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Hi Cathryn, I think your page is looking great so far. You've looked at a lot of legislation! I wanted to ask if you were planning on talking about non-Canadian privacy regulations? If you weren't, you might want to think about breaking up your formatting so that Provincial legislation is its own 2nd level heading. Like, 1.1 Federal and 2.1 Provincial for headings, if that makes sense. Even if you're planning on discussing other forms of privacy legislation, you could probably nest them until a heading like 3.1 Privacy Legislation Outside of Canada or something along those lines. Also, make sure you add in the references end tag so we can see your citations! At the very bottom of your page, you need < references / > except without the spaces after and before the triangular brackets. Best, Allison

Hey Cathryn, I agree with Allison -- great spread of acts here. I have a suggestion re: headings as well. It might make sense to delineate the various sections even further (e.g., 2 Provincial, 2.1 Alberta, 2.1a Personal Information Privacy Act (PIPA), 2.1b [Relevant information]. That way you can separate the specific act from the knowledge you've gathered about it (instead of having it on the same line). Otherwise, good work so far! I look forward to reading more. -Alison W

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all your wonderful comments! I have added more content, though I have taken down my references for the moment until I have finished writing all my content. To answer your question Jessica, I will be only looking at Canada at the United States. I will be sure to add links to all the legislation I listed. Do you think it would be easier if I listed all my comments about how each of the individual laws affects archives, under the section "Effects of Privacy Legislation on Archives" or would it be better suited under each of the relevant laws? I have also changed the title of the page so that it is easier to find. Also, does anyone know how to delineate the sections so that it lists as 1.1a, 1.1.b....ect.?

The choice of heading you use (ie how many equals signs you put around your heading) is what does the headings. I don't know it there is a way to make the sections lettered instead of numbered. You have them tiered now, which is great! Although looking at the list, I'm sort of wondering about my suggestion to break things up into Federal and Provincial. Maybe you should try just bolding the name of the legislation instead of making them sub-sub-headings so that your provincial list isn't a mile long and see how that looks in your table of contents?

Re: Effects of Privacy on Archives, I think it depends on how much you have to say about the laws and the effect they have. Would a third sub-heading (2.3) under Privacy Legislation be appropriate, maybe? That way it's linked directly to Privacy, but you've got your solid idea grouped together and not broken up into snippets.