Draft talk:Outline of dogs

This article is an outline, a type of article that presents a list of articles or sub-topics related to its subject in a hierarchical form. For the standardized set of outlines on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines. Outlines are within the scope of WikiProject Outlines, a collaborative effort to improve outlines on Wikipedia. For guidance on building and maintaining outlines, see Wikipedia:Outlines.OutlinesWikipedia:WikiProject OutlinesTemplate:WikiProject OutlinesOutlines articles

Starting to edit

I'm starting to add to this page -- let me know if I've erred; I'm not all that familiar with outlines but I'm trying to follow the guidelines as closely as possible. — anndelion (talk) 18:29, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're doing great! Thank you for helping me :) There really aren't too many species articles out there... so I'm kind of creating what I think should be included and such. Thank goodness this is a draft page, hehe. cReep 03:40, 1 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CReep-cReep (talk • contribs) [reply]

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Brief explanation of Wikipedia outlines

Outlines on Wikipedia are a type of list article. Each outline is about the subject identified after "Outline of" in the title. "Outline" refers to the format of the article...

"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). In Wikipedia outlines, the hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets.

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). They also serve as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 12:58, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]