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Discussions prior to 2013

For earlier and other discussions, see the archives at:

Deletion discussions

Wikipedia: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
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic computer science topics (March 2006) - no consensus. Is now Outline of computer science.
Wikipedia: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.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic industrial topics (Aug 2006) - speedy keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic management topics (Aug 2006) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic Canada topics (March 2008) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basic mining topics (Aug 2008) - keep
Wikipedia: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)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Topic outline of Big Science (Jan 2009) - keep
Wikipedia: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
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Palestine (July 2009) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of the South Island (August 2009) - delete. Already fully covered in Outline of New Zealand.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of computer engineering (August 2009) - keep
Wikipedia: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).
Wikipedia: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.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (April 2010) - delete. Was mostly redlinks.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of life extension (Mar 2010) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Google (July 2010) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of basketball, when the article was 4 days old and still under construction (October 2010) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Canada (November 2010) - keep all
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Northern Cyprus, and merge into 2 other outlines. (April 2011) - keep
Wikipedia: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."
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of Apple Inc. (April 2012) - keep (and withdrawn by nominator).
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of iOS (April 2012) - keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History and branches of Judaism (May 2012) - redir (merge) into Outline of Judaism.

Situations pertaining to specific articles === 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#Merge request Outline of sharks with Shark (July 2009)
Talk:Outline (list)#Objection to the move and to the merge (July 2009) - moved by Dbachmann
Talk:Outline of the creation–evolution controversy#Move to Outline (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

Debates and proposal discussions, etc.

November 2007

January 2008

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

June 2008

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 28#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines" (June 2008)

March 2009

User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 21#Question copied from Juliancolton's page - Why not develop portals instead, Roux

May 2009

July 2009

User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 23#URGENT: User:Dbachmann - Dbachmann
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive551#"Outlines" - Dbachmann
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Please consider this: you might be wrong - Abductive
Category:Outlines - Dbachmann
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 1#move this out of main namespace please - Dbachmann
Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists/Archive 2#sneak addition of various other "types of lists" - Dbachmann
Wikipedia talk:Stand-alone lists/Archive 2#Outlines and indexes have been included since the beginning; and a proposal - Answer to Dbachman, The Transhumanist
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive551#Dbachmann: Underhanded tactics and false accusations - The Transhumanist (includes an excellent summary of outline issues by Quiddity).
Wikipedia talk:Why do we have outlines in addition to...?#I'm still not seeing it... - Namespace debate, J Milburn
Outlines - Rant against them being in article space, Dbachmann
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Ultimate project goals - Minnecologies
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Utility of outlines to wikiprojects - Tiamut
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines/Archive 3#Hatnotes to outlines - DionysosProteus
User talk:The Transhumanist/Archive 23#User essays - Dbachmann
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid/Archive 4#Local bias - concerning reverts by Nubiatech

October 2009

Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 2#Failed? - proposal to mark the Outline instructions as "Failed".
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 2#It's not a proposal, but an essay - retagged the page as an essay.
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 68#Another "OOKers" vs "listers" skirmish
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct#List of X topics vs Outline of X
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2009/Oct#Outlines in general and List of logic topics
Wikipedia: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#The status and potential of outlines
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#Discussing issues - Outline naming/renaming controversy, etc.
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#Should articles named "Outline of x" be renamed to "List of x topics"? - straw poll.
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#Ownership and expert input - should outlines be developed by experts only? And namespace debate. RDBury
Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 3#My 0.02 - 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#Failed - user marked the essay as failed, as if it was a proposal.

September 2010

Wikipedia talk:Contents/Archive 6#Proposal to restore Outlines entry and keep "Outlines" on this portal's menu templates

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

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 78#RfC: Elimination of outline articles – proposal to rename outlines which turned into a deletion debate. Overwhelming support for outlines, and some useful feedback.
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 78#Alternative Outline Articles Proposal

October 2011

Wikipedia talk:Outlines/Archive 4#Merged guideline draft into the existing essay - Response to Monty845's Alternative Outline Articles guideline Proposal.

Related discussions === December 2011 =

User talk:SMcCandlish/Archive 62#The topics lists mess – explanation of where the titles "Outline of" and "Index of" came from.

January 2012

User talk:Qwyrxian/Archive 26#General topics lists and the naming schism – another explanation of where the titles "Outline of" and "Index of" came from.

Article alerts log, started 2011

The page transcluded here is Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts/Archive 1:

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Further discussions

May 2018

Wikipedia talk:Outlines#What type of thing is X

June 2019

Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Do outlines absolutely need to have references

July 2019

Wikipedia talk:Outlines#At what size should statement-lacking-outlines be converted into templates?

September 2023

Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Deprecation of outlines? — Uh, no.

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