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Walter de Paula

Brazilian fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ7966516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Walter de Paula (5 March 1916 – 31 May 1998) was a Brazilian épée fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Walter de Paula” as brazilian fencer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Walter, Paula and Brazilian.

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—1916, 1998, 1948, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-03-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Walter, Paula and Brazilian 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 “Walter de Paula”, the useful work is to connect “brazilian fencer” 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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7966516. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1998, 1948 and 1952.

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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 source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Walter de Paula” 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.