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Chen Xiaoli

Chinese basketball player (born 1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ715403
Source-derived summary

Chen Xiaoli (simplified Chinese: 陈晓丽; traditional Chinese: 陳曉麗; pinyin: Chén Xiǎolì; born February 20, 1981 or 1982 in Fuxin, Liaoning) is a female Chinese basketball player who was part of the teams that won gold medals at the 2002 Asian Games, the 2006 Asian Games, and the 2010 Asian Games. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chen Xiaoli” as chinese basketball player (born 1982). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1982, 2002, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-02-20. The account is most persuasive where Chen, Xiaoli and Chinese can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as chinese basketball player (born 1982). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q715403. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1982, 2002 and 2006.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Chen Xiaoli”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Chen Xiaoli primary sources, Chen Xiaoli archive and Chen 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 “Chen Xiaoli”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Chen Xiaoli” 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.