Talk:Outline of the Middle Ages
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Good idea?
editI'm not sure this article is a good idea. All it does is list Wikipedia articles (and not very completely) - which is exactly what Categories are for, to help organize, categorize and index Wikipedia articles. This article could easily be 10s of thousands of entries long. I understand the need for a high-level major articles list, but it would probably best be a page off the Middle Ages Project page, and not a Wikipedia article. -- Stbalbach 15:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- It actually appears a bit long to me for a list of basic topics. Arundhati lejeune 13:56, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Absolutely. Merge with WikiPrjoect Middle Ages.
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 00:10, 9 August 2015 (UTC)