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ExxonMobil - Wikipedia

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I chose this article because I believe that as a gas company, they are one of the leading companies that affect climate change and will be under intense watch over the next few years. It matters because the energy and gas they produce and profit off of our high enablers to climate change and aren't good for the environment, and an impression that was made was how many other large corporations are heavily invested in it like Vanguard and BlackRock.

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Lead Section

Exxon Mobil is an oil and gas company and is one of the largest in the world as it was a descendant of John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil company. BlackRock and Vanguard Group hold major shares of the company as it is one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world. In the Fortune 500, it's the twelfth most valuable highlighting the world's dependency on oil and gas and how much revenue they have. They have also been historically criticized for their climate change denial and how they greatly contribute to global warming, and it is responsible for the most oil spills with its most notable one being in Alaska. The article doesn't rely on any equity gasps it just shows the revenue they make which is billions and this doesn't affect many underrepresented areas.

Content

Yes, the article's content is related to the topic of climate change as the company is one of the largest emitters of oil and gas and has direct responsibility for global warming, yet the company denies any wrongdoing. The content is also up to date with all of its statistics as they do show a lot of the revenue and percentages of oil and gas output, or at least most are up to date with the times and have no data that is over five years old as its newest data imputed. Some content that could be missing is the gap they have had since climate change and global warming have been a topic and they have been under scrutiny; it doesn't exactly show how much they have lost or if these claims affect the company in any way making it go out of business one day.

Tone and Balance

The article I would say is not neutral and is more on the side of how climate change is real, and they have wrongdoings being the largest company with oil and gas and have a whole section on their controversies and wrongdoings. It never states how helpful this company is with providing jobs to people and supplying gas and oil to people as it shows how much they make controversies and other material that never puts them in a spot of glory except for the revenue being so high. The viewpoint of its controversies relating to global warming denial shows a majority showing the timeline of denial and their continued attempts to deny the facts. Also, the oil spills and plastic pollution give in-depth detail on how many gallons were discharged and their responsibility in all of it. The declining health effects and the negative impacts all of this has on the earth. I wouldn't say the author tries to persuade the reader in any way it just gives the evidence of one side more than the other but intentionally saying this side is better than another is not present in it.

Sources and References

All of the data in the article in the article is backed up by correct data and data that is verified to be true by every source including Fortune 500 websites and other gas emissions websites that provide the data. The sources and data are also very thorough, referencing every stat or data that is given has some sort of citation as to where it was found. Either leaving a hyperlink or a detailed citation is found at every stat which helps the reader understand that this is a reputable source with many sources being backed and not just made up by the publisher. For example, for a topic on geopolitical influence, there is an article that is attached as the main article that talks about all the information that is shown as they are saying this is where they found it. Most of the links work as well as they are linked as the main article one or data columns has a hyperlink, if not they are with a citation that you can search up so all of the sources you can find within a minute. Most of the sources are diverse and not just from one publisher or company.

Organization and Writing Quality

The article is well written as there are very lengthy but concise points in every part of the article, the many subdivisions each have data that backs it up and if there is a timeline regarding certain events they are in order and show what followed after. Not that I can see regarding grammatical errors or spelling, nothing would indicate that the publisher misspelled any words. The article is also well organized however it could have been organized a little better regarding a little less than half of it shows how they have some wrongdoings; I feel that this could have been presented earlier and shown the profits of it as it was a major talking point in the article.

Images and Media

There are many images regarding every topic that they have, it shows some great context behind what they are talking about. Especially regarding the oil spills as it shows the cause and effect and how bad they were as just looking at numbers doesn't do it justice. Yes, most of the images adhere to Wikipedia regulations and most of the pictures have a hyperlink with the people in them and you can have an article about them if you want to learn more about it which is helpful. The images are laid out in a good way as they aren't too big or don't take up too much space where they can make you go away from the reading.

Talk Page Discussion

The conversations with the talk page are mainly talking about the financial information how shocked some people were and how some of it talks about the politics of it which people like. It talks about some of the split with the information how many times this article was edited and the news talking about it. We haven't discussed Exxon or other gas companies in class, but I assume we will at some time, and believe we will talk about it in the same realm as this article does and the other links. It highlights some of the wrongdoings and why they could be problematic for society with global warming.

Overall Impressions

The article's overall status is a highly reputable article with a lot of detailed information and gives a lot of valuable insight into how big of a company they are and what some of the wrongdoings they have with the type of work they are in. The strengths of this article are the number of resources and data it uses to verify its information. All of the stats show the extent of the money, and the pictures also show the damage that there spills have caused. An improvement could be to say what happened with the damage and how much that affected the company financially as they didn't go into depth with that and instead showed the harmful effects on society.