Talk:Outline of cuisines

Re-established outline
A couple years ago, this outline was brought to AfD. It was agreed upon quite strongly there to merge the outline with List of cuisines, as long as the content of the outline was retained.

Well, I just looked over the list of cuisines, and the content of this outline was not retained.

But that's fine, because the List of cuisines is an item list, and the scope of outlines and the scope of item lists differ...

From Outlines:

"An item list is a list that names the members of a particular class of things, where the class is more specific than 'x topics' or 'x articles'."

"For example, Outline of sharks is all about sharks, not merely a list of them. Meanwhile, List of sharks is an item list, where the items listed are shark species. Outlines are more comprehensive, and deal with the entire subject."

Since the content of this outline has disappeared (been deleted) against the consensus of the AfD to merge, and there is much potential for expansion of this topic beyond types of cuisine, I've restored the outline. The Transhumanist 23:36, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Expansion underway
I've expanded the outline, including adding relevant sections and annotations. More is on the way. The Transhumanist 23:36, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Okay, it's been greatly expanded, with emphasis on the aspects of cuisine not covered by List of cuisines. The Transhumanist 01:50, 4 May 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 00:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)