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COI & Refs

Quoting User:Oshwah: "The Master doesn't have any close or personal motivations or ties with the subject, COI isn't violated." That being the case, it seems the problem is whether what has been written accurately reflects the sources and whether or not it is neutral. It would seem the best course of action would be to go through the references and compare to the current content of the article. Since there are a number of vested parties, dividing and conquering seems appropriate. I'm willing to take a look at refs 4, 5, & 18 since I know a little French. If @The Master: documents specifically which news paper clippings he got from the artist, that would greatly help double checking them. 35.1.160.134 (talk) 19:39, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here is potentially a new reference: http://www.lindependant.fr/2017/09/20/petite-caminade-pour-le-patrimoine-local,3053366.php 35.1.160.134 (talk) 20:00, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence "French newspaper L'Indépendant describes his work as being influenced by modern painters Gerhard Richter and Ross Bleckner, but also by Caravaggio and Rembrandt.[5]" accurately reflects what the source says; it a decent translation of it. 35.1.160.134 (talk) 20:03, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The place where ref 4 is used is also accurate to the source. 35.1.160.134 (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The link for ref 18 is broke. Here is a working one: http://www.lindependant.fr/2015/12/08/la-remise-du-fada,2125635.php Again, it is accurate. 35.1.160.134 (talk) 20:09, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ref 3 appears fine as well. I cannot find an online version of 7 or 8. The magazine cited in ref 8 exists, but the digital content only dates to 2016. Plus "The Haute Couture" seems to be a regular column; so, might be tad hard to pin down the exact article TD is mentioned in if the column is published more than once per year.

All in all, it appears this article is in need of improvement, but it does reliably reflect the resources. I highly doubt there are COI or neutrality issues. Then again, I only looked through a portion of the refs. 35.1.160.134 (talk) 20:35, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There appears to be scant information about this fellow from reliable secondary sources. Here are a few refs for the community to sort out whether or not they should replace some of the contested sources in the current version of the article.

Welp, I've poked around as much as I care to. Hope this helps settle things. Maybe someone with public library access in Austin TX can check the statesman refs. 35.1.160.134 (talk) 20:44, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have the PDFs of the offline sources anymore, but here is a link to the AboutUS Magazine piece [1]. And a link to the ppaper piece (cover only) [2]. The Austin-American Statesman stuff is available on newspapers.com, but I can't upload the copyrighted clipping per their TOS. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 20:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]