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Gunnar Bergstrand

Norwegian handball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ42688934 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gunnar Bergstrand is a Norwegian handball player.

He made his debut on the Norwegian national team in 1958,

and played 5 matches for the national team between 1958 and 1961. He participated at the 1961 World Men's Handball Championship.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gunnar Bergstrand” as norwegian handball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gunnar, Bergstrand and Norwegian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gunnar, Bergstrand and Norwegian providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gunnar Bergstrand”, the useful work is to connect “norwegian handball player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Feb 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q42688934. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 1961.

Critical limits

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

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Gunnar Bergstrand”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gunnar Bergstrand primary sources, Gunnar Bergstrand archive and Gunnar 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 “Gunnar Bergstrand”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gunnar Bergstrand” 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.