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Hardwire

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ5656495 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hardwire or hardwired may refer to:

Electrical wiring

Hardwired control unit, a part of a computer's central processing unit

In computer programming, a kludge to temporarily or quickly fix a problem

Wired communication

In arts and entertainment:

"Hardwire", a song by Metric, from the 2007 album Grow Up and Blow Away

Hard Wired, a 1995 album by the band Front Line Assembly

Hardwired, a book series by Walter Jon Williams, including the 1986 science fiction novel Hardwired

Hardwired, a pre-release version of the 1994 video game Red Zone

Hardwired (film), a 2009 action film

Hardwired...

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1995, 1986, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hardwire, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5656495. The first chronological checks are 2007, 1995, 1986 and 1994.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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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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This entry incorporates text from “Hardwire” 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.