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Ana Maria Țicu

Romanian handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ12720588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ana Maria Țicu (née Apipie; born 23 February 1992) is a Romanian handballer for SCM Craiova and the Romanian national team.

She represented Romania at the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship.

She was given the award of Cetățean de onoare ("Honorary Citizen") of the city of Craiova in 2018.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ana Maria Țicu” is romanian handball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maria, Țicu and Romanian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1992, 2020, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-02-23. For this dossier, Maria, Țicu and Romanian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “romanian handball player” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12720588. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2020 and 2018.

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.

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Three-step research path

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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 “Ana Maria Țicu” 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.