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Maling station

Shenzhen Metro station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ22101288 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maling station (simplified Chinese: 孖岭站; traditional Chinese: 孖嶺站; pinyin: Mālǐng Zhàn; Jyutping: maa1 ling5 zaam6) is a station of Line 9 and Line 10 of the Shenzhen Metro. Line 9 platforms opened on 28 October 2016 and Line 10 platforms opened on 18 August 2020.

Editorial summary

“Maling station” enters the record as shenzhen Metro station. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maling, station and Shenzhen can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Maling, station and Shenzhen.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Maling station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Maling, station and Shenzhen provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22101288. Authority coordinates are 22.571, 114.063. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2020.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Maling station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Maling station primary sources, Maling station archive and Maling 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 “Maling 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 “Maling 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.