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Alan Raphael

Olympic field hockey player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4730935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alan Raphael (26 December 1931 – 22 October 2018) was a Canadian field hockey player who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Alan Raphael” enters the record as olympic field hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alan, Raphael and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 2018, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-12-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alan, Raphael and Olympic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4730935. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931, 2018 and 1964.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Alan Raphael”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Alan Raphael primary sources, Alan Raphael archive and Alan 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 “Alan Raphael”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Alan Raphael” 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.