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Ru Guang

Chinese archer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ2171430 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ru Guang (Chinese: 汝光, born 1 November 1955) is a Chinese archer. He competed in the men's individual and team events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ru Guang” is chinese archer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Guang, Chinese and archer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1955, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-11-01. For this dossier, Guang, Chinese and archer is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “chinese archer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2171430. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1955 and 1988.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ru Guang” 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.