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Marc Weller

footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ3288488 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marc Weller (born 27 October 1951) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

He was part of the SC Bastia team that reached the 1978 UEFA Cup Final.

Editorial summary

“Marc Weller” enters the record as footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marc, Weller and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-10-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marc, Weller and footballer.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Marc Weller” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Marc, Weller and footballer 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 Nov 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3288488. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951 and 1978.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  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 “Marc Weller” 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.