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See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
The Transhumanist 01:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
See the proposal at the Village pump
The Transhumanist 09:08, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
could we include things like factories, and manufacturing buildings? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pigophone ( talk • contribs) 22:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
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)
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)
A discussion is underway that may affect the name of this article.
See: Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Should articles named "Outline of x" be renamed to "List of x topics"?
The Transhumanist 04:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I copy below the discussion which has been taking place on the talk page of WP Architecture. Further comments welcome:
Copied from the talk page at Index of architecture articles which I'm in the process of editing in response to the recent request. Any views on the purpose of that article and what should be in it? an anyone tell me if it's in any way automatic? Lists of omissions?
I have requested an expert to look at this article. It contains several links to disambiguation pages that should be solved. An expert should know far quicker where to link to (or when to add additional links) then I do. Your effort will be much appreciated. Night of the Big Wind talk 16:38, 13 December 2011 (UTC) Member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
I will have a go at this. Had a go at B and E so far weeding out duplicates and completely useless stubs (just take a look at Experimental home and tell me if I'm wrong). There is a lot wrong with coverage of architecture on Wikipedia, partly because of wrong ideas about what constitutes proper subject matter, partly because many of the subjects that are covered are written by non-experts and consequently provide wrong or insubstantial information. So perhaps it would be useful if this page directed mainly to well developed articles that do contain useful information. How was this page was generated? Is it in any way automatic or just what people thought might belong here? because I can quite quickly dip into articles to see if they should be included, but if they are going to get added back automatically then I'm wasting my time. What about Outline of architecture - how does that relate to this article? It has the same problems and covers some of the same ground. Surely all the lists should go here, and that article should be more of a summary. I'm posting this on the Wikiproject page too. ProfDEH ( talk) 08:59, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- I think you're right, Index of architecture articles is actually rather redundant. As you say, there are other ways of finding articles on the subject - searching, lists, categories - and it's impossible to be comprehensive. - There is a lot of overlap between Portal:Architecture, Outline of architecture, Index of architecture articles and ideally at least one of those would go by way of a merge. Do we even need two roundup-type articles, especially since they are poorly maintained and worryingly incomplete? I think one is good to pick out some good articles on the basics, to give an overview of the subject. - It would be good to develop the Outline with a proper logical structure, as other examples of outlines have managed. - One problem is that while you'd aim for reasonably complete coverage, the quality of articles varies widely, so some don't really deserve to be mentioned excpet that the subject matter is important. How do you resolve that? ProfDEH ( talk) 15:26, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that recent and modern buildings seem to dominate the article's picture selection. And are you sure the one on top is really the best choice to give a first impression of the field? Borock ( talk) 22:44, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
? The Transhumanist 03:18, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Good question and thanks for taking an interest. I'm trying to build this up to a reasonable standard, help with formatting and a critical response are much appreciated and I hope you will have time to keep an eye on progress. ProfDEH ( talk) 07:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
I can hardly wait to get started on that list of buildings - pub, bar, restaurant? But actually I think a roof is pretty much an essential feature of a building. A completely open air amphitheatre is obviously just landscaping, adding walls perhaps brings it closer to a building but given the doubt I think it doesn't need to be on this list. ProfDEH ( talk) 16:46, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Isn't architecture rather more about space by whatever means that space is defined? Roofs and ground materials can all do this independently or in conjunction with each other. Joopercoopers ( talk) 01:05, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
" 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 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)