Category talk:Topical indexes

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This category is part of a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Move navigational lists to portal namespace.

Non-simple lists
Whilst initially populating this cat, I've included a handful of lists in this category, that aren't simple alphabetical indices, for the sake of completism. Listing those below. -- Quiddity (talk) 08:43, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * List of American Civil War topics, List of obstetric topics, List of neuroscience topics, List of vaccine topics, List of film topics, List of noise topics, List of topics in logic, List of topics in metaphysics, List of transport topics, List of software engineering topics, List of electrical engineering topics, List of nanotechnology topics, List of organic gardening and farming topics, List of sustainable agriculture topics, List of autism-related topics, List of Ayyavazhi-related topics, List of Jesus-related articles, List of articles about the Latter Day Saint movement, List of Hinduism-related topics, List of business law topics, List of finance topics, List of human resource management topics, List of information technology management topics, List of production topics, List of marketing topics, List of topics on working time and conditions, List of geometry topics, List of combinatorics topics, List of science topics, List of energy topics, List of probability topics, List of community topics, List of computer programming topics, List of counseling topics, List of guitar-related topics, List of child-related topics, List of materials analysis methods, List of genetic genealogy topics, List of computer vision topics, List of Vietnam War-related topics, List of wine-related topics, List of scientific method topics, List of patent related topics, List of health sciences topics, List of Advaita Vedanta-related topics, List of poker related topics, List of human-computer interaction topics, List of functional programming topics, List of World War II topics, List of industrial archaeology topics, List of United Nations-related topics, List of skiing topics, List of British pornography topics, List of chess topics, List of democracy and elections-related topics, List of formal language and literal string topics, List of topics in cell biology.
 * The collections represented at Category:WikiProject assessments could be considered topical indexes. Equally, the related-changes topics-lists, like WikiProject Illinois/Illinois recent changes. I haven't included these.
 * Almost all of the Category:Mathematics-related lists are non-simple, and I haven't included them in either the category or the above list.

Is there any issue with including "non-simple lists" (like your examples) that are not "simple alphabetical" indices? - Neparis (talk) 17:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have something specific in mind, example links would help ;)
 * My main intent, is to list pages that are purely navigational, and have no chance of being developed into "encyclopedic articles"; but not including lists of lists, lists of people, dab pages, or basic topic lists. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No examples in mind — I have no axe to grind. I think it is a good category. I took interest in it because I had myself been gradually preparing a similarly named new category Category:Subject indices by compiling offline a list of suitable list articles, but it looks like you beat me to it by creating your category! I take your point about excluding lists that ought to be full articles. I might have different opinions about the boundaries of the category, for example, whether lists of basic topics, and nested lists really need be excluded. It's no big deal though. - Neparis (talk) 00:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I know very little about Wikipedia categories, and was really just making this cat to illustrate the above noted conversation on potentially moving various things to portalspace. It might be good to limit the contents whilst that conversation is ongoing, but suggestions are more than welcome, and changing its direction or adding subcats or renaming or whatnot is fine if you know the category system very well :) (I started off with category:alphabetical indexes, but then changed my mind after labeling 20 of them ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 05:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You manage to look like you know a lot about categories! Personally I am not keen on the idea of moving the navigational topic lists to portal space, an idea that has proved controversial in at least one case. I think the topic lists are useful to have on mainspace. I see the request at WP:RM is still open. - Neparis (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)