Talk:Outline of history

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Untitled[edit]

Put this back in when the redirect is removed or article appears there ...

For a more comprehensive list, see the List of history topics.

J. D. Redding 02:22, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History by field[edit]

The history by field section follows the structure and classification system used on the Lists of basic topics page, and provides a history link (leave the redlinks in place) for every basic list subject. --The Transhumanist 22:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Liberty Libertyjohnson2 (talk) 21:41, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Basic Libertyjohnson2 (talk) 21:42, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Basic history concepts section[edit]

I've pruned and alphabetised the 'Basic history concepts' section. The stuff I removed was un-historical topics such as the Big Bang, Evolution, geological time periods, and the like, which are to do with the past, but not really history. If no-one objects, I'm going to remove the one-line definitions of the terms, since they are all linked to articles, and make the section into a 2- or 3-column list. Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 19:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's better. Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 13:06, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines"[edit]

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".

The Transhumanist 05:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to[edit]

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Guidelines for outlines[edit]

Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "History of" section needs links![edit]

Please add some relevant links to the history section.

Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates. Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 00:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Forked content[edit]

@The Transhumanist: There's still a lot of redundant content here: many of the sections in this outline could be replaced with excerpts from the history sections of other outlines. Jarble (talk) 00:45, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jarble: Excellent idea. Beware of situations where you have to use inclusion control (noinclude, includeonly, and onlyinclude markup) on source pages, as it's highly suseptable to damage by others' editing. See also: Help:Transclusion#Standard section transclusion. — The Transhumanist 18:03, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Essence of History: Causality[edit]

Has any thought been given to including Causality as a significant component of the Essence of History? Chronology may be the most important component of history, but associating past events to a later events, and explaining the connectivity of one or more past events to one or more subsequent events seems critical to understanding the relevance of history. Feedback or thoughts on the matter would be appreciated. OvertAnalyzer (talk) 00:09, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]