalvanius in 2003. The album was released after his death in 2002.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A Man of Passion” is album by Dalvanius Prime. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Passion, album and Dalvanius, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. For this dossier, Passion, album and Dalvanius is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Dalvanius Prime” 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

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4658101. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2002.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A Man of Passion”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A Man of Passion primary sources, A Man of Passion archive and Passion 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 “A Man of Passion”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “A Man of Passion” 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.