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Dafen station

Shenzhen Metro station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5208309 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dafen station (Chinese: 大芬站; pinyin: Dàfēn Zhàn; Jyutping: daai6 fan1 zaam6) is a station on Line 3 of the Shenzhen Metro. It opened on 28 December 2010. It is located on Shenhui Road near Kangda'er Garden and Dafen Oil Painting Village.

Editorial summary

“Dafen station” enters the record as shenzhen Metro station. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dafen, station and Shenzhen can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010-12-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dafen, station and Shenzhen.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5208309. Authority coordinates are 22.617, 114.133. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dafen station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dafen station primary sources, Dafen station archive and Dafen 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 “Dafen station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dafen station” 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.