Talk:Outline of Abraham Lincoln

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.

With the addition of annotations to the list entries, Wikipedia outlines have been evolving into a hybrid between topic and sentence outlines. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation of outlines. The Transhumanist 23:28, 7 February 2017 (UTC)