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 What I think is a waste of time, is asking for things that makes no sense. First what you said was this: ""You'd need to show that reliable independent sources habitually refer to Ms. Furtado as a ""Portuguese Canadian""."" 
 Correct me if I am wrong.  You were given 24 reliable secondary independent sources with the term ""portuguese canadian"" and now you change your mind? 
 What other people said was this []: 

 User Morenooso: ""She would have needed a dual birth certificate. Just being recognized or automatically being given dual citizenship is not good enough."" 
 User KWW  ""Show that Canada has recognized a claim made by Nelly Furtado to Portuguese citizenzhip, and it goes in."" Canada made a claim and KWW changed  his mind. 

 Now what you are saying is: ""we go by what reliable independent secondary sources say"" 
 What about what WIKIPEDIA says:Wikipedia:No original research 

  
 [...]. All interpretive claims, analyses, or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary source, rather than original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors. 
 [...] and should be discussed on article talk pages. 

 [...]Historical documents such as diaries are primary sources.Further examples include archeological artifacts, census results, video or transcripts of surveillance, public hearings, trials, or ;[...] 

 * The University of California, Berkeley library offers this definition: ""Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period. Primary sources were either created during the time period being studied, or were created at a later date by a participant in the events being studied (as in the case of memoirs) and they reflect the individual viewpoint of a participant or observer."" 

 ::: Primary sources that have been reliably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them.[...] 

 * Secondary sources are second-hand accounts, at least one step removed from an event. They rely for their material on primary sources, often making analytic or evaluative claims about them.[...] 

 ::: Wikipedia articles {{fontcolor|red|usually} rely on material from secondary sources. Articles may include analytic or evaluative claims only if these have been published by a reliable secondary source. 

  

 According to the above wikipedia policy: 

 :""Well I just got my Portugese passport, so maybe I'll go back there, but it would be fun to emigrate somewhere chilled-out, like the Caribbean.""My Life in Travel: Nelly Furtado. The Independent   and so is this one: ""Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist, who also holds Portuguese citizenship""Nelly Furtado site is now at nellykimfurtado.com     Vibe Jul 2001. pg46 

 :;  ;;   etc ,etc and etc, all the other souces I posted. 

 This discussion comes back from 2007, 3 years now, when the user Opinoso ,a