Talk:Outline of ecology
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 | The contents of the Ecology (disciplines) page were merged into Outline of ecology on 12 January 2020. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines"
editSee Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to
editSee the proposal at the Village pump
Guidelines for outlines
editGuidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.
Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.
The "History of" section needs links!
editPlease add some relevant links to the history section.
Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates. Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.
Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
edit"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:05, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Proposed merge with Ecology (disciplines)
editThis is a needless overlap of Ecology and Outline of ecology, along with some unsourced synthesis. Rather than needlessly split concepts into ever more diffuse and hard to find lists (only 2 articles link here as of this writing), this list should be incorporated into the outline. --Animalparty! (talk) 02:21, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- I support the idea of merging Ecology (disciplines) into this Outline. If memory serves, I created that article (way back in the dark ages of 2005) to split off a lengthy embedded list from the ecology article. I see no need to keep it separate from this. Guettarda (talk) 03:42, 12 December 2018 (UTC)