Talk:Anatoly Chubais/Archives/2013

Stolichny Bank

This quote: In his relatively short career in government, he'd already racked up a list of improprieties even Marion Barry would envy. Earlier that summer [of 1997], Chubais had admitted to receiving a $3 million interest-free loan from Stolichny Bank, apparently in exchange for Stolichny's victory in the auction of AgPromBank . . . which controlled the second-largest banking network in Russia. He had also been caught failing to pay taxes the year before. Furthermore, the income he did later report was due to investments through a shady investment company called Montes Auri which was raided the same day Kazakov was fired, using money from the Stolichny loan.

From Matt Taibbi, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, Grove Press, New York, NY (2000)

I think that should be deleted because of rules violation of impartiality resource materials (All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias) - quotes from the satirical publication in the style of gonzo journalism without giving an objective description of the events.

Writer's Union

This quote: Delete because of rules violation of impartiality resource materials (All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias) - quotes from the satirical publication in the style of gonzo journalism without giving an objective description of the events.

From Matt Taibbi, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, Grove Press, New York, NY (2000)

I think that should be deleted as well as "Stolichny Bank" quote because of rules violation of impartiality resource materials (All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias) - quotes from the satirical publication in the style of gonzo journalism without giving an objective description of the events.

Citation from the article ‘The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia’ by Matt Taibbi should be deleted. Although a topic meets Chubais biography, it is not appropriate as authoritative article and reliable source of evidence. There are some reasons for that:

1. Matt Taibbi is not a professional writer or journalist, he is a blogger. He is writing blogs about politics in several newspapers, magazines, which host columns on their web sites. For example “Tabbi’s blog” in Rolling Stones magazine. For that reason, according to the Wikipedia core content policies (verifiability): self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs (as distinguished from newsblogs, above), Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources.

2. Matt Taibbi is a much more science-fiction writer: the bits that he says are interesting, but aren't true. The whole thing dissolves into the kind of conspiracy theory he so ably lampooned in The Great Derangement. The result is something that's not even wrong. It's just incoherent. Some professional journalists poit that: "The more dangerous thing is that Taibbi makes a lot of people feel like they finally understand how they were conned. Taibbi's facile use of technical terms, his lengthy explanation of little-known secrets that have been endlessly rehashed on every financial page for going on a decade, gives people the illusion that they have acquired valuable information about the financial crisis. They haven't. They've acquired a bunch of disconnected" from article Matt Taibbi Gets His Sarah Palin On by Megan McArdle, "The Atlantic" July 10, 2009. CharlyBern (talk) 11:14, 18 June 2013 (UTC)