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Ali Kamal Etman

Egyptian footballer (1941-2020)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ57585482 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ali Kamal Etman (6 June 1941 – 18 June 2020) was an Egyptian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ali Kamal Etman” is egyptian footballer (1941-2020). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kamal, Etman and Egyptian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 2020, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-06-06. For this dossier, Kamal, Etman and Egyptian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “egyptian footballer (1941-2020)” 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

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 Oct 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q57585482. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 2020 and 1964.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

Best used for
  • 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 “Ali Kamal Etman”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ali Kamal Etman primary sources, Ali Kamal Etman archive and Kamal 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 “Ali Kamal Etman”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ali Kamal Etman” 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.