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Wilson Lima

Brazilian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ58047696
Source-derived summary

Wilson Miranda Lima (born 26 June 1976) is a Brazilian politician, journalist and the Governor of the state of Amazonas. Lima won the 2018 election with 58% of the vote, defeating PDT incumbent Amazonino Mendes. A member of PSC, Lima assumed office on 1 January 2019.

He is reelected in 2022 for another 4 years term for the Brazil Union (UNIÃO BRASIL) party .

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Wilson Lima” is brazilian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wilson, Lima and Brazilian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2018, 2019, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-06-26. For this dossier, Wilson, Lima and Brazilian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q58047696. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2018, 2019 and 2022.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wilson Lima”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wilson Lima primary sources, Wilson Lima archive and Wilson research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wilson Lima”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Wilson Lima” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.