Talk:Outline of Tennessee

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The contents of this list I consider as potentially very useful to outline the state, that's why I assigned the mid priority rating to it. However, it needs to be adjusted to the needs of the state of Tennessee. There are sections that I would like to cut out immediately. Starting with the landforms. TN is usually devided in west, mid, and east TN. I am not so sure if it makes sense to include northeastern(NE)/northwestern(NW) TN and southeastern(SE)/southwestern(SW) TN in the list. Due to the shape of the state it might be more appropriate to take care of the NE and NW as well as SE and SW in the appropriate article about west or east TN. If devided too deeply and the list providing red links, that might encourage articles that are potentially not helpful because they construct a division of the state that is not usually used. doxTxob \ ^talk 00:28, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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"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 00:01, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]