Talk:Outline of Library of Congress Classification
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Straw poll and discussion concerning what outlines should be called
[edit]A discussion is underway that may affect the name of this article.
See: Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Should articles named "Outline of x" be renamed to "List of x topics"?
The Transhumanist 04:50, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
[edit]"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 Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 23:57, 8 August 2015 (UTC)