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Manfred Trauten

East German boxer (* 1958)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ60195432
Source-derived summary

Manfred Trauten (born 5 July 1958) is a German boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Manfred Trauten” is east German boxer (* 1958). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Manfred, Trauten and East, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1958, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-07-05. For this dossier, Manfred, Trauten and East is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “east German boxer (* 1958)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60195432. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958 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.

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This entry incorporates text from Manfred Trauten” 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.