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Patrick Bick

German footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ2057417 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patrick Bick (born 12 March 1977 in Illingen) is a former German football player who last played for SSV Markranstädt.

Career

He made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for Eintracht Braunschweig on 14 August 2005 when he came on as a substitute for Benjamin Siegert in the 51st minute in a game against LR Ahlen.

Post-retirement

After retiring as a player in 2013, Bick joined Eintracht Braunschweig's staff as the club's chief physiotherapist.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Patrick Bick” is german footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Patrick, Bick and German, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1977, 2005, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-03-12. For this dossier, Patrick, Bick and German is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “german footballer” 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 Jan 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2057417. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2005 and 2013.

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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This entry incorporates text from “Patrick Bick” 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.