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Denis Mast

Swiss cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ64853160 ↗
Source-derived summary

Denis Mast (born 4 March 1941) is a Swiss cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 30 kilometre event at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Denis Mast” enters the record as swiss cross-country skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Denis, Mast and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-03-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Denis, Mast and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Denis Mast” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Denis, Mast and Swiss provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q64853160. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941 and 1968.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Denis Mast” 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.