Talk:Outline of probability

Merge proposal
A proposal to merge this into List of probability topics was added 5 December 2009 by "Verbal", who also renamed this from "Outline of ...." with no regard to the existence of the Wikiproject at WP:WPOOK. No justification for the supposed merge was given. Melcombe (talk) 11:05, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Against. Let's keep this as a useful overview of basic topics. A long list of largely irrelevant article titles, while useful for other things, is not particularly helpful for this. Melcombe (talk) 11:05, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I am removing the merge templates as there has been no support. Melcombe (talk) 11:38, 11 August 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 00:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)