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Her Russian name

With patronymic, Daria Alexandrovna Zhukova, aka Dasha --76.175.2.229 (talk) 03:24, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Is any of this fair or true? It reads like a PR piece.

This girl is a "philanthropist," "designer," "editor," and "entrepreneur"? Considering that none of her endeavors appear to have had any significance, nor that she spent time or effort building any of them, it seems they're simply things purchased by her boyfriend. The whole thing reads like a puff piece for a dilettante.

Any comments? If no-one objects, in a few days I'll revise this to simply say that she's the girlfriend of Roman Abramovich, identify her organizations, and say that none are noteworthy in themselves.

50.138.1.245 (talk) 01:36, 22 January 2014 (UTC)a

No-one has objected

So I am de-pring this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.138.1.245 (talk) 01:07, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

After I de-pr'd the page

Someone reverted it. I proposed de-pr'ing it here, there were no objections, I wanted a few weeks, and then I made the changes. Again no objections. Then a user, who has made no other contributions to wiki ever, reverted the entire article. The edits I had made principally removed claims that Ms. Zhukova is a philanthropist or entrepreneur, none of which have any foundation or citation or support. The purported reason for the reversion was that the article had "irrelevant" material about Roman Abramovich, a mobster.

This is ridiculous, people... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:3:1480:106:6578:3D0D:C649:5475 (talk) 07:00, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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Anonymous users abusing this page to use it as a PR piece for the subject

This is the second time I've found that a user reverted the article to one filled with weasel words, PR claims, unsourced claims, and nonsense.

Each time the user does so without discussion on the talk board, and without identifying the nature or reason for the edit.

This is, obviously, an affiliate of the subject attempting to manipulate the page.

If it happens again I will ask for a note to be added to it that the subject repeatedly tried to edit her page, and ask that the page then be locked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djcheburashka (talk • contribs) 19:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Three things that perhaps need to go back in...

I appreciate how much we've trimmed out the page. There are a couple things that I think we do want to either put in, or take out though:

1. Some reference to the art issue. This person is really only notable because of the mini-scandal over the allegedly racist chairs.
2. Zhukov's connection to arms trading. If this was a Westerner, I might feel differently. For a Russian of her time period, though, the connection to the early-1990s oil & arms-smuggling trade provides important context. It means, among other things, that her family was aligned with Yeltsin and the first generation of post-Soviet "oligarchs." To the extent this person is notable at all, that's actually an important detail because that faction was aligned against the second generation oligarchs as well at the Putin faction, and Abramovich seems to be one of the only figures who successfully transitioned from the second generation to the Putinites. Calling him an "oil trader" is also just inaccurate.
3. The organizations. The issue with these is that there's no reliable sourcing that they actually exist. The only references to each are in the others' press materials or materials distributed by them in connection with interviews with Zhukova. My preference was to take them out entirely, but I didn't think people would go for that. I suggest either taking them entirely or, better, including some form of note to clarify that while cited, the reliability of the existence of those entities is doubtful.

Djcheburashka (talk) 01:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

• I don't know if I can answer in great detail since I never saw the article until yesterday. I'm looking at this version right now, and when I saw that I put on my BLP hat.

1. Comments like "However, with the exception of a three-month period with one magazine, none of Zhukova's organizations appear to have any existence independent of her or Abramovich" simply cannot stand in article space unless it's the New York Times saying that: we may not editorialize. Obviously that also applies to "While these organizations exist nominally, each is referred to only by the others. There is no independent record of any accomplishments, activities, or community involvement by Zhukova herself."
2. I don't know what you mean with "art" and "racist chairs"; perhaps this was already removed.
3. "Organizations affiliated" in that version is completely unsourced (unreliably sourced) and looks like resume padding (same with the LACMA thing, by the way--it's the typical cultural socialite kind of nonsense).

   What I don't understand is why the Wall Street Journal article isn't used more extensively. It's reliable, it's detailed, it's interesting. Same with the NYT article--three pages, and it's cited only once. I don't wish to dig through the history of this article, but it looks like an article was turned into a resume-style puff piece and is now slowly returned to look like an article--or it started as a resume and we're dealing with the leftovers, in a situation complicated by COI or POV editing, and that's all I'll say for now, without looking more closely. In a nutshell, the person is notable (see the two big fat articles I mentioned) and there's nothing here that basic article writing can't fix. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 02:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Sigh... Yes, it started as a resume, or at least was when I found it, and I haven't wanted to be too aggressive in part because of the periodic vandalism restoring it to resume-state. The racist chairs thing is this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/20/dasha-zhukova-black-woman-chair-buro-247-editorial_n_4633544.html If you google her, I think you'll see that that's the majority of the hits. I suppose the reason there isn't more from WSJ and NYT is, I just don't see much in those articles that would fit on a page. She's bought stuff. Her boyfriend is rich. She sits on the kind of art-world boards that are for people who are married to people who buy a lot of stuff. And that's kind of... it... I suppose if you agree all the resume-padding garbage can come out, that's 1/3 of the way there, I'll figure something out about the art and wait for more involvement to fix the parent. Djcheburashka (talk) 05:10, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

I left NHD in, because I suspect people will research it, and it may come up sooner or later. This is all weird Russian politics/corruption/socialite junk... Djcheburashka (talk) 05:16, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Regardless of google hits, we cannot host derogatory content on a BLP, unless it is reliably sourced and even then we need to proceed with extreme caution. Huff Post is a RS, so this info might be able to be incorporated if we do so neutrally and cautiously. I reverted your recent removal of the entire career section (which I didn't add btw, I just added the section heading for it, it was long standing article content). Also Djcheburashka], I notice edit history shows you deleted the New York Times reference which I recently restored. Which as Drmies pointed out above, is one of the best sources here. I agree with Drimes we need to focus on the that primarily instead of derogatory info that pops up on google hits.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 05:40, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

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