Talk:Outline of Oregon

What's the point of this?
What's the point of this? Is this under the purview of a U.S. WikiProject? I'd like to see a discussion of why this is useful. It seems to me this is another unencyclopedic repeat of List of Oregon-related topics, which seems to the the pet project of a single Wikipedia editor. What is our categorization scheme for if not to provide the same navigation as this article provides? It is also somewhat redundant to Portal:Oregon. Also, is there a precedent for "outline" articles? Because this is a "list" article and the title should reflect that. Katr67 (talk) 23:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Seems redundent to me. Everything on that list should be in the article for Oregon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryoga-2003 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's part of WikiProject Outline of knowledge. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 00:07, 13 March 2009 (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 23:59, 8 August 2015 (UTC)