English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:WikiProject Outlines/List of discussions concerning outlines
Discussions prior to 2013
For earlier and other discussions, see the archives at:
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines
- Wikipedia talk:Contents/Outlines
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Contents
- Wikipedia talk:Contents
Deletion discussions
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics (Nov 2005) - delete (4 years before the Outline WikiProject started). Was resurrected in 2009 at Deletion Review, and has since been renamed to Outline of Islam
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic computer science topics (March 2006) - no consensus. Is now Outline of computer science.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic visual arts and design topics (May 2006) - delete. Replaced by List of basic visual arts topics and List of basic design topics.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic industrial topics (Aug 2006) - speedy keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic management topics (Aug 2006) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic Canada topics (March 2008) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic mining topics (Aug 2008) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Topic outline of algebra (Jan 2009) - keep (also nominated: Topic outline of arithmetic, Topic outline of calculus, Topic outline of geometry, Topic outline of mathematics)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Topic outline of Big Science (Jan 2009) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of South Africa (May 2009) - speedy keep
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Drafts/Outline of British Columbia (June 2009) - snow keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Palestine (July 2009) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of the South Island (August 2009) - delete. Already fully covered in Outline of New Zealand.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of computer engineering (August 2009) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Texas history (October 2009) - delete. Resulted in the merge of all state history outlines into the corresponding state outlines (see Outline of Louisiana history, below).
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Louisiana history, and all state history outlines (October 2009) - Merge to parent article (Outline of state...). During the merge, each history outline was cleaned-up and expanded. They can be found in the history sections of the state outlines.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (April 2010) - delete. Was mostly redlinks.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of life extension (Mar 2010) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Google (July 2010) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of basketball, when the article was 4 days old and still under construction (October 2010) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Canada (November 2010) - keep all
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Northern Cyprus, and merge into 2 other outlines. (April 2011) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of relationships (June 2011) - withdrawn by nominator per improvements with the following comment: "It's nice to see that every once in a blue moon, people who say 'keep but improve' actually follow through on the 'improve' part."
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Apple Inc. (April 2012) - keep (and withdrawn by nominator).
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of iOS (April 2012) - keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History and branches of Judaism (May 2012) - redir (merge) into Outline of Judaism.
Situations pertaining to specific articles
July 2009
- move - move by Dbachmann of "Outline of Kosovo" to portal space (July 2009)
- move - move by Dbachmann of "Outline of drawing" to portal space (July 2009)
- move - move by Dbachmann of "Outline of Switzerland" to portal space (July 2009)
- Talk:Outline of sharks#Merge request Outline of sharks with Shark (July 2009)
- Talk:Outline (list)#Objection to the move and to the merge (July 2009) - moved by Dbachmann
- Talk:Outline of the creation–evolution controversy#Move to Outline (July 2009) - about naming
- move - move by Dbachmann of "Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...?" to user space
- move - move by Dbachmann of "Wikipedia:Comparison of Wikipedia's and Britannica's outlines of knowledge" to user space
- move - move by Dbachmann of "Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...?" to user space
Debates and proposal discussions, etc.
November 2007
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 14#Index lists (Nov 2007)
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 1#Overlap with portals and other concerns (Nov 2007)
January 2008
- Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace - failed proposal (Jan–Mar 2008)
June 2008
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 28#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines" (June 2008)
March 2009
- User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 21#Question copied from Juliancolton's page - Why not develop portals instead, Roux
May 2009
- Talk:Switzerland/Archive 7#Orphaned article: Outline of Switzerland - Dbachmann
- Outline of science converted to redirect by Dbachmann
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 64#"Outlines" - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive193#Shadow Wikipedia - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 47#OoK's expediency - Brandmeister
- Wikipedia talk:Contents/Outlines/Archive 4#namespace discipline - Dbachmann
July 2009
- User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 23#URGENT: User:Dbachmann - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive551#"Outlines" - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Please consider this: you might be wrong - Abductive
- Category:Outlines - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 1#move this out of main namespace please - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists/Archive 2#sneak addition of various other "types of lists" - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists/Archive 2#Outlines and indexes have been included since the beginning; and a proposal - Answer to Dbachman, The Transhumanist
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive551#Dbachmann: Underhanded tactics and false accusations - The Transhumanist (includes an excellent summary of outline issues by Quiddity).
- Wikipedia talk:Why do we have outlines in addition to...?#I'm still not seeing it... - Namespace debate, J Milburn
- Outlines - Rant against them being in article space, Dbachmann
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Ultimate project goals - Minnecologies
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Utility of outlines to wikiprojects - Tiamut
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Hatnotes to outlines - DionysosProteus
- User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 23#User essays - Dbachmann
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid/Archive 4#Local bias - concerning reverts by Nubiatech
October 2009
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 2#Failed? - proposal to mark the Outline instructions as "Failed".
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 2#It's not a proposal, but an essay - retagged the page as an essay.
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 68#Another "OOKers" vs "listers" skirmish
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct#List of X topics vs Outline of X
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct#Outlines in general and List of logic topics
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Louisiana history - nomination to delete a large group of outlines (Mass deletion proposal)
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct#The status and potential of outlines
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#Discussing issues - Outline naming/renaming controversy, etc.
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#Should articles named "Outline of x" be renamed to "List of x topics"? - straw poll.
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#Ownership and expert input - should outlines be developed by experts only? And namespace debate. RDBury
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#My 0.02 - should outlines be developed by experts only? Unionhawk
- User talk:Karanacs/Outline RfC draft - discussion of a potential RfC, which was a de facto deletion proposal by raising the issue of whether or not outlines should exist. The proposer, declined to submit the RfC, and had the actual draft deleted.
February 2010
- Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 4#Failed - user marked the essay as failed, as if it was a proposal.
September 2010
December 2010
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Contents/Outlines – attempt to delete the list of outlines. Nominator mistook outlines to be similar to the concept in the rejected root articles proposal.
September 2011
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 78#RfC: Elimination of outline articles – proposal to rename outlines which turned into a deletion debate. Overwhelming support for outlines, and some useful feedback.
October 2011
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 4#Merged guideline draft into the existing essay - Response to Monty845's Alternative Outline Articles guideline Proposal.
Related discussions
December 2011
- User talk:SMcCandlish/Archive 62#The topics lists mess – explanation of where the titles "Outline of" and "Index of" came from.
January 2012
- User talk:Qwyrxian/Archive 26#General topics lists and the naming schism – another explanation of where the titles "Outline of" and "Index of" came from.
Article alerts log, started 2011
The page transcluded here is Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts/Archive 1:
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