Talk:Dietrich Varez

Source Issues
Sources for this article depend heavily on clippings reproduced on the website, dvarez.com, which appears to be the artist's own site. While citing the subject's own site would not normally be acceptable practice, in this case the site reproduces actual scans of the clippings. These facsimiles appear authentic. Perhaps someone with access to the archives of these newspaper articles, which are not available online, can confirm their authenticity. Until then, and understanding that this is not a particularly controversial topic warranting greater due diligence, I believe we should accept them at face value as valid sources.

One of the references ("The People's Printer") remains problematic. The title appears in the archives of the indicated issue of the magazine, but the article that appears there is not about Varez. I believe this is a mistake at the magazine. The article with that title online bears no relationship to a populist printmaker. Perhaps someone has access to the magazine archives and can clear this up. In the meantime, in the spirit of good faith, I believe it is appropriate to trust the facsimile version. Alawa (talk) 03:40, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree it's not ideal to have links to an article subject's website as the sole set of sources, but as long as the full citation is given (and correct), it might be OK. Many WP articles are referenced to articles/books with no online version available for inspection anyways. That being said, if someone finds independent links to the references in the article, they should be replaced. PDCook (talk) 15:21, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I linked to a newspaper article abstract, and removed one reference that didn't seem to support the text (or was OR). It also led to page on how to buy stuff from the artist, which I'm not comfortable with as a reference. PDCook (talk) 15:35, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I will reference the Damien content better. I am not sure how I decided to point to this webpage- I agree it is not right, and plead error, not OR nor commercialism.  Thanks for the input.Alawa (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2010 (UTC)