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Piotr Pankanin

Polish politician and deputy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ11817921 ↗
Source-derived summary

Piotr Jerzy Pankanin (16 May 1948 – 16 November 2022) was a Polish chemist and politician. A member of Solidarity and later the Labour Union, he served in the Senate from 1991 to 1993 and the Sejm from 1993 to 1997.

Pankanin died on 16 November 2022, at the age of 74.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Piotr Pankanin” as polish politician and deputy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1948, 2022, 1991, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-04-16. The account is most persuasive where Piotr, Pankanin and Polish can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as polish politician and deputy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11817921. VIAF identifies the subject as 315230681. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2022, 1991 and 1993.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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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 “Piotr Pankanin” 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.