Wáng Wěi 王暐 (fl. early 12th c.) is known only from the colophon (跋) he affixed in Jiànyán 建炎 4 / gēngxū 庚戌 (1130) to the Dàoshān qīnghuà 道山清話 KR3l0053, which is conventionally — but, as the Sìkù compilers showed, incorrectly — attributed to him. By his own statement he had then attained the court rank of cháofèng dàifū 朝奉大夫 (a zhèngliùpǐn civil rank) and was holding the temple sinecure of zhǔguǎn Bózhōu Míngdàogōng 主管亳州明道宫 (“Manager of the Míngdào Palace at Bózhōu”), having been granted the zǐ jīn yúdài 賜紫金魚袋 (purple robe and golden fish-pouch). His grandfather (先大父) — unnamed in Wáng Wěi’s colophon — had been a long-serving compiler at the Guóshǐ guǎn 國史館 (State History Office) under the late Northern Sòng and the author of three works of bǐjì: the Guǎn mìlù 館秘錄, the Pùshū jì 曝書記, and the present Dàoshān qīnghuà; only the third survived, and only because Wáng Wěi recovered a manuscript from the family of Zēng Zhòngcún 曾仲存 of Nánfēng 南豐 and made his own fair copy “to be transmitted to sons and grandsons” after the manuscripts had been scattered in the Jìngkāng wars of 1126–27. CBDB has no Sòng entry for 王暐 (the homonymous figures in CBDB are three Táng-era 王暐, four Míng-era, and one Qīng-era person; Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual §“Apotropaic names”, erroneously gives the Dàoshān qīnghuà author as the Qīng-era Wáng Wěi 1645–1717, which is a slip — the work is unambiguously Northern-Sòng). No further biographical detail can be recovered.