Talk:Outline of Colorado prehistory

Outline usefulness, content, etc.
I started this outline with the hope that it might help readers interested in knowing about people indigenous to Colorado and am hoping for input about:
 * whether this seems like a useful outline?
 * if so, how does the **draft** of the outline seem content-wise?--CaroleHenson (talk) 01:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, very useful/informative. The Transhumanist 21:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Major events
I moved these here from the outline, for discussion. These didn't take place during the range of history covered by the outline, so I'm wondering how well they fit...


 * Battle of Beecher Island –
 * Colorado War –
 * Comanche Campaign –
 * Sand Creek massacre –

If these are included, young readers without a firm grasp of what "prehistory" means might assume that prehistory extends to include these events, since the subject presented by the outline is prehistory. The Transhumanist 21:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, good point!--CaroleHenson (talk) 02:03, 7 December 2011 (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 23:52, 8 August 2015 (UTC)