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Jozef Dobrotka

Slovak handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ3704912 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jozef Dobrotka (born October 23, 1952) is a Slovak former handball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Bojnice.

In 1976 he was part of the Czechoslovak team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played all five matches and scored nine goals.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jozef Dobrotka” as slovak handball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-10-23. The account is most persuasive where Jozef, Dobrotka and Slovak can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as slovak handball player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3704912. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1976.

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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  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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This entry incorporates text from “Jozef Dobrotka” 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.