Talk:Maria Ursula Lancastro y Abreu

LGBT?
Why is an LGBT-related category included? Did she identify as LGBT? I don't think cross dressing means someone identifies as LGBT, but perhaps I am overlooking something else here. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * You can remove it if you wish. I added it simply because articles about women cross dressing as men and living as men unusually seem to be given this category in Wikipedia, regardless of gender or sexual orientation - and, of course, it is useful with a category to find articles of these interesting women, who did not conform to the gender roles of their times. If the LGBT-category is the right one for that, I am not sure, so I leave that to you.--Aciram (talk) 22:33, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I changed the category to the broader LGBT "Category:18th century in LGBT history", as we have no indication that she was actually LGBT but her cross-dressing does make her somewhat relevant to it. Asarelah (talk) 13:34, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

How much fiction?
Which one of these women is the real one? Maria Ursula Lancastro y Abreu - Maria Ursula d'Abreu e Lencastro. Both of them are born in Brazil, both in 1882 (just so that they are 18 when their narrative lets them join as a soldier in year 1700: That just means that their birth years are speculation!). Both served in Amboina. None of the articles are well researched anyway, as both articles are short and are inter-linked in a sloppish way with other WP articles. I can find sources for both names on the internet (and others like Maria Úrsula de Abreu e Lencastre), though no ones that I could verify as reliable. As with other women who served in the military in that era (see e.g. Marie Schellinck), there are many legends and falsehoods built around women who (reputedly) distinguished themselves, and even books published before 1900 are possibly only repeating legends. --Enyavar (talk) 17:04, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what is true or false, but one thing I do think it that Maria Ursula Lancastro y Abreu and Maria Ursula d'Abreu e Lencastro are the same person, and one of the articles should be merged with the other. It happens when they are several different spellings/versions of a person's name. One of them should be merged with the other, we cannot have two articles of the same person, but I don't know which name is most correct.--Aciram (talk) 18:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)