Talk:Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque

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A fact from Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a study on chemical analysis by Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque (pictured), a Portuguese military officer, scientist and statesman of the 19th century, motivated a special report by two of the most prestigious scientists of the time: Jean-Antoine Chaptal and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac?

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Factual error[edit]

On the public page, his bio says he was born in 1892. This is factually wrong; it was 1792. On the edit page, the date is correct. But incorrect on the public page.

This has by now been dealt with, I believe. Rswarbrick (talk) 23:16, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This page requires attribution[edit]

There are few, if any, references cited in the text of the page. Plenty of sources exist in the bibliography, but there is no indication of which publication pertains to which piece of information.

tanankyo (talk) 04:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Questions raised while editing[edit]

I went through this text, noticing it on the list of copy-edit candidates. While I personally believe the grammar and general writing style is pretty good now (setting myself up for a fall?), I noticed many ambiguities and questions that I couldn't correct because there aren't really any references, let alone publicly available ones, except in Portuguese and sadly I'm limited to English. So I'm putting them up here in case someone can answer them.

The third paragraph of the "Formative Years and marriage" section describes him working for the Royal Observatory from 1813-1814. Was this upon graduation from the Naval Academy? And what is a portionist?
Were the studies that he abandoned in the following paragraph those at the Observatory?
Are the Anais das Ciências e das Letras, mentioned in the last paragraph of this section, really a newspaper? Or is "journal" the correct word for this situation?
In the 3rd paragraph of the "Studies in Paris" section, a work he presented is described. But "simplification of the study of chemical analysis" sounds surprising - is this a quote? Or maybe a misunderstanding? Otherwise, there should probably be more explanation, since it sounds rather odd!
In final paragraph of the "Exile in France..." section, a battle is described and also two expeditions. Is the Battle of Ladeira part of one of the expeditions mentioned or completely separate?
Also in that paragraph, while he never wanted to be paid more than a subaltern, it doesn't in fact say whether he was or not!
In the third paragraph of the "Expedition to Madeira" section, he was not "able to suffer an attack from the major island". Do we take this to mean that he would have been defeated had such an attack been launched against him? Knowing that, why did he bother to stay?
Is the correct Portuguese abbreviation "Dom Pedro" or "D. Pedro"? Currently we have both, and I don't know to which one to unify.

I hope that putting up this list is the best way to preserve these questions. But I'm not sure whether this is a standard way to do things: maybe a good way to check off these is to answer them with ** etc inline and, once a question has been dealt with, to strike through it?

Rswarbrick (talk) 23:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]