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Touch Nol

Cambodian boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ25540813 ↗
Source-derived summary

Touch Nol (born 3 January 1941) is a Cambodian boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the 1964 Summer Olympics, he defeated Brian Anderson of Ireland, before losing to Eddie Blay of Ghana.

Editorial summary

“Touch Nol” enters the record as cambodian boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Touch, Cambodian and boxer 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—1941, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-01-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Touch, Cambodian and boxer.
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Why this record matters

“Touch Nol” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Touch, Cambodian and boxer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q25540813. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941 and 1964.

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.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Touch Nol” 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.