Talk:Outline of Trinidad and Tobago

Tips for developing country outlines

Instructions for developing country outlines is located at Wikipedia:Outlines (while that section is complete, the page is a draft, and will be moved to the Wikipedia namespace when completed). The Transhumanist    21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

A note concerning redlinks...

Many of the entries (and their links) are standard across all of the country outlines, to aid readers, especially young readers, in comparing countries to each other.

So if this country doesn't have any of a particular entry, like navies, please don't delete the entry. Instead, complete it with "none" (and a brief explanation as to why, for example, "- x is a landlocked country with no ports"). If the explanation exists in an article on Wikipedia, then click on the redlink and create a redirect to that location. See Wikipedia:Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section#Section_linking.

Standard redlinks (article names) were also chosen based on how country coverage tipically expands. This makes the standard names for these subtopics widely available and easily accessible. So please do not remove those redlinks, for they will turn blue eventually. In the meantime, they can be redirected to the section of whatever article has the relevant information, if any. See Wikipedia:Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section#Section_linking.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: To discuss the standard design of the country outlines, or of outlines in general, do so on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject talk page.

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    21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please check and fix the government section

The government section needs to be checked for accuracy. The initial data placed in the government branches sections was generated by template, and the data didn't fit all countries.

So those sections need to be looked over, and fixed if needed.

Please help.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: If you'd like to help out with other tasks concerning Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, please drop me a note on my talk page.

Duplicative effort?

Don't really understnad what the difference is supposed to be between this article and List of Trinidad and Tobago–related topics... AnonMoos (talk) 13:09, 27 March 2010 (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 00:01, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

>>>Old map

An enlargeable relief map of Trinidad and Tobago

I considered deleting this map and replacing it with that one that I have added to the article, but I have decided not to be so hasty. Now, while I understand that the point of this map is that it shows the country's relief, I would say that otherwise it falls woefully short. Most glaringly, the country's internal political boundaries have shifted significantly since 1969, when the map was published. This makes the map rather misleading. Furthermore, there are inaccuracies. San Francique, for instance, does not sit in the coast as this map shows. That spot is a community called Erin, whereas San Francique lies inland. Mayaro, a town of more than 6000 residents, unaccountably does not appear on this 1969 map, even though there is plenty of room for it. As for the relief, I wonder whether the topographical map farther down covers that well enough. Kelisi (talk) 03:11, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

@Kelisi: San Francique is the proper name for the settlement, Erin is the Ward. Pierreville is the town of Mayaro proper, but it, together with Plaisance, and sometimes St Joseph are commonly called Mayaro. Guettarda (talk) 03:49, 12 February 2021 (UTC)