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 <mor...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Matthew Brown <mor...@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.schind...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
