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Cătălin Tofan

Romanian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ5202929 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cătălin Tofan (born 23 December 1969) is a Romanian retired football player. His only senior club was Oțelul Galați for which he scored 25 goals in 390 matches, being a legend of "the Steelworkers". After his retirement he was appointed as an executive at the club, position he quit in January 2010.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cătălin Tofan” as romanian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1969, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-12-23. The account is most persuasive where Cătălin, Tofan and Romanian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as romanian footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5202929. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 2010.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  • Establishing names and roles
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  • Locating cited institutions
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Cătălin Tofan” 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.