Talk:Outline of MySQL

Contested speedy deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... it's a Wikipedia Outline, a member of the set of Portal:Contents/Outlines, one of the navigation systems of Wikipedia. It isn't subject to speedy deletion due to redundancy. It is also a topic list, subject to WP:LIST and WP:STAND -- all lists being part of Wikipedia's navigation system. All outlines share the scope of the article on their base subject. For example see Outline of geology, Outline of chess, Outline of Japan, etc. Outlines comprehensively list topics on the base subject, and usually go far beyond the scope of the base prose article by listing everything Wikipedia has on the subject. They are part of Wikipedia's navigation system. The Transhumanist 02:44, 6 June 2015 (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 23:58, 8 August 2015 (UTC)