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City on Fire

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ397100
Source-derived summary

City on Fire may refer to:

Film and TV

City on Fire (1979 film), a 1979 Canadian disaster film

City on Fire (1987 film), a 1987 Hong Kong action film

City on Fire (1993 film), a 1993 Taiwan action film

City on Fire (TV series), a 2023 crime drama television series

"City on Fire" (Desperate Housewives)

Literature

City on Fire (Williams novel), a 1997 fantasy novel by Walter Jon Williams

City on Fire (Hallberg novel), a 2015 novel by Garth Risk Hallberg

City on Fire (Winslow novel), a 2022 novel by Don Winslow

City on Fire (Dapiran book), a 2020 nonfiction book by Antony Dapiran about the 2019 Hong Kong protests

Music

"City on Fire", a song from the album Prophet by Swedish rock band Jerusalem.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “City on Fire” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1987, 1993, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where City, Fire and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 May 19, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q397100. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1987, 1993 and 2023.

Critical limits

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

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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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “City on Fire”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow City on Fire primary sources, City on Fire archive and City 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.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “City on Fire”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from City on Fire” 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.