User:Matthew Syn/sandbox

Heather's Comments
10/13- Good start. Please give me a few sentences about what you're improving or changing on the Jack Albertson page. Make sure you're making changes here and not on the main Wikipedia page for now.

10/26- Note that the box on the Wiki page says Early Life needs edited for tone. Did you look at this guide? Writing better articles. Do that first and make more changes. Please make this edit to what you have below: This is a run-on sentence: "His father abandoned his mother before Jack was born, Jack was raised by his stepfather, Alex Erlich, a barber." Double check what you've added (if anything) for plagiarism. Bold what's yours so I can tell.

Matthew's Response
Sounds good, I'll check out the 'tone' aspect of early life and I will also begin bolding my changes that I make to the article. I do not think I have plagiarized any information but I will double check to make sure I have not done so.

Matthew's Work Log
-September 29th, 2019- Decided on Jack Albertson article. Read the article and looked at the current sources.

-September 29th, 2019-Checked out some references(1 hour)

-October 6th, 2019-Editing to Article, Jack Albertson(1 hour)

-October 20th, 2019-Editing to Article, Jack Albertson(1 hour)

-October 27th, 2019-Editing to article tone, Jack Albertson(1 hour)

-November 3rd, 2019-Unbolded changes, reread article and moved to main space(1 hour)

Early life
Harold Albertson was born on June 16, 1907, in Malden, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish immigrants Flora (née Craft) and Leopold Albertson. His older sister was Mabel Albertson, who would go on to be a film and television actress, and their mother was a stock actress who supported the family by working in a shoe factory. Leopold abandoned the family before Albertson was born and Flora remarried to Alex Erlich, a barber who raised both Albertson and his sister.

Albertson's formal education consisted of one year of high school. During a New York Daily News interview (January 2, 1973), Jack noted that "I was bright but disruptive. I didn't do homework. To cover, I made wisecracks and funny faces at the teachers. They told me to take my business elsewhere." Albertson worked at the local General Electric plant and at a shoe factory in the Lynn, Massachusetts. He was also a rack boy in a neighborhood pool parlor, where he was reported to have hustled players. During his time in the pool hall Albertson learned some tap-dance routines from other hustlers. His sister Mabel also taught Albertson the first "time" steps in tap-dancing, and he picked up additional routines by watching vaudeville acts that played his hometown. By the time he was eighteen Albertson had won prizes for his performances, from which he was also receiving revenue. Albertson also began singing with a group called "The Golden Rule Four," who held their practice sessions beneath a railroad bridge.