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Jean Zinniker

Swiss judoka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ53871200 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean Zinniker (born 26 April 1952) is a Swiss judoka. He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jean Zinniker” as swiss judoka. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1952, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Jean, Zinniker and Swiss can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as swiss judoka. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q53871200. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1980.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jean Zinniker” 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.