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David Recorbet

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ3018666 ↗
Source-derived summary

David Recorbet (born October 24, 1976) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “David Recorbet” as footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around David, Recorbet and footballer.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-10-24. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with David, Recorbet and footballer providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “David Recorbet”, the useful work is to connect “footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3018666. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “David Recorbet” 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.