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Bill Pataky

Canadian basketball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ4910434 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Andrew Pataky (May 12, 1930 – June 24, 2004) was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, he was part of the Canadian basketball team, which was eliminated after the group stage in the 1952 tournament. He played all six matches. Pataky attended the University of Western Ontario and graduated from the University of Windsor in 1957.

Editorial summary

“Bill Pataky” enters the record as canadian basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bill, Pataky and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 2004, 1952, 1957—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-05-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, Pataky and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4910434. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 2004, 1952 and 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Pataky” 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.