User talk:Aarmst10

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 * Just as an addition to that as an afterthought, what do you think about after giving some brief background on odors in dogs in general that we split up our sections of the article into: skin and coat, dental, and gastrointestinal? That way we could describe under each how odors are caused and reduced in each.

Aarmst10 (talk) 01:06, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry; So I was hoping to work with the existing wikipedia page titled 'Dog Odor'. It would give some background information on my topic of odor reduction in dogs for my assignment. Then my group members and I, who have done research on the nutritional aspect of odor prevention, can add what we know (or add pieces from the existing page to our article). So our article could be kind of split into a general section on causes of dog odor, and then we would add a more detailed section covering specifically the nutritional aspect.

Hope that makes more sense; what do you think about the feasibility of that? Aarmst10 (talk) I'm having a hard time understanding what sort of article you want to create. Can you share with me some of the key sources you plan to work from? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:09, 29 October 2017 (UTC)


 * This seems reasonable. Make sure that you can find enough information in high-quality, scholarly sources. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:42, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, definitely. Also just as an additional question, what if we try to merge our dietary information on dog odor reduction with the existing 'dog odor' wikipedia page, and the author doesn't want us to make changes. How does that work? In others words, will there be anything preventing us from merging our nutritional information regarding odor reduction onto that page? Aarmst10 (talk) 01:35, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Feedback
Nice work on your draft. Some feedback
 * Copyedit your work. References go after punctuation, not before, and there shouldn't be a space in front of the reference.
 * Instead of "odor reduction", you might consider "odor management"
 * If you can think of better terms than "natural" and "unnatural" dog odors, you should change the wording of the dog odor article. It seems to me that bad breath caused by gum disease isn't unnatural, though it may reflect health issues.

Draft:Odor_reduction_dogs

This probably belongs in the Dog_odor section of the dog odor article.

The would go in a new section, but I recommend you call it "odor management" rather than "odor reduction", since it's a more general term. Ideally you'd add some general statements about odor management under that section header, and then create a subheader for "dental".

I'd do the same thing for the "Skin and coat" section. Split the first and second paragraph of each section apart, and probably for the "Gastrointestinal" section.

Does this make sense? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:52, 21 November 2017 (UTC)