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Song Hwa-son

North Korean Olympic female speed skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ18069659 ↗
Source-derived summary

Song Hwa-son (born 26 February 1968, Korean: 송화선) is a North Korean speed skater. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Song Hwa-son” as north Korean Olympic female speed skater. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1988, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-02-26. The account is most persuasive where Song, Hwa-son and North can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as north Korean Olympic female speed skater. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Nov 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18069659. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1988 and 1992.

Critical limits

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

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 “Song Hwa-son” 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.