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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ354951
Source-derived summary

Listen may refer to:

The action of listening

Central auditory system listening is how the brain processes what you hear

Listening behaviour types in human communication

Computing

LISTEN, a TCP connection state on the server side indicating a port waiting for new client connections

Listen server, a type of game server

listen(), a function provided by the Berkeley sockets API

Project LISTEN, developing reading-tutorial software using speech recognition

Music

Albums

Listen (C21 album), 2004

Listen (Christy Moore album), 2009

Listen (Cindy Morgan album), 1996

Listen (David Guetta album), 2014

Listen (Doug Raney album), 1981

Listen (Emanuel and the Fear album), 2010

Listen (A Flock of Seagulls album), 1983

Listen (Jordan Rudess album), 1993

Listen (The Kooks album), 2014

Listen (Paul Rogers album), 2002

Listen (Tim Bowman Jr. album), 2016

Listen (TQ album), 2004

Listen (EP), by Stonefree, 2004

Listen: The Very Best Of, by Herbs, 2002

Listen: The Very Best of Jenny Morris, 2004

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Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Listen” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Listen, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2009, 1996, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Listen, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Listen”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q354951. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2009, 1996 and 2014.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Listen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Listen primary sources, Listen archive and Listen 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.

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This entry incorporates text from Listen” 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.