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Farid Salman

Iranian boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ60194743 ↗
Source-derived summary

Farid Salman Mahdi (Arabic: فريد سلمان مهدي, born 11 March 1957) is an Iraqi boxer. He competed in the men's light flyweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Farid Salman” enters the record as iranian boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Farid, Salman and Iranian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-03-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Farid, Salman and Iranian.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

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 May 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60194743. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Farid Salman” 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.