Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/List of discussions concerning outlines

= Discussions prior to 2013 =

For earlier and other discussions, see the archives at:


 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines
 * Wikipedia talk:Contents/Outlines
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Contents
 * Wikipedia talk:Contents

Deletion discussions

 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics (Nov 2005) - delete (4 years before the Outline WikiProject started). Was resurrected in 2009 at Deletion Review, and has since been renamed to Outline of Islam
 * Articles for deletion/List of basic computer science topics (March 2006) - no consensus. Is now Outline of computer science.
 * Articles for deletion/List of basic visual arts and design topics (May 2006) - delete. Replaced by List of basic visual arts topics and List of basic design topics.
 * Articles for deletion/List of basic industrial topics (Aug 2006) - speedy keep
 * Articles for deletion/List of basic management topics (Aug 2006) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/List of basic Canada topics (March 2008) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/List of basic mining topics (Aug 2008) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Topic outline of algebra (Jan 2009) - keep (also nominated: Topic outline of arithmetic, Topic outline of calculus, Topic outline of geometry, Topic outline of mathematics)
 * Articles for deletion/Topic outline of Big Science (Jan 2009) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of South Africa (May 2009) - speedy keep
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Drafts/Outline of British Columbia (June 2009) - snow keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Palestine (July 2009) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of the South Island (August 2009) - delete. Already fully covered in Outline of New Zealand.
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of computer engineering (August 2009) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Texas history (October 2009) - delete. Resulted in the merge of all state history outlines into the corresponding state outlines (see Outline of Louisiana history, below).
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Louisiana history, and all state history outlines (October 2009) - Merge to parent article (Outline of state...). During the merge, each history outline was cleaned-up and expanded. They can be found in the history sections of the state outlines.
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (April 2010) - delete. Was mostly redlinks.
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of life extension (Mar 2010) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Google (July 2010) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of basketball, when the article was 4 days old and still under construction (October 2010) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Canada (November 2010) - keep all
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Northern Cyprus, and merge into 2 other outlines. (April 2011) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of relationships (June 2011) - withdrawn by nominator per improvements with the following comment: "It's nice to see that every once in a blue moon, people who say 'keep but improve' actually follow through on the 'improve' part."


 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Apple Inc. (April 2012) - keep (and withdrawn by nominator).
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of iOS (April 2012) - keep
 * Articles for deletion/History and branches of Judaism (May 2012) - redir (merge) into Outline of Judaism.

July 2009

 * move - move by Dbachmann of "Outline of Kosovo" to portal space (July 2009)
 * move - move by Dbachmann of "Outline of drawing" to portal space (July 2009)
 * move - move by Dbachmann of "Outline of Switzerland" to portal space (July 2009)
 * Talk:Outline of sharks (July 2009)
 * Talk:Outline (list) (July 2009) - moved by Dbachmann
 * Talk:Outline of the creation–evolution controversy (July 2009) - about naming
 * move - move by Dbachmann of "Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...?" to user space
 * move - move by Dbachmann of "Wikipedia:Comparison of Wikipedia's and Britannica's outlines of knowledge" to user space
 * move - move by Dbachmann of "Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...?" to user space

November 2007

 * Village pump (policy)/Archive 14 (Nov 2007)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 1 (Nov 2007)

January 2008

 * Move navigational lists to portal namespace - failed proposal (Jan–Mar 2008)

June 2008

 * Village pump (proposals)/Archive 28 (June 2008)

March 2009

 * User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 21 - Why not develop portals instead, Roux

May 2009

 * Talk:Switzerland/Archive 7 - Dbachmann
 * Outline of science converted to redirect by Dbachmann
 * Village pump (policy)/Archive 64 - Dbachmann
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Archive193 - Dbachmann
 * Village pump (proposals)/Archive 47 - Brandmeister
 * Wikipedia talk:Contents/Outlines/Archive 4 - Dbachmann

July 2009

 * User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 23 - Dbachmann
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive551 - Dbachmann
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3 - Abductive
 * Category:Outlines - Dbachmann
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 1 - Dbachmann
 * Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists/Archive 2 - Dbachmann
 * Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists/Archive 2 - Answer to Dbachman, The Transhumanist
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive551 - The Transhumanist (includes an excellent summary of outline issues by Quiddity).
 * Wikipedia talk:Why do we have outlines in addition to...? - Namespace debate, J Milburn
 * Outlines - Rant against them being in article space, Dbachmann
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3 - Minnecologies
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3 - Tiamut
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3 - DionysosProteus
 * User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 23 - Dbachmann
 * Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid/Archive 4 - concerning reverts by Nubiatech

October 2009

 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 2 - proposal to mark the Outline instructions as "Failed".
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 2 - retagged the page as an essay.
 * Village pump (policy)/Archive 68
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct
 * Articles for deletion/Outline of Louisiana history - nomination to delete a large group of outlines (Mass deletion proposal)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3 - Outline naming/renaming controversy, etc.
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3 - straw poll.
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3 - should outlines be developed by experts only? And namespace debate. RDBury
 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3 - should outlines be developed by experts only? Unionhawk


 * User talk:Karanacs/Outline RfC draft - discussion of a potential RfC, which was a de facto deletion proposal by raising the issue of whether or not outlines should exist. The proposer, declined to submit the RfC, and had the actual draft deleted.

February 2010

 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 4 - user marked the essay as failed, as if it was a proposal.

September 2010

 * Wikipedia talk:Contents/Archive 6

December 2010

 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Contents/Outlines – attempt to delete the list of outlines. Nominator mistook outlines to be similar to the concept in the rejected root articles proposal.

September 2011

 * Village pump (proposals)/Archive 78 – proposal to rename outlines which turned into a deletion debate. Overwhelming support for outlines, and some useful feedback.


 * Village pump (proposals)/Archive 78

October 2011
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 4 - Response to Monty845's Alternative Outline Articles guideline Proposal.

December 2011

 * User talk:SMcCandlish/Archive 62 – explanation of where the titles "Outline of" and "Index of" came from.

January 2012

 * User talk:Qwyrxian/Archive 26 – another explanation of where the titles "Outline of" and "Index of" came from.

= Article alerts log, started 2011 = The page transcluded here is WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts/Archive 1:

= Further discussions =

May 2018

 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines

June 2019

 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines

July 2019

 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines

September 2023

 * Wikipedia talk:Outlines &mdash; Uh, no.