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Jean-Paul Ndeki

Cameroonian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ1026978 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean-Paul Ndeki (born 27 October 1982 in Cameroon) is a footballer who last plays for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya.

His brother, Edouard Oum Ndeki, was a professional footballer who played in Turkey and Greece.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jean-Paul Ndeki” as cameroonian footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jean-Paul, Ndeki and Cameroonian.

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—1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-10-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jean-Paul, Ndeki and Cameroonian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jean-Paul Ndeki”, the useful work is to connect “cameroonian footballer” 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 Dec 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1026978. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean-Paul Ndeki” 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.