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Pantelis Psychas

Greek water polo player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ75341767 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pantelis Psychas (Greek: Παντελής Ψύχας; born 1887, date of death unknown) was a Greek navy officer and aviator, as well as a water polo player. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pantelis Psychas” is greek water polo player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pantelis, Psychas and Greek, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1920, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1887-01-01. For this dossier, Pantelis, Psychas and Greek is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “greek water polo player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Sep 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q75341767. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1920 and 1924.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Pantelis Psychas primary sources, Pantelis Psychas archive and Pantelis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pantelis Psychas” 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.