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Luis Koster

Uruguayan basketball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2024
Entity authorityQ3840369 ↗
Source-derived summary

Luis Eduardo Koster Peña (24 March 1942 – 14 November 2021) was a Uruguayan basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He died on 14 November 2021, at the age of 79.

Editorial summary

“Luis Koster” enters the record as uruguayan basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Luis, Koster and Uruguayan 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—1942, 2021, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-03-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Luis, Koster and Uruguayan.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Luis Koster” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Luis, Koster and Uruguayan 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 Dec 5, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3840369. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2021 and 1964.

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