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Dongguang station

station of Chengdu Metro

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ104766202 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dongguang Station is a metro station in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It was opened on December 18, 2020 with the opening of Chengdu Metro Line 6 and Line 8.

Editorial summary

“Dongguang station” enters the record as station of Chengdu Metro. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dongguang, station and Chengdu 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—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dongguang, station and Chengdu.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104766202. Authority coordinates are 30.622, 104.096. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Dongguang station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dongguang station primary sources, Dongguang station archive and Dongguang 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 “Dongguang station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dongguang 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.