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Victório Ferraz

Olympic sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ17579971 ↗
Source-derived summary

Victório dos Reis Ferraz (27 January 1924 – 3 June 2006) was a Brazilian sailor who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Ferraz died in Campinas on 3 June 2006, at the age of 82.

Editorial summary

“Victório Ferraz” enters the record as olympic sailor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Victório, Ferraz and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 2006, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-01-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Victório, Ferraz and Olympic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Victório Ferraz” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Victório, Ferraz and Olympic 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 Dec 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17579971. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1924, 2006 and 1948.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Victório Ferraz primary sources, Victório Ferraz archive and Victório 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.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Victório Ferraz” 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.