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Apia Muri

Papua New Guinean basketball player (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ27734174 ↗
Source-derived summary

Apia Muri (born May 14, 1988), is a Papua New Guinean professional basketball player. He is one of the country's most prominent basketball figures.

He led Papua New Guinea's national basketball team all the way to the bronze medal match of the 2015 Pacific Games, where he recorded most minutes, points, rebounds and blocks for his team.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Apia Muri” as papua New Guinean basketball player (born 1988). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Apia, Muri and Papua.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-05-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Apia, Muri and Papua providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Apia Muri”, the useful work is to connect “papua New Guinean basketball player (born 1988)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jan 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q27734174. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2015.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Apia Muri primary sources, Apia Muri archive and Apia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Apia Muri” 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.