Talk:Outline of the fishing industry

This outline is out of date
Like Outline of fishing, this outline is years out of date. It seems to be based on some outdated topic list that hasn't been updated for years.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)

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 00:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)