Talk:Peter Doroshenko

From external links section

 * WhatsonKiev-News (2008)
 * Baltic's new director unveils a vision of skateboards, football and art in the lavatories - The Guardian (2005)
 * Dazzling and a bit bespangled - The Journal (2007)

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Beryl Cook
The statement that Doroshenko organised an exhibition of Beryl Cook's work is disputed. The reference provided (a Guardian review of the exhibition) does not mention Doroshenko's name at all. Is a better reference available? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

This quote is from the official press release from Baltic's own website (it's on a pdf file, but a search under archive.batlicmill.com comes up with it):

Peter Doroshenko, Director of BALTIC commented “Beryl Cook is one of the best self-taught artists in Britain and her work captures the essence of every day British life. This exhibition enables BALTIC to appeal to a much broader audience encouraging people who may not otherwise visit BALTIC to experience this show and then explore other less familiar work.”

4stones (talk) 22:27, 8 June 2011 (UTC)4stones


 * Thanks for 4stones for providing a source for this (it's not easy to even edit this article when I'm a fine art ignoramus... although I have been round the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, does that help?). All fixed from a factual point of view, really. Some minor thoughts about layout, emphasis etc, follow. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:53, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Neutrality dispute
This article's neutrality has been challenged, mainly by unregistered (IP address) editors. As it is a biography of a living person, we must follow the WP:BLP policy. That doesn't mean we have to hide all criticism and only present positive things, but it does mean we need to write conservatively, to demand very good sourcing, and to be neutral in our wording and in our approach.

I have added in the text (supported by very strong references that were already provided, including several broadsheet UK newspapers) the description of Doroshenko's tenure at the Baltic being "controversial". It's open to argument and discussion whether this is a misrepresentation of the balance of views of reliable sources; or - an alternative option - whether it's WP:UNDUE WEIGHT. Or it might be both.

The best way to establish any of these options is to provide links (or offline references) to reliable sources with contrary views, here on this talk page.

There also seems to be dispute about the mention of Beryl Cook. The Beryl Cook exhibition, and Doroshenko defending it, was mentioned at considerable length in several UK broadsheet newspapers. It may be given undue weight in this biography, so let's discuss that too. A list of exhibitions organised by Doroshenko is provided; why is Beryl Cook the only one that is wikilinked? Do none of the others have Wikipedia pages?

A note for anyone who normally edits without a Wikipedia account; you currently cannot edit the page itself, but please do give your views here on this page, as this is where the future of the article is decided. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)


 * re Beryl Cook - good point about the links and refs to other artists. Many of them are quite well known and will have wiki pages and other refs - I'll insert some.  4stones (talk) 16:38, 11 June 2011 (UTC)4stones