Talk:Outline of Australia

Australia the cult
The article claims that "Australia" refers to both a continent and the "commonwealth of australia" meaning a country/nation. But only the sovereignty of the British colony is referenced in spite of the fact that several aboriginal communities have declared independence. As with all wikipedia portals, the content is biased toward only one view of Australia: that its government is legitimate. All wikipedia portals are similarly inherently biased. I fail to see why wikipedia should give legitimacy to any political system.

I live on the continent Australia, but I do not consider myself Australian. I don't remember voting for the constitution or agreeing to any of its laws. I do however recall being pushed around by all three levels of government, being disrespected in the extreme and having every attempt to engage meaningfully with governments dismissed out of hand. There are probably tens of thousands of us across this continent. Our place on wikipedia's "australia portal" is where exactly?

All nation states are essentially cults: citizens are fed propaganda insisting they should identify with a flag and an anthem and respect the system of government, even when they don't, and even to the point of being convinced to take up arms(join the army) to shoot people in a distant land who are not even invading us.

I suggest separating Australia the nation state from Australia the continent. 101.184.19.83 (talk) 02:19, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Untitled
There are no glaciers in Australia, although glaciation has affected part of the Australian Alps in ancient times. As far as I'm aware there are no fjords in Australia, even in Tasmania.--Grahame (talk) 14:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I filled in the blanks with "none". The Transhumanist 06:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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

The Transhumanist 00:29, 12 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 09:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Tips for developing country outlines
Instructions for developing country outlines is located at Outlines (while that section is complete, the page is a draft, and will be moved to the Wikipedia namespace when completed). The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

A note concerning redlinks...
Many of the entries (and their links) are standard across all of the country outlines, to aid readers, especially young readers, in comparing countries to each other.

So if this country doesn't have any of a particular entry, like navies, please don't delete the entry. Instead, complete it with "none" (and a brief explanation as to why, for example, "- x is a landlocked country with no ports"). If the explanation exists in an article on Wikipedia, then click on the redlink and create a redirect to that location. See Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section.

Standard redlinks (article names) were also chosen based on how country coverage tipically expands. This makes the standard names for these subtopics widely available and easily accessible. So please do not remove those redlinks, for they will turn blue eventually. In the meantime, they can be redirected to the section of whatever article has the relevant information, if any. See Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: To discuss the standard design of the country outlines, or of outlines in general, do so on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject talk page.

Guidelines for outlines
Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please check and fix the government section
The government section needs to be checked for accuracy. The initial data placed in the government branches sections was generated by template, and the data didn't fit all countries.

So those sections need to be looked over, and fixed if needed.

Please help.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: If you'd like to help out with other tasks concerning Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, please drop me a note on my talk page.

Guidelines for outlines
Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at 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)

Needed maintenance on country outlines
Please check this outline for the following problems, and fix if present:


 * If the Local government section is empty (or only has a red "main" link), please remove the section. (If it has a blue "main" link, do not remove).
 * Underdeveloped Education section - add more links.
 * Redlinks that are unlikely to ever turn blue - remove or delink as appropriate.
 * Out-of-date incumbant names - remove. No need to add the new incumbants, as the links to the articles on the position titles should suffice.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 02:13, 8 August 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 Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 23:51, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Under geography - add in Australia is an island
I note under Geography that it says: "Geography of Australia

Australia is...

. a continent

. a country"

Since it mentions that Australia is a continent, should it also include a reference here to Australia being an island? E.g. add a new dot point between the dot point "a continent" and "a country."

Tzali (talk) 16:38, 6 December 2022 (UTC)