Talk:Luís Gama

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mariaa45. Peer reviewers: Aaldridge97, A blinka.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 00:20, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Proposed Ideas

I plan to add more information on the several careers Gama had throughout his life to improve his biography. For example, he has worked as an officer, a clerk, an editor and a lawyer. Also to improve his biography, I will provide detail about his personal life, as he did marry and have a child. I also plan on adding more details about his political views and actions in Brazil. Lastly, I plan to expand more on his literary works and their themes.

Comments

I think this is a good way to start your revision. I like the biographical focus that you're taking.

Jgriffith19 (talk) 18:24, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

References

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates Jr, eds. Africana: The encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Braga-Pinto, César. "The Honor of the Abolitionist and the Shamefulness of Slavery." Luso-Brazilian Review 51, no. 2 (July 2014): 170-199. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 21, 2018).

Conrad, Robert Edgar, 1928. 1972. The destruction of brazilian slavery, 1850-1888. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kennedy, James H. "Luiz Gama: Pioneer of Abolition in Brazil." Journal of Negro History 59, no. 3 (July 1974): 255–267.

Kinsbruner, Jay, Erick Detlef Langer, and Charles Scribner's Sons. 2008. Encyclopedia of latin american history and culture. 2nd;002; ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Santos, Eduardo Antonio Estevam. "Luiz Gama and the racial satire as the transgression poetry: diasporic poetry as counter-narrative to the idea of race." Almanack 11 (2015): 707-727.

Woodard, James P. "Gama, Luiz." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, edited by Colin A. Palmer, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 895-896. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3444700510/GVRL?u=ohlnk162&sid=GVRL&xid=ccdb3a17. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018

Comments on Proposed Edits

Hello! I think you have great ideas for improving this page and your preliminary bibliography looks promising. If I am understanding your proposal correctly, you plan on adding sections on careers, personal life, literary contributions, and political views. These are ambitious edits! It looks like you have supporting information for each proposed additional section, but make sure you are drawing information for each section from multiple sources rather than one or two per section. Ultimately your edits appear to be well thought out at this stage and are great future contributions to Wikipedia. Good Luck! A blinka (talk) 14:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Full Draft

Great job on this draft. I added a couple of wikilinks and fixed the ones that didn't have other pages to go to. If the information is available, see if you can develop the shorter sections a bit more (possibly political career and the intro). Overall this looks good and your tone seems consistent and encyclopedic throughout. A blinka (talk) 00:37, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Comments

I like the sound of your approach, it sounds well balanced. I also think the scope of the project is feasible, due to the fact that you don't have necessarily worry about using neutral language as much since you're covering an actual person. Good luck with your research! Aaldridge97 (talk) 00:08, 2 March 2018 (UTC) Andrew

New comments

I think your structure is good and you've added a lot a good detail. I think you could put more in the intro though, compared to the rest of what you have it looks pretty scarce. Good looking draft! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaldridge97 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Response on Comments

Thanks for the comments all! I will make sure to find more sources to back up what I say and try to focus on each aspect of his life equally. Mariaa45 (talk) 18:35, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 14:51, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

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Luís Gama, circa 1880

• ... that Luís Gama (pictured) was able to have had freed more than 500 enslaved people during the 19th century Brazil, among them 217 in a single case considered the biggest case in the Americas? Source: Benedito, Mouzar (2011). Luiz Gama - o libertador de escravos e sua mãe libertária, Luíza Mahin (in Portuguese) (2 ed.). São Paulo: Expressão Popular. Page: 33. ISBN 978-85-7743-004-8.
  Luiz Gama: A desconhecida ação judicial com que advogado negro libertou 217 escravizados no século 19
  • ALT1: ... that Luís Gama (pictured) was able to have had freed more than 500 enslaved people during the 19th century Brazil? Source: Benedito, Mouzar (2011). Luiz Gama - o libertador de escravos e sua mãe libertária, Luíza Mahin (in Portuguese) (2 ed.). São Paulo: Expressão Popular. Page: 33. ISBN 978-85-7743-004-8.

• Comment: I started to expand this article in August 21 and he is a character that should be more known abroad. The PDF link is from the publisher itself, not an pirated copy. Erick Soares3 (talk) 14:20, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

5x expanded by Erick Soares3 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:20, 1 September 2021 (UTC).

• I'm not sure whether this is a 5x expansion. The version as of August 20 is 980 words, and the version as of August 28 is 4,206 -- although the article looks to have been vastly improved, so I don't expect to encounter any problems there. Have you considered nominating it as a GA? If it's made a GA, it'll immediately become eligible for DYK. jp×g 19:04, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

• Erick Soares3, the article had 6427 prose characters prior to when your expansion began on August 21. A 5x expansion would need therefore to be to 32135 prose characters, and the article currently has 27994 prose characters. You would need to add another 4141 prose characters to reach the 5x expansion. (DYK deals in prose characters, not words.) Do you think you could add that much new material to the article? If not, then doing a GA nomination may indeed be the way to go. Note that as the article expansion started on August 21, it should have been nominated within seven days, by August 28. It is up to jp×g to decide whether four days late on a second nomination should be given an exception. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:41, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello @JPxG and BlueMoonset: I didn't considered to nominate it as an GA, but I will read on it. On the 5x expansion: I didn't wrote that. it was just a thing that showed up when I did the nomination and I thought that it was just an automatic calculus from the template, but by the BlueMoonset reply, is clear that something went wrong. I've took sometime before nominating it because I wanted to finish the book that I was reading to improve the article. Erick Soares3 (talk) 13:23, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

I followed your suggestions and nominated it as an GA. Let's see what happens. Erick Soares3 (talk) 13:44, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Erick Soares3, I see that you just removed the GA nomination. It is still possible for this DYK nomination to be considered if you think you'll be able to do the expansion now. Otherwise, we will have to close it as unsuccessful, but you can always renominate the article for DYK should you eventually succeed in bringing it to GA status. Best of luck, whatever you decide. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:33, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator per this comment on their talk page. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:51, 23 September 2021 (UTC)