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Eirik Paulsen

Norwegian ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5349861 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eirik Paulsen (born 21 May 1970) is a Norwegian former ice hockey player. He was born in Stavanger, Norway and played for the club Viking IK. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Eirik Paulsen” is norwegian ice hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Eirik, Paulsen and Norwegian, 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—1970, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-05-21. For this dossier, Eirik, Paulsen and Norwegian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “norwegian ice hockey player” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5349861. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1992.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Eirik Paulsen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Eirik Paulsen primary sources, Eirik Paulsen archive and Eirik research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Eirik Paulsen”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Eirik Paulsen” 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.