Talk:Conservation and restoration of Judaica

Hi Ilana, It looks like you've got a lot of great content to cover here, but I'd caution against including other sacred objects in this article unless you just want to include one sentence at the end saying, "For information on conservation of other sacred objects see ...." or "other related topics may include: ..." I might say the same for your section about deaccessioning actually. It does technically cover handling sensitive objects yes, but I think deaccessioning is a step away from conservation, which is the topic of the article. I would think this would fall into other museum professionals hands, not the conservators (correct me if I'm wrong Richard?). Maybe a vague connection if a conservator is the one making the call that it is no longer able to be conserved? Maybe you could spin it like that? I would also consider making your definition a separate section and your description would go directly under your article title. One last piece of advice is to look into what is considered correct with using Yiddish in terms of format. Usually, if the article is in English, any foreign language terms have to be in italics, but I'm not sure about words like Torah, because they are commonly used in English also. Great start to aligning your ideas and topics to cover! Annavlaminck (talk) 21:29, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Ilana- I will be interested to read this article when it is done! I agree with Anna above about the inclusion of deaccessioning and other sacred objects. I think a sentence about it or a link to another page would be nice, but too much information could go beyond the topic of conservation. Your outline looks really great and thorough. Where you have topics bolded, I would use subheadings that way they are organized at the top "contents" section. Since your article will have a lot of information, each topic can be easily accessed without scrolling all the way through. To format the subheadings, I used ===heading===. Dmcadams jhu (talk) 23:27, 2 April 2017 (UTC)