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Shilaoren Beach station

qingdao Metro station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ45734953 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shilaoren Beach (Chinese: 石老人浴场) is a station on Line 2 of the Qingdao Metro. It opened on 10 December 2017.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shilaoren Beach station” as qingdao Metro station. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shilaoren, Beach and station.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shilaoren, Beach and station providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Shilaoren Beach station”, the useful work is to connect “qingdao Metro station” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q45734953. Authority coordinates are 36.093, 120.460. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Shilaoren Beach station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shilaoren Beach station primary sources, Shilaoren Beach station archive and Shilaoren 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 “Shilaoren Beach station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shilaoren Beach 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.