Talk:Outline of sinology

Guidelines for outlines

Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

The "History of" section needs links!

Please 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.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Straw poll and discussion concerning what outlines should be called

A discussion is underway that may affect the name of this article.

See: Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Should articles named "Outline of x" be renamed to "List of x topics"?

The Transhumanist 04:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Outline

My understanding of Wikipedia:Outlines is that we don't need to list individual sinologists here, only to direct the reader to such a list. This makes particular sense because there already is an article List of sinologists. The list in this article is random and it doesn't make sense to maintain two lists. For a well developed outline, see Outline of Buddhism.

So I have merged the info from the section in this article into the larger list at List of Sinologists. If nobody objects, I will then delete the list in this article, while leaving the Main Article link. ch (talk) 20:19, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Since nobody has objected in the last three years, I cut the list, as per above ch (talk) 19:53, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

"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 00:09, 9 August 2015 (UTC)