Talk:Payton Jordan

Criticism removal
commented out a large section which upon checking seems fully justified to delete. I checked the sole source, http://www.gostanford.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/031605aac.html, through the wayback machine and it is purely an announcement of a book signing and day honoring Payton Jordan at Stanford. The commented out section should probably be deleted. There does seem to be some issue with his politics as indicated by a letter to the Stanford Alumni Magazine which means there may be some reliable source for some of the paragraph, but, someone needs to track them down. The letter writer, Robert Coe, did write a book, Jock: A Memoir of the Counterculture, on his time as a Stanford long distance runner under Jordan but it seems to be self-published so not within the usual reliable source standard for Wikipedia (it has received a moderate amount of good online reviews even from people who admitted to political differences with Coe [though sharing a love of running]). Another letter indicates that some research into Jordan and when Stanford started having women on the track and field team. --Erp (talk) 14:22, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm embarrassed, that content was added by an IP almost 10 years ago (December 5, 2008) and I never noticed it before even though I have made multiple contributions to this article. Trackinfo (talk) 14:31, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * One reason people need to be careful when using Wikipedia as a source :-). I did some work on expanding the references but a few look dead.  There is some info at

Jordan also made the 19 June 1039 cover of Life Magazine (https://2neat.com/magazine/product/life-magazine-june-19-1939-runner-payton-jordan/) --Erp (talk) 23:47, 9 September 2018 (UTC)