User:Jderrico2022/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bathymodiolus thermophilus

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is the species that I want to study for our project this semester in Deep Sea Biology. My first impression of this article is that it does not give a lot of information on B. Thermophilus. It gives a general overview and some general information about different characteristics of the mussels, but lacks much of the known information about them. The article does give a nice image of the mussels and includes a few good references.

Evaluate the article
The beginning paragraph of the Wikipedia page gives a great overview of the species. It is concise and gives general information that pertains to the mussel. The introduction also includes a Context box that lists the major topics of the Wikipedia page. It also has links to each header that makes it easier to find information. The content of the article stays relevant to the topic, but there are many holes in the research and known knowledge of the B. Thermophilus. The article remains neutral throughout and stays unbiased about the mussels. Most of the content is strictly facts and does not include personal opinions or objective information about the species. All of the references are from peer-reviewed articles; however, most of the papers were written in the early twenty first century, thus lacking up-to-date knowledge about the B''. Thermophilus''. Most of the links to the referenced worked, but there were one or two that brought me to a non-functioning page. The writing is fairly concise with little to no grammatical errors. I did notice a few errors in the spelling of words and right word choice, though. The article is well-organized into different sections that makes finding information easy. There is a single image on the site that helps show what the mussels look like. However, the image is a little dark. The image is laid out in a visually-appealing way though. The image box also lists general information about the mussels, such as the scientific classifications and binomial name. There are no conversations in the Talk page discussion, except for one comment from a person in 2017 who modified an external link on the page. The article has been rated a C class on the quality scale, and Low importance on the importance scale. Furthermore, the article is within the scope of the WikiProject Bivalves.

Overall, I think the current Wikipedia page does a good job of describing the very basic information about the B. Thermophilus; however, there are many gaps in the current knowledge that are not represented on the page. For example, the article does not talk much about the anatomy or physiology of the mussel. It also does not talk much about new research findings and information that I found about the mussels during my research project bibliography. As a result, the article can definitely be updated.