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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens

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Jesse Owens

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I chose this article to read and evaluate the article written about the Olympian Jesse Owens.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: the introduction to the article is very informative introducing American Olympian Jesse Owens. The introduction paragraph does a great job providing background, family history, and even a detailed paragraph about how he got his nickname. The lead does not have a brief description of the article's major sections but it structured through the chronology of Jesse Owens' life. All the content however is relevant and provides appropriate information to the Introduction.

Content: Most of the content is relevant when speaking about Jesse Owens, but maybe there could be more content about his early childhood. However, the content is up to date as the the chronology of Jesse Owens lines up well. This article addresses the struggles Jesse went through during the pre-Civil Rights era in America, the hardships and challenges he went through. Most of the content is Historically accurate.

Tone and Balance: Remains neutral throughout the article. No claims of bias, however the viewpoint of Jesse's perspective on the America's pre-Civil Rights days would have been interesting input. We could have seen how Jesse was outside of an Olympic Athlete. The article remains neutral and has no intention of persuading the reader a certain way.

Sources: the sources are derived from secondary sourcing. They back up the information documented about Jesse Owens. However some of the sources, like the Movies may have been skewed and given a Hollywood spin, not depicting the real thing, but there are many sources like, journals, books, and museum pieces that give support the life of Jesse Owens in its true form. The sources provided are good, the links work and it ties into the article well. Maybe the source found of his Alabama roots could have been used to further detail his upbringing.

Organization and Writing Quality: The writing is concise, clear, and easy to read. There are no grammatical or spelling errors making it a good read. The sections are broken down clearly and they provide good content in a well structured manner.

Images and Media: The images provide understanding to Jesse as an olympian but the upbringing is underrepresented in terms of pictures. They're references to Owens in film and literature and they provide different content and they provide some more depiction of Owens.

Talk Pages discussion: The discussion in th talk pages are about grammatical issues and how they can improve the article by providing more content. Also about how one article is not good as it does not remain neutral and tries to persuade a different opinion about Jesse Owens. It was written through a Nazi reporter's opinion about African American Olympians in the eyes of the Reich. There is even debate about how the time in his Olympic record is incorrect and they talk about how it is a tent of a second off the record. This article is rated C and is is a part of the Wikipedia Athletics WikiProjects. I think this article is well developed in talking about Jesse Owens as an olympian but it skips out on Jesse Owens life before, his upbringing.

Overall Impressions: The article is very good, however some parts mentioned above are underrepresented. IT strengths are on Jesse's adult life, from Olympian, to post olympian days and later life, its weakness is in the lack of content about Jesse Owens' upbringing, which is where I would make the article stronger, instead it ties close to the movie about him. Overall, it is a bit underdeveloped.