Talk:Outline of fishing

This outline is out of date
This outline is already years out of date. It seems to be based on some outdated topic list that hasn't been updated for years. For example the list on traditional fishing boats has 24 articles, whereas it should list 40 articles, and does not include the main article, traditional fishing boats, which was written since the original topic list was written. The project is also restructured a little differently these days, and includes whole topic areas that didn't exist at the time that original topic list was drawn up. It would be better to rely instead on the fishing navigation templates for structuring the outline, since these reflect the current state of the project. --Epipelagic (talk) 20:56, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that was extraordinarily helpful. I had no idea there were so many templates on fishing. Not sure when it will get done, but it's on my list.Marikafragen (talk) 19:19, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you Epipelagic, for the heads up. There was way too much to handle in one outline.  So far, we have:
 * Outline of fish
 * Outline of the fishing industry
 * Outline of fishing
 * Outline of fisheries
 * Of the templates you pointed out, I've added the links from Template:Fishing history to Outline of fishing. The Transhumanist 20:41, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * There are a number of new templates at the link I gave above for different fish groups, such as carp, cod, eel, herring, mackerel, salmon, sardines and tuna. These are relevant particularly to Outline of fish, but also to fish as food. There is another new seafood template which could form the basis for an "Outline of seafood" by adding all the "As food" groups from the aforementioned templates on fish groups. As an aside, it would be really nice if it was possible to flag template groups in such a way that whenever changes were made to them, the relevant section in an associated outline was automatically updated by a bot. --Epipelagic (talk) 21:19, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I updated large parts of the outline and added annotations. I may want to take some out... (like the chunk on fisheries, since it now has its own).Marikafragen (talk) 00:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hm. Epipelagic, that's a good idea, but I'm not sure how we'd update the annotations with a bot (bots aren't nearly intelligent enough just yet), unless every article had a "definition" tag somewhere in it (part of the semantic web idea, just not here yet). Transcluding the templates' contents... hm. Wouldn't quite work the way it stands, but something to think about.Marikafragen (talk) 00:25, 26 May 2012 (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 00:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)