Talk:Outline of transhumanism

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Transhumanism portal

There's certainly enough here to build one! Nk.sheridan   Talk 15:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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)

Sections

It seems to me this article is a collection of concepts instead of providing an encyclopaedic view of transhumanism. It is in grave need of rewriting. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:51, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Broken refs

There were two broken refs on the page, producing the big red error text in the reflist. I commented them both out. Presumably the main references here were deleted leaving only these orphaned refs.

1. <ref name="Intelligent agents"/>
2. <ref name="Coining of the term AI"/>

I guess the task here is comb through the history, find what the real references were, and then update these to include the full citation? Gosh that sound annoying, this seems like a real problem with named refs -- when removing any named ref you have to search for ophans, if not you leave a mess for someone else. Silas Ropac (talk) 21:10, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

These were never working references which became orphaned. Instead the wikitext was copied from the lead for Artificial intelligence and the references become broken at that time. So the task is just to fix up the references to make them like the lead. Although this kind of raises the question does a lead copied into an outline need the exact same citations, or are the requirements more lenient because one can always go to the main article and see the full details? Silas Ropac (talk) 20:22, 25 February 2013 (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 00:12, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

This article is way too long

This is why I started the https://hpluspedia.org project - this article is way too ambitious by itself. Deku-shrub (talk) 21:53, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Archived at the Wayback Machine

Copies of the outline can now be found at the Internet Archive.    — The Transhumanist   07:10, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Archive of rendered page, 2024 May 09

https://web.archive.org/web/20240509064923/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_transhumanism

Archive of edit page, 2024 May 09

The wiki source text for Outline of transhumanism can be seen at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240509065345/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outline_of_transhumanism&action=edit