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James Vanlandschoot

Belgian bicycle racer

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ974472 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Vanlandschoot (born 26 August 1978 in Bruges) is a Belgian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2015.

Editorial summary

“James Vanlandschoot” enters the record as belgian bicycle racer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Vanlandschoot and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2001, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-08-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around James, Vanlandschoot and Belgian.
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Why this record matters

“James Vanlandschoot” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, James, Vanlandschoot and Belgian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q974472. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2001 and 2015.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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 “James Vanlandschoot” 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.