The Wikiproject about it is quite new. The way I see it, topic outlines are more of a topical glossary that lack the subcategorizing that a regular category would have. They could be of some use.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote: From: Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] VfD against every article in Category.Outlines that is also in namespace 0? (aka: please stop writing another perverted encyclopedia inside wikipedia) To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 2:32 PM
This apparently was originally [[List of basic topics]] and its children, and the rename to Outlines was done by [[User:The Transhumanist]]. [[List of basic topics]] dates to 2001 and was started by Larry Sanger, so this is not a new thing.
-Matt
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
I recently came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Outlines and it took me a while to realize the full extend of this desaster. Some part of en.wp's authors is duplicating Wikipedia, this time without text.
For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_outline_of_Algeria is a list of articles somehow related to Algeria. This purpose is better served by either [[:en:Algeria]] (with full sentences) or by [[:en:Category:Algeria]] (with proper software, without full sentences).
My recommendation would be to delete them on sight. Given the situation at en.wp, this is better done with a formal VfD, triple-signed by someone else and already attached objections and specialized templates for revision and arbitration, right?
Mathias
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