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Dave Mann (archer)

Canadian archer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ1173276 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dave Mann (born 1 February 1957) is a Canadian archer. He competed in the men's individual event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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“Dave Mann (archer)” enters the record as canadian archer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dave, Mann and archer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-02-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dave, Mann and archer.
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“Dave Mann (archer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dave, Mann and archer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1173276. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dave Mann (archer)” 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.