There is a parallel article about her: Nzingha. Andres 00:16, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Ann Nzinga Mbande Merger
I requested a merger from the author of the Nzingha article, Pandora a few weeks ago but I have not had a response. I went ahead and merged the text with the article a few weeks ago. The problem with Nzinga is that she has so many different names and even more surnames, the most common spelling is Nzinga; but that is also a first name of many other people, sometimes her surname Mbande or royal title Ngola are included in her name.
When I created the article Ann Nzinga Mbande, I tried to be as specific in the title as possible to avoid confusion. I also created several redirects to various spellings. Unfortunately, I had never come across the spelling Nzingha, interestingly it is the second most common speling, before and did not discover the previous article. I would like to propose that Nzingha become a redirect page to Ann Nzinga Mbande, since the text there has already been merged and the title is more specific.
--JCarriker 05:48, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
- If her name as the Queen was Nzinga, and the other names are necessary just to identify her, then perhaps the best title would be Nzinga of Ndongo, according the nomenclature guidelines of Wikipedia.
- If you are sure all information in Nzingha has been merged, then just make it a redirect page, delete the merger note and notice that under Wikipedia:Duplicate articles.
- I think "Nzinga" could be a disambiguation page (there are also different places called Nzinga, and Nzinga Hill, and probably some institutions are called after her). I think we need not mention people whose first name is Nzinga, but we probably should mention Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga, maybe Sekile Nzinga-Johnson. The name Nzinga also was given to a gorilla.
- I found the following alternate names: Queen Nzinga, Nzinga I, Queen Nzinga Mdongo, Nzinga Mbandi, Jinga, Singa, Zhinga, Ana Nzinga, NZinga (?), Ngola Nzinga, Nzinga of Matamba (plus German Nzinga von Matamba), Nzinga Mbandi, Queen Nzingha of Ndongo, Ann Nzingha, Nxingha, Mbande Ana Nzingha, Ann Nzingha. Perhaps all of them should be redirects. I would also list them (or at least different spellings of Nzinga) in the article, as this is important information. Andres 08:52, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I would like to learn which territories Ndongo comprised? As I see, Matamba is different? And is it right to call her Queen of Angola? There are no articles about Ndongo and Matamba here. Andres 08:52, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)