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György Raffa

Hungarian ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ1245241 ↗
Source-derived summary

György Raffa (born May 16, 1938) is a former Hungarian ice hockey player. He played for the Hungary men's national ice hockey team at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

Editorial summary

“György Raffa” enters the record as hungarian ice hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what György, Raffa and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-05-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around György, Raffa and Hungarian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1245241. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938 and 1964.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow György Raffa primary sources, György Raffa archive and György 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

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “György Raffa” 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.