Formating

Hi Amy,

Your page looks really good and you cover so much on the concept of archives as place including different time periods and different definitions and concepts of "place." As I was reading, I kept thinking of different concepts you could discuss, such as definitions, and then realized that you had already done that.

Just a few formatting suggestions that you are free to disregard:

  • The "See also" sections with a list of links within other sections, such as "Early Definitions," "Regional Repositories" look a bit odd visually. Perhaps instead of giving each link its own line, you could separate them by commas making them less visually awkward. Or, perhaps, move them to the end of the section, but this is going against general wiki formatting.
  • Hannah mentioned not capitalizing phrases like "principle of provenance," "respect for original order," and "respect des fonds" but as these are such important concepts in archival theory and practice perhaps you could make them bold to emphasize them.

One rewording suggestion:

In the second paragraph on "Post-custodial Theory," where you quote Frank Upward and Sue McKemmish: "describe post-custodialism, for example, as being to “think of custody in terms of..."

To make it read a little easier you could change it to: "describe post-custodialism, for example, as thinking "of custody in terms of..."

Turning "think" into a present participle and starting the quote with "of" makes the language a little smoother but it is up to you.

Great page!!

SarahGiesbrecht (talk)01:16, 10 April 2015