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Empty Sections
 Should the empty sections in this biography just be removed?   
Not really. If you notice, all of them are linked to articles that focus on every aspect of Pedro II's life: from his birth until his death and even after (Legacy). Right now I am working on them. One (early years) has been raised to GA. Another one (decline and fall) is being reviewed and might become GA. Once all are written and are considered GA I will work on Pedro II's article itself based on those focused articles. Of course if someone else wants to do that on my place, he or she can fell free to to it. Regards,   

National Assembly
The article contains at present 8 references to ""National Assembly"". No political body existed by that name in the Empire of Brazil. The Brazilian imperial parliament was called ""Assembléia Geral"" (General Assembly). The General Assembly was a bicameral legislature, comprising the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies (see Political Constitution of the Empire of Brazil, arts. 13 and 14). Accordingly, I propose that references to ""National Assembly"" should be changed to references the General Assembly. Wikipedia should not invent names for the political institutions of a country189.122.211.125  .

When creating a section in an article's talk page, you should do it at the bottom.
The name ""Assembléia Geral"" can also be easily translated to National Assembly. There are authors who use ""Regulating Power"" but also ""Moderating Power"" in reference to ""Poder Moderador"" and sometimes is not the best to make a direct translation. The other articles about Brazilian imperial history also use the translation ""National Assembly"".   

I have found both ""National Assembly"" and ""General Assembly"" used in references. ""National Assembly"" seems to have a long history in 19th century English-language press and other accounts. I assume that ""National Assembly"" was used to distinguish this assembly from other types of assemblies (i.e., not the national legislature) for the benefit of their English-language audience. I have introduced the Portuguese title for the assembly at the points where it would first be seen by readers. Readers can decide the translation for themselves.   talk 

Speech from the Throne paining
In the painting by Pedro Américo (called Speech from the Throne), the Emperor is portrayed not actually delivering the Speech, but standing, before seating on the Throne to deliver the speech. So I propose that the caption of the painting should not say that the emperor is portrayed ""delivering"" the Speech, but ""about to deliver"" it. However, given that prior edits on this point have generated confusion, I will post this proposal here and wait until tomorrow. If there is no objection then I'll make the change. It seems to me that the editor Lecen had finally agreed that the use of ""delivering"" in the caption did not reflect the reality of the painting, but now another editor (Astynax) has again resorted to the use of that language when making an edit intended to reduce the size of the caption. I agree with Astynax that the mention ""in the opening of the General Assembly"", can be suppressed, but I submit that to return to the word ""delivering"" is misleading. 189.122.211.125  

One more time: when you create a section, you must do it at the BOTTOM of the talk page. There is no reason to be so precise about the caption of the image. It is not necessary to have him holding a piece of paper in the picture to have the right to write ""delivering"". What matter is that he was dressed in regalia due to the Speech of the Throne. That's it. If there is a painting of a boy with a book opened but he is not reading it yet does not mean that we can not write its capiton as ""Boy studying"". If you do want to help Wikipedia, start writing other articles related to Brazilian imperial history. There are plenty that have few to no info. Also, the wording used on this article and several others related to it - tha are rated Good Articles - on Assembléia Geral is National Assembly. It can not be written ""General Assembly"" on a caption wh