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Kamel Taha

Egyptian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ16565166 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kamel Taha (Arabic: كَامِل طٰهٰ; born 1897, date of death unknown) was an Egyptian footballer. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kamel Taha” as egyptian association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kamel, Taha and Egyptian.

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—1897, 1920, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1897. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kamel, Taha and Egyptian providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kamel Taha”, the useful work is to connect “egyptian association football player” 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 Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16565166. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1920 and 1924.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kamel Taha” 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.