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Mārtiņš Blūms

Latvian cross-country mountain biker

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ32998828 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mārtiņš Blūms (born 17 October 1995) is a Latvian cross-country mountain biker.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mārtiņš Blūms” as latvian cross-country mountain biker. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-10-17. The account is most persuasive where Mārtiņš, Blūms and Latvian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as latvian cross-country mountain biker. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q32998828. VIAF identifies the subject as 1019158070703908780002. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mārtiņš Blūms”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mārtiņš Blūms primary sources, Mārtiņš Blūms archive and Mārtiņš research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mārtiņš Blūms”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mārtiņš Blūms” 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.