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Rubén dos Santos

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2024
Entity authorityQ7376552 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rubén Fernando dos Santos Madruga (born 16 November 1969 in Montevideo) is a former Uruguayan footballer.

International career

Dos Santos made seven appearances for the senior Uruguay national football team from 1991 to 1997.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rubén dos Santos” as footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rubén, Santos 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—1969, 1991, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-11-16. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rubén, Santos and footballer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Dec 5, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7376552. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1991 and 1997.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rubén dos Santos”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rubén dos Santos primary sources, Rubén dos Santos archive and Rubén research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rubén dos Santos”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rubén dos Santos” 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.