Talk:First Portuguese Republic

message: I have recently been reading a number of Portuguese history pages as I knew little on this subject. Unfortunately I found this article extremely difficult to follow. Many sentences make little sense or have a stilted, obtuse construction. Far too many bracketed name and date references disrupt reading. 
eg:
"Sidonismo, also known as Dezembrismo (Eng. Decemberism), aroused a strong interest among historians, largely as a result of the elements of modernity that it contained (José Brandão, 1990; Ramalho, 1998; Ribeiro de Meneses, 1998, Armando Silva, 1999; Samara, 2003 and Santos, 2003)"
"Nevertheless, much has been written about the crisis and fall of the regime and the 28 May movement (Cruz, 1986; Cabral, 1993; Rosas, 1997; Martins, 1998; Pinto, 2000; Afonso, 2001). The First Republic continues to be the subject of an intense debate which is impossible to summarise in these paragraphs. A recent historiographical balance sheet elaborated by Armando Malheiro da Silva (2000) is a good introduction into this debate"
I gave up.
Tiddy 05:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality of article 

message: It needs to be less meta-discussion of recent trends in historiography, and more about what actually happened during the period. AnonMoos 04:56, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Basic focus of article

message: I think the section marked "The Republic" is copyrighted elsewhere.  
It comes from an article entitled "The Political History of Twentieth-Century Portugal" and was published in the E-Journal of Portuguese History Here is the link to the article:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue2/pdf/baioa.pdf
The text comes from the first few pages.
I don't know if the author posted it himself.  I'm not the copyright holder, but I did run across the article and it looked a little suspect.  If the author did post it here, my mistake.
Cheers!
Mwinslett 00:08, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I highly doubt the author posted it, and hence the text should be rewritten or removed due to copyright infringement. The original text is by what seems to be three different professors at three different universities. It is even clearly stated that the paper was copyrighted. KristofferAG (talk) 12:38, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely agree. I read the Brown article (above) when I came across it and immediately thought infringement issue. Having edited several articles on the people and events during the period, I have been meaning to take a stab at a revision. The question that arises: whether blanking the mitigating content, would result in no article at all. My first impulse is to completely delete it, but I am already editing a few things, and the subject is so significant that it would need some time to completely re-write. Ruben JC (Zeorymer) 14:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possibly copyright infringement? 

message: :Copied from WP:RD/H for processing. --Ghirla-трёп- 15:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The term refers to the First Republic, 1910 to 1926, which was notoriously unstable. In its sixteen years, it had forty-five governments. As you say, the Nightmare Republic led to the New State, which lasted from 1926 to 1974. That was certainly stable but was not exactly a model of liberal democracy. Xn4 23:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There we have the Rolls Royce answer, supplementing my pedestrian shorthand! All I feel able to add is that once, long ago, an old man with a beard told me that in the 1920s, as a tribute to the otherworldliness of Portugal, someone opened a low dive in Paris called "le Grand Hôtel de l'Univers et du Portugal". I should like to think this is true, but I have never found any trace of it. Xn4 02:00, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What a pity!  Clio the Muse 05:13, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nightmare Republic 

message: What evidence is there for the threat of a spanish invasion as to one of the reasons why Portugal entered World War 1?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.33.138.221 (talk) 05:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Threat of Spanish Invasion? 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Support: per explanation above. --lTopGunl (talk) 10:43, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: How do I connect "Flag" with Flag of Portugal? Thanks! Mts-Lisboa (talk) 15:12, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: *anyone out there? Mts-Lisboa (talk) 20:06, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag