User:BNg22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Firefly squid

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate this article because it is a topic on which I have done some preliminary research and I plan to edit this page in the future. The firefly squid is an interesting deep sea organism that inhabits the mesopelagic zone and engages in diel vertical migration. I thought that this article was well organized and provided a good overview of firefly squid.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section provides a concise yet thorough introduction to the topic. It introduces the main topics of bioluminescence, diet, distribution, mating, and commercial applications. The content of the article is relevant to the organism. I noticed that the lead section and the distribution section had different depth ranges for the organism, so this should be addressed and updated. The Commercial Use section was given far less attention than the other sections, so this is a possible area for expansion. The article reads with a neutral tone that objectively provides the reader with information rather than trying to persuade them of one particular interpretation. The first paragraph of the anatomy and morphology section needs some specific sources. This section doesn't contain any direct references to sources. The sources present were written by multiple different authors. The article seemed to be well written. I would have liked there to have been more images to accompany the information provided. There could have been an image to accompany the discussion of diel vertical migration and one to illustrate the anatomical parts of the squid. There isn't any recent activity on the talk page for this article. The last entry was back in 2020 when another Educational group from Boston College was editing it. This article is in the C-class and part of the Wikiproject Cephalopods. While I think the article provides its readers with a solid overview of the firefly squid, it could be improved by providing more details and including any updates and discoveries that have occurred recently.