Talk:Outline of cell biology

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

The Transhumanist 01:18, 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 09:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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)

Purpose of lead section
The primary need for a lead description is for topic identification, so the reader knows what the page is about.

A short description is fine with me, as long as it accomplishes this goal.

The Transhumanist 19:59, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. It defines cell biology and has a link to the main article which outlines the whole topic. Perfect. What's your point? Verbal chat  20:02, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Different type of "outline". "Outline of" is short for "Hierarchical outline of", a type of tree structure, with benefits not provided by prose articles, such as relationship display, faster readability, and ease of navigation.  Topic names and their links are provided in a more coherent (hierarchical) arrangement, which makes them easier and faster to browse.  The Transhumanist 22:44, 8 July 2010 (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 00:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)