Talk:John Ranard

Correspondence
We're told:


 * Three of Ranard's photographs appeared in the exhibition according to correspondence with University of Louisville curator Elizabeth Reilly, although Ranard's name is not mentioned on the website advertising the exhibition.

Where is this correspondence published? If it's not published, it can't be cited ("Unpublished materials are not considered reliable"). -- Hoary (talk) 13:05, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Master's thesis
A lot of this is sourced to a master's thesis. But "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence". What evidence do we have of significant scholarly influence? -- Hoary (talk) 13:05, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Two notes
One note:
 * The organisation itself is not cited because although the Andrei Sakharov Museum is a prestigious institution, it is devoted to issues of "peace, progress and human rights" and does not advertise art works in its possession.

And another:
 * The organisation is not cited. The Open Society Foundation, formerly Open Society Institute, is not in the business of collecting art work although their acquisition of items of art is notable. They do not advertise such acquisitions.

These seem to boil down to: "We're not providing references that you might expect to see, because we can't find them." Well, okay, but I don't remember having seen such comments in any other article. Are they particularly helpful here? (If so, I think they could be simplified; e.g. cut "is a prestigious institution, it is devoted to issues of 'peace, progress and human rights' and".) -- Hoary (talk) 00:27, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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