Talk:Petro Poroshenko

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[edit] oversimplification

I think the article now is an oversimplification. First of all, he is not a relative of the president. They are godfathers of each other's children. Is this called "fellow-sponsors" in English? While this may mean a no less than a direct relation for some people, "relative" is simply incorrect. Regarding the sponsorship of OR, he certainly helped, but "Chief sponsor" is an oversimplification. The matter of sponsors is very much cloudy still but putting it this way looks misleading in any case as it creates an impression of the OR being a paid event which it certainly wasn't. It was a genuine people's resolve to overturn an election fraud and without such a resolve any money would not have mattered much. In my opinion his main role in helping the OR was the creation and support of his own TV channel that provided the revolution with the information support and helped disheartened people to get a non-censored info. This was a brave and nobel goal of his and this needs reflected in the article.

Receiving "the high office in the government in recompense" is a POV. I could see how one may think so, but still it is not neutral. "Chocolate king" and "corruption allegations" are in order and I have no objections to these.

I am not sure when I will have time to write for this article, but I hope these thoughts would be helpful for others who decide to take this upon themselves before I get to it. --Irpen 09:00, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I fully agree with the objections of Irpen. Going to attach the NPOV template if the article will not be rewritten in days. AlexPU 09:13, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

General POV tag is excessive. I will be glad to write the article if no one else gets to it once I am done with a mess of two Andriys around here. I just marked a questionable sentence as disputed and watered down the text a little bit. More localized tags are better to use when possible. The {{dubious}} in the end of the sentence simply links to talk were all issues are already raised adequately --Irpen 09:38, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "they are god-fathers of each other's children"

This hardly could be true. It is forbidden by Ukrainian traditions (відхрещувати не можна). Are there any serious sources confirming this?--AndriyK 19:54, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I rechecked. It is easy to find that VAYu indeed was the god father for Poroshenko's daughters. I didn't find anything to confirm the other way around. So corrected. Thanks, --Irpen 21:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)