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Víctor Cervantes

Mexican rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ56223554 ↗
Source-derived summary

Víctor Cervantes (born 22 August 1948) is a Mexican rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Víctor Cervantes” as mexican rower. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Víctor, Cervantes and Mexican.

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—1948, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-08-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Víctor, Cervantes and Mexican 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 “Víctor Cervantes”, the useful work is to connect “mexican rower” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q56223554. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 1968.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “Víctor Cervantes” 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.