Talk:Outline of Oregon

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	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
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	Oregon portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Oregon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Oregon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OregonWikipedia:WikiProject OregonTemplate:WikiProject OregonOregon articles
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What's the point of this?[edit]

What's the point of this? Is this under the purview of a U.S. WikiProject? I'd like to see a discussion of why this is useful. It seems to me this is another unencyclopedic repeat of List of Oregon-related topics, which seems to the the pet project of a single Wikipedia editor. What is our categorization scheme for if not to provide the same navigation as this article provides? It is also somewhat redundant to Portal:Oregon. Also, is there a precedent for "outline" articles? Because this is a "list" article and the title should reflect that. Katr67 (talk) 23:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seems redundent to me. Everything on that list should be in the article for Oregon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryoga-2003 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 00:07, 13 March 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 23:59, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]