Talk:Outline of biophysics

Requested move 26 July 2014

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Outline of biophysics → Biophysical techniques – The majority of incoming links to this page are through the biophysical techniques redirect. Kkmurray (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * Strong oppose this is not a biophysical techniques article. Rather that is just a section in this article. If you want to split this into two, then it is not a Move Request. I think WP:PM also handles proposed splits. There is much more than just techniques in this article. -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 08:47, 27 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Neutral, because I don't think either the name change or keeping the article as-is makes sense. The current title doesn't give any indication of why I am at Outline of biophysics rather than biophysics – after all, what is an encyclopedia article but an outline of its subject?  But if the article is not entirely about techniques as suggested above, then it can't be moved to the new title.  Why not cut-paste the relevant material from here into a new article on techniques, then merge the rest into the Biophysics article itself?  Or am I not understanding the purpose and scope of an "outline" article? -- SCZenz (talk) 11:16, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:OUTLINE describes what an "Outline of XYZ" page should look like; it's a type of list article. -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 11:52, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Oppose then, per RockMagnetist's comments below. -- SCZenz (talk) 18:54, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose - This page conforms to the style guide for outlines and is similar in structure to many other members of Category:Outlines. It is not even true that the majority of links come from Biophysical techniques. If only articles are considered, there are 5 links to each: see Pages that link to "Biophysical techniques" and Pages that link to "Outline of biophysics". RockMagnetist (talk) 15:39, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

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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 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)