User talk:LaurenAnibas/sandbox2

Hi Lauren, I think you are in a great place with this outline because of how detailed you have set the layout. Breaking out the types of ivory and ways to identify are great sections to have especially since we are creating these pages for visitors who may have little to no knowledge about the topic. You will of course add more detail in your draft, but I think you will most likely need to further itemize the preventative conservation and conservation and restoration sections. I only recommend this because this is the focus of your article (by the title), and depending on the information you include here will determine what subcategories you might want to add. My favorite section so far is the transportation regulations, I think this is unique but definitely necessity for this topic! This could be a place to add news articles that cover stories relating to ivory transportation, successes or not. --KatyAleecia37 (talk) 21:59, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Lauren, I know absolutely nothing about conservation of Ivory and look forward to reading this article. I really appreciate how you broke down the ivory by animal that it came from which I think will provide for some good organization. I agree with Katy about further itemizing the preventative conservation and conservation and restoration sections as it pertains to each type of animal if it is different for each type. Additionally, I like the fact that you bring in preventative conservation before mentioning conservation and restoration if we get to this point because it's so important for professionals to know how to do everything in their power to preserve what they to avoid unnecessary mishaps or harm. I am doing the same with my article so appreciated seeing it here. This provides information for someone looking to protect the ivory as well as someone who needs to have someone else look at it and care for it. Perhaps you could include what to look for in a professional. What skills must they have or experience? It seems to me that you've covered your basis making this a complete article, especially by talking about the laws at the end which is really all I know about ivory. Perhaps in your full article you can put images to help us see the difference between types of ivory in case someone is trying to figure out what they have in their collections.

--IlanaBl (talk) 14:19, 2 April 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by IlanaBlumen (talk • contribs)