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Hana Doušová

Czech basketball player (1949–2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ3782945 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hana Doušová (5 March 1949 – 15 September 2023) was a Czech basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Doušová died on 15 September 2023, at the age of 74.

Editorial summary

“Hana Doušová” enters the record as czech basketball player (1949–2023). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hana, Doušová and Czech 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—1949, 2023, 1976—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1949-03-05, 1958-09-09—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hana, Doušová and Czech.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hana Doušová” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hana, Doušová and Czech 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 Mar 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3782945. VIAF identifies the subject as 3851170186296224400007. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2023 and 1976.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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