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XS

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ365137
Source-derived summary

XS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

XS (character), a DC Comics superheroine

XS (manhwa), a South Korean comic by Song Ji-hyung (송지형)

XS (radio station), a defunct station in Neath Port Talbot, Wales

"XS" (song), a 2020 song by Rina Sawayama

XS (video game), a 1997 FPS game made by GT interactive

Xiaolin Showdown, an American animated television series

XS: The Opera Opus (1984-86), a no wave opera

PTS XS, a Taiwanese television channel

Science, technology, and mathematics

XS (Perl), an interface through which computer programs written in Perl can call C language subroutines

Yamaha Motif, a series of synthesizers

XS (EVS), a production server of EVS Broadcast Equipment

Para-Ski XS, a Canadian powered parachute design

Cross section (geometry)

MG XS, the original name of the MG ZS crossover SUV produced by SAIC Motor

iPhone XS, a smartphone produced by Apple Inc.

Editorial summary

“XS” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wikimedia, disambiguation and page can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1997, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“XS” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wikimedia, disambiguation and page provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q365137. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1997 and 1984.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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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  • Locating named sources
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This entry incorporates text from XS” 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.