Talk:Conservation and restoration of paintings

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Wow Amber - this is a huge topic you're undertaking! Are you planning to do exhaustive write-ups for each of the painting types in your outline? Not having done as much research as you presumably have on the topic, can I ask how many of the preservation and conservation treatments overlap? That is, would you be re-writing much of the same information underneath each category type, or all they all fairly unique?

So far it seems you are adhering to Wikipedia guidelines, though it will be easier to tell once the article is more fleshed out. You have good sources so far, and if you get more of the same quality, it will be even better! One small nitpick about the formatting - I'm not sure that the "Preventative Conservation" and "Conservation and Restoration Methods" headings should be nested underneath the Definition/History headings. If anything, I think those three are all separate categories under the painting type.

I see you have all of our class books as references - I think the Winterarthur guide in particular will be very helpful for your topic (it's not really at all for mine). I searched paintings on Conservation OnLine, though I'm sure you can be more specific and get great articles. For my topic, I've also had really good luck finding articles using the Museum Studies library portal. - Chelsea L-W Chels talks (talk) 19:38, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Amber, You have quite an article being built here! Your outline is very organized, all the painting types listed with the same breakdown of information for each type. I read the comments written here and on our JHU discussion thread and don't want to repeat, but I am wondering if you could make it easier on yourself and consolidate information somehow. Maybe having the kinds of conservation/restoration treatments as headings could be a different angle to take that would consolidate and shorten things?

There is a lot out there on painting conservation, which would make it difficult for me to organize an article. I noticed you put a link to the internal article for Frescoes, and I assume you will do the same with the other painting types. I hate to suggest more work for you with this huge undertaking, but I think some links at the bottom of your article to related Wiki articles could be good, like a "See Also" section. Otherwise you seem to be on track for making a great page with a lot of useful information and good references. I found this short article (you may have seen it already) that lists conservation techniques. Hope it helps. Saboifaire (talk)SabrinaS —Preceding undated comment added 01:24, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

possible Merging of articles
this and these seem to be quite similar, should they be merged? Paintings_conservator, Painting_conservation 158.174.9.79 (talk) 19:00, 21 November 2018 (UTC)