Talk:Outline of energy

Content questioned
The content of this article do not reflect the title. An "Energy directory" should list all sorts of energy. Futhermore, an article that only has links is inappropriate. It should be a category. But there is already categories like Category:Renewable energy. This whole article seems to be designed to push what one person thinks is good energy sources. Ultramarine 21:09, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

We have lots of other list articles: List of lists shows several thousand list articles. I would rename this "List of energy-related articles and categories" (small caps except for the first word, line with Wikistyle). I would also note that the list has links to OPEC and ExxonMobil, which are not generally considered to be "good energy sources" by people who are concerned about this kind of stuff. Ground Zero 15:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

The list of energy modalities is rather useless without some sort of categorization. no?--Deglr6328 18:56, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Why are internal links to this page accompanied by a picture? That seems entirely unnecessary. This is an article like many others. -Willmcw July 5, 2005 00:02 (UTC)

The title of this page should be more appropriatly "List of energy resources" Charlie 08:15, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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Merge with "Energy" Page ?
It seems to me that this page is essentially a subset of the Energy page - which note is itself just a big list. (Not to say that it is redundant - there is a lot here that isn't there).

Many of the topics on this page could fit into the sections already existing on that page (perhaps as subsections or sub-bullets). Particularly into the "Society" section though not exclusively.

Even the definition at the topic reads vaguely like the one on the Energy page.

Dhollm 19:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * See WP:LIST and WP:EIW for more information about list articles and when they are appropriate. The MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia has (at least) three independent and sometimes overlapping methods for navigation: links, lists, and categories. List of energy topics can contain many more links than might fit into the prose of an article like Energy. Also see WP:SIZE - we do not want an article like Energy to become "too large." List of energy topics can absorb large numbers of links that editors might otherwise try to add to the Energy article along with explanatory prose. --Teratornis (talk) 19:39, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Navigation templates
We could add several Energy templates to the bottom of List of energy topics, such as Bioenergy, Wind power, Peak oil, and others in Energy templates. Doing this would result in a big stack of hidden-by-default navigation box templates that users could expand by clicking their "show" links. I would like to add all suitable energy-related navigation templates to the bottom of the article, since this would add dozens of links to energy topics, and the links would grow as other users add more links to the templates, but I thought I would ask here first, to see if anyone objects. --Teratornis (talk) 19:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Since nobody objected, I added several navigation templates. --Teratornis (talk) 18:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Lead
The lead of this article is a cut and paste of the lead at Energy. This is a GFDL license violation and should be removed. Also, there is no consensus for the rename to "Outline of". Verbal chat  19:54, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

In my view, they disagree and this one is incorrect:

This page: "Energy – in physics, this is an indirectly observed quantity often understood as the ability of a physical system to do work on other physical systems."

Energy page: "In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object."

Exergy page: "In thermodynamics, the exergy of a system is the maximum useful work possible during a process that brings the system into equilibrium with a heat reservoir, reaching maximum entropy.[1] When the surroundings are the reservoir, exergy is the potential of a system to cause a change as it achieves equilibrium with its environment. Exergy is the energy that is available to be used."

This page reads more like the exergy definition. Wes Hermann (talk) 02:25, 25 April 2020 (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 00:05, 9 August 2015 (UTC)