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See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".

The Transhumanist 00:51, 12 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Opposed. Reverted. Verbal chat 16:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:07, 4 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

I have reverted this page, as explained in the summary and several other places, to its original name as there is no consensus for the controversial move. I much prefer the list naming myself, but would not be against moving the page to a more general name without the "basic". Please do not move war, but get consensus per WP:BRD etc. See WT:OUTLINE for the controversial failed/disputed policy discussions. There is also a consensus against mathematics articles being moved, generated at the mathematics wikiproject. Verbal chat 16:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

"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

The branches listed aren't the standard branches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaurav Hegde (talk • contribs) 15:18, 22 July 2020 (UTC)Reply