Talk:Outline of academia

Latest comment: 9 years ago by The Transhumanist in topic Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

WikiProject Academia?

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Please see here: Talk:Academia#WikiProject Academia?. Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 18:03, 9 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

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"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 00:02, 9 August 2015 (UTC)Reply