Talk:Conservation and restoration of Tibetan thangkas

Hi Joanne! I think you have an excellent page here. Plenty of content to start. It also looks like you included every possible work of paper a paper conservator could handle. Perhaps the phrase "paper conservator" is broad enough that there could then be additional pages for more specific types of paper conservators? Are there specific book conservators? Scroll conservators? I actually don't know the answer to this, but would be curious to find out! Under your category "Education & Training" I wonder what types of degrees a paper conservator would hold? I liked your reference to the Northeast Document Conservation Center. If you can figure out how to add any links to any words in your page that would make it more resourceful as well. (It took me awhile to figure it out!) Good job, again, on your page! SarahDrennen (talk) 19:39, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Joanne- This is such a great article! I think the way you organized your headings is exactly right. I wish I would have done something similar, I got a little too caught up in the history and not enough in the conservation. The information under Common Treatments was incredibly well done and useful information to someone researching paper conservators. I do agree with Sarah that you could have linked to these types of paper conservators in your post, because there are articles on specialized paper conservators, one that works mostly with photographs etc. But that is next step sort of thing. I do wish you had your references labelled in the text of the article so that I could follow along with where each piece of information came from in case I wanted to learn more. One other section that you could include would be examples of paper conservation, where you could talk about on going projects in the field or successful cases? I was trying to think of it as someone who really wanted to know everything about a paper conservator, and I am just an example type of person. Overall, incredible job and I think this one is a good example of what we all should strive for! Becca rgoodru1 (talk) 10:28, 8 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.160.61.25 (talk)

Hi Joanne,

I really liked the layout of your outline (Xin Yuan Lim, 2015) for your final article about Tibetan Thangkas because it was clear and concise. I could follow along with your thought process and the goals you have for the final article. A suggestion that I have which could improve your outline, would be to add a picture of the item you were describing for those of us (like me) who did not initially know what Tibetan Thangkas were without googling them at some point. Are you going to add some photographs into your final article? I think it would be beneficial to do so for all types of readers of Wikipedia articles. A resource that I recommend that you look into is entitled, “Notes on the Technique of Tibetan Thangkas” by Ann Shaftel because it describes the “forms of damage to which they are susceptible (Shaftel, 1986, p. 97).” This would provide some additional insights for your damage section and the link to where you can find it is below in the little reference section. Enjoy and I hope that this article is useful for your article! Your article, from what I have read in the outline (Xin Yuan Lim, 2015) you have created, does follow Wikipedia guidelines because it is purely stating facts. There were not any “attacks on a person or organization ("Your First Entry," 2015),” and “advertisements ("Your First Entry," 2015).” Overall I think that your article will be very insightful and informative. I cannot wait to read your research and the rest of our classmate’s findings. Good luck! Sincerely, Carie