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Martin Meier

Swiss bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ50365668 ↗
Source-derived summary

Martin Meier (born 27 April 1984) is a Swiss bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Martin Meier” enters the record as swiss bobsledder. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Martin, Meier and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-04-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Martin, Meier and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Martin Meier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Martin, Meier and Swiss provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q50365668. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2018.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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 “Martin Meier” 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.