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Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ108864814 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Philippines participated at the 10th Southeast Asian Games held from 21 to 30 September 1979 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games” as sporting event delegation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Philippines, Games and sporting.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Philippines, Games and sporting 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 “Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games”, the useful work is to connect “sporting event delegation” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q108864814. The first chronological checks are 1979.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games primary sources, Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games archive and Philippines 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 “Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Philippines at the 1979 SEA Games” 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.