Talk:Outline of the United States/Archive 1

Statistics
It's interesting to compare what we have with the stats of what readers are looking for. I just checked the stats for page hits in Feb 2008. Filtering out the non-USA topics like Canine reproduction (a monster hit from mid Feb) we have the following. If nothing else, I suggest that you add Lost to the list of basic USA topics. :) Colonel Warden (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

6 Barack Obama 10 John McCain 13 United States 14 Chinese New Year 16 Deaths in 2008 18 Cloverfield 29 YouTube 32 Lost (TV series) 34 2 Girls 1 Cup 35 MySpace 37 World War II 39 Super Smash Bros. Brawl 40 List of songs in Rock Band 41 Miley Cyrus 46 Global warming 48 Lost (TV series) 49 Internet Movie Database 50 Abraham Lincoln 55 Super Bowl XLII 60 New York City 61 Superdelegate 62 George W. Bush 64 Facebook 66 Scientology 67 World War I 70 80th Academy Awards 74 Hotmail 75 Obama 79 Britney Spears 81 Hannah Montana 82 Hillary Clinton 83 United States presidential election, 2008 85 There Will Be Blood 87 Lost 88 Super Tuesday 90 Michael Jackson 95 Waterboarding 99 Ronald Reagan 100 Lost (season 4)

incorporated organized territories
... simply says "none since 1959", can a reference explaining that be placed there? Just a link to the territory that was up til '59 or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.60.99.192 (talk) 06:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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

The Transhumanist 00:50, 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 09:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Tips for developing country outlines
Instructions for developing country outlines is located at Outlines (while that section is complete, the page is a draft, and will be moved to the Wikipedia namespace when completed). The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

A note concerning redlinks...
Many of the entries (and their links) are standard across all of the country outlines, to aid readers, especially young readers, in comparing countries to each other.

So if this country doesn't have any of a particular entry, like navies, please don't delete the entry. Instead, complete it with "none" (and a brief explanation as to why, for example, "- x is a landlocked country with no ports"). If the explanation exists in an article on Wikipedia, then click on the redlink and create a redirect to that location. See Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section.

Standard redlinks (article names) were also chosen based on how country coverage tipically expands. This makes the standard names for these subtopics widely available and easily accessible. So please do not remove those redlinks, for they will turn blue eventually. In the meantime, they can be redirected to the section of whatever article has the relevant information, if any. See Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: To discuss the standard design of the country outlines, or of outlines in general, do so on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject talk page.

Guidelines for outlines
Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please check and fix the government section
The government section needs to be checked for accuracy. The initial data placed in the government branches sections was generated by template, and the data didn't fit all countries.

So those sections need to be looked over, and fixed if needed.

Please help.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: If you'd like to help out with other tasks concerning Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, please drop me a note on my talk page.

Raison d'etre
I had hoped that outlines would enforce some kind of structure on the rest of us where articles tend to grow out of control sometimes. I guess they are just to ensure that readers can come from the top and get to something down the way that was already there.

In US Education we could use a structure at the high level. On a topic unrelated to the US, we desperately need a structure which currently goes down... and loops back on itself! But without Structure Police, we may be sunk! And where is a cop when you need one? ;)  Student7 (talk) 11:56, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Infobox template
What's stopping us from making the infobox for this page into its own template (something like Template:United States infobox) where this template contains all the info of the Infobox Country used currently, but transcluded in? That will make the raw size of the article smaller, and allow for usage elsewhere. Specifically, I'd like to see it added to Outline of the United States which currently looks drab because of haphazard placements of images in its lead. I think an infobox is an outline itself, and would add greatly to that article. Just a thought. Others? This question was also rasied at Talk:United States; please respond there rather than here to keep discussion in one location.  wadester 16  04:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)