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Oscar Diesel

Paraguayan athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ21858344 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oscar Diesel (born 19 September 1961) is a Paraguayan athlete. He competed in the men's long jump and the men's triple jump at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Oscar Diesel” enters the record as paraguayan athlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oscar, Diesel and Paraguayan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1961, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-09-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oscar, Diesel and Paraguayan.
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Why this record matters

“Oscar Diesel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oscar, Diesel and Paraguayan 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 Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21858344. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961 and 1984.

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 “Oscar Diesel” 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.